K-pop star sentenced to three years in prostitution case

Seungri, a former member of a popular K-pop boy band Big Bang, arrives at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (Ahn Young-joon/AP)

A South Korean military court sentenced disgraced K-pop star Seungri to three years in prison on Thursday for crimes including providing prostitutes to foreign businessmen.

The Defence Ministry said the former member of the boy band Big Bang was also fined 1.15 billion won (£713,000). He was taken into custody after the ruling by an army court in Yongin, near Seoul.