Man Booked for Spreading Online Rumors About Singer

Police in Incheon are investigating a 51-year-old man on charges of spreading malicious and libelous online comments about singer Jang Yoon-jung.

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The man, identified as Song, is accused of posting 29 libelous comments from April 6 to 29 on the website dedicated to the trot singer which he runs.

Among other things he claimed that Jang sought to put her mother in a mental asylum or that she abandoned her mother to marry a TV presenter.

Jang's dysfunctional family publicly fell out over claims that her mother and brother bankrupted her by mismanaging her money. In an emotional TV appearance in early May, she also said her father filed for divorce early this year.

Jang filed the libel complaint against the man on May 25.

a police officer said Song got to know Jang's mother while running his fan website and confessed to posting comments on the website based on what he heard from the woman.