A college student in South Korea has been sentenced to 6 months in prison after he was caught blackmailing BoA and SM Entertainment over BoA's private pictures and email exchange with Danny Ahn, a member of now-disbanded boyband g.o.d.

According to NoCut News, the pictures and emails in question come from BoA's personal webpage, which was hacked by the blackmailer.

He reportedly demanded 35 million Korean won (approximately US$38,000) initially, but even after SM Entertainment paid the asked amount he demanded further 65 million won, at which point SM Entertainment reported the case to the police.

In a press release, SM Entertainment claimed that the blackmailer threatened to spread the pictures around the internet with false stories behind it, which would have gravely damaged BoA's image.

Credits: ZZOOzzoo(BoAjjang.com)

When will people ever learn that blackmailers always demand more money. Once they realize that you're cooperating with them they use that to their advantage and the demand gets higher and higher as you can see it went from 35 to 65. They should have called the police to begin with.. I for one though would love to see the pictures xD. And also if I were the blackmailer I would have asked for a million (US Dollars) on the first demand..

wat a loser

...Lunatics -__- They have no life whatsoever..

foolish kid, doesn't think about the consequences.

wow, those guys who paid the money aint too smart, and i agree that they shuldnt have paid the monye and shulda just called the police, they just lost alot of money, damn that sucks fro them, heh. maybe they'll learn next time.

it was smart of them to finally go to the police or else that guy would probably keep asking for money.. sigh ppl these days would do anything for money

good to him, better punish like that so it will not happen again im sure he'll learn his lesson now.