A district court in Seoul has convicted a Brazilian woman of stalking BTS member Jungkook, sentencing her to a one-year prison term that was suspended for two years. The woman, whose name does not appear in court records, now faces deportation from South Korea unless an appeal succeeds.
The court detailed a pattern of conduct that stretched across roughly two months. On 7 December, she turned up at the singer’s Seoul residence for the first time, lingering near the property, tossing objects over the wall, and pushing letters through openings in the door. A return visit days later saw her press the doorbell 133 times — behavior the judge described as showing an “extreme level of obsession”.
Authorities detained her on 13 December after she slipped through a side gate by following a food delivery worker onto the grounds. She was let go the following day with an instruction to keep away, which she disregarded.
By the court’s count, she made her way to the home about 22 times in all. The pattern began in December last year, when she also attempted to drop off letters and photographs at his door, describing the gesture as something done “out of love” for the 28-year-old singer.
Police responded by imposing an emergency order barring her from coming within 100 metres of the residence. When the visits did not stop, the case was passed to prosecutors in February.
In handing down the ruling, the judge pointed to mitigating considerations, among them an assessment that her likelihood of offending again was “not significant”.
The case is not the first security scare at the property. A Chinese woman in her 30s was taken into custody in Seoul in June last year after attempting to force her way into the same home, only hours after Jungkook finished his mandatory military service.
