Sisters of minor actors who were sexually assaulted by 12 people died... Police killed her daughter

By Wooju, Lee

Jul 22, 2025

Sisters of minor actors who were sexually assaulted by 12 people died... Police killed her daughter



The mother of the late actor Yang So-ra, who played a minor role in "Smoking Gun", has revealed the truth about the sister's case.

KBS2 'Smoking Gun', which aired on the 22nd, dealt with the death of a single actress sister.

In 2004, Yang So-jeong, a woman in her 20s, ran barefoot into the police station. Yang So-jung claimed "I was assaulted with my mother." Yang So-jeong and her mother were assaulted by Yang So-jeong's biological sister, Yang So-ra. The mother said her eldest daughter would kill her younger brother and rip her nose off. Both of them were knocked out of steam. I thought I was going to die, so I opened the gate and asked my younger daughter to report it to the police."




The mother said "My eldest daughter took off all her clothes and went back and forth through the house, took out the tray and just cut it with a kitchen knife. He shouted 'You have to kill him'. I'm a daughter, but I was so scared."

Yang So-ra, whom her mother remembers, was a calm and good daughter who only knew about studying. But my mother said "I was in graduate school, and from that summer I became a completely different person." What happened to her bright and sincere daughter.

Sisters of minor actors who were sexually assaulted by 12 people died... Police killed her daughter
Yang So-ra received a part-time job offer from her younger brother Yang So-jung, who dreamed of becoming a celebrity, and went to film together. Yang So-jung and Yang So-ra, who went down to Hadong, Gyeongsangnam-do, the filming location of the drama, but Yang So-ra has changed since she started working part-time. Yang So-ra, who was hospitalized in a mental hospital, said the class president sexually harassed her on the set of Hadong. Even after coming to Seoul, the class president called Yang So-ra for a dinner and drank with her. The class president took Yang So-ra, who was drunk, to a video room and sexually assaulted her. Since then, she has sexually assaulted her at a guest house or motel at the filming location, and when Yang So-ra rebelled, she threatened to hurt her face with a knife. Yang So-ra stated that she had been sexually assaulted six times in two months by the class president and was sexually harassed during a break in the middle of filming and on a bus on the way.




But this wasn't the end. Yang So-ra later claimed that the three class leaders took turns sexually assaulting and molesting. One of them even took Yang So-ra's cell phone and imprisoned her for three days.

After learning about this late, the mother persuaded Yang So-ra and submitted a complaint to the police. As many as 12 perpetrators were sued by Yang So-ra. Yang So-ra sexually assaulted four people and sued eight people for sexual harassment, all of whom were assistants and staff. Yang So-ra claimed that 12 people had been raped and forcibly molested 40 times in three months. However, the perpetrators denied their allegations and even threatened Yang So-ra.

However, in two years, Yang So-ra dropped all charges against the perpetrators. The reason was that I couldn't bear to remember events in the process of being questioned by the police. Afterwards, Yang So-ra regained stability with her family.




Sisters of minor actors who were sexually assaulted by 12 people died... Police killed her daughter
But three years after dropping the charges, Yang ended her life on her own in an 18-story building. Mother "I didn't even cry at first. But not everyone dies just because they are sexually assaulted, right. I think it was the police who killed my daughter."

When my mother first visited the police station, she packed a bunch of notes and recorded tapes written by Sora and took them with her. But the police said 'Do you think this can be a case?' Then he claimed to Sora that he should forget everything and adjust to society. Since then, the investigator in charge has changed, but the investigation process has been nothing short of a second offense. Even the investigator told Yang So-ra to draw the perpetrator's genitalia. Upon hearing this, Lee Ji-hye expressed anger, saying, `It's so absurd and terrible.' My mother said, "It's an investigation process, so I thought I'll just have to wait a little longer, but I regret having endured it like that."```.

Six days after Yang So-ra's death, Yang So-jung, Yang's younger brother, also passed away. The mother blamed herself for introducing her to a part-time job as an assistant and that this happened to her sister. My sister left and kept drying up without eating." The father, who collapsed after learning of his eldest daughter's sexual assault, also died of cerebral hemorrhage after the sisters left. Mother "When I came to my senses, it had been four years. I have to tell you the truth for my daughters I made up my mind" he said.



wjlee@sportschosun.com