The suspects reportedly admitted to\u00a0purchasing the address through social media\u00a0and visiting the location, but they denied actually entering the dormitory.<\/p>\n
\n Boy band Cortis members are seen at Incheon International Airport on June 19.
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Two Chinese women were arrested after allegedly breaking into boy band Cortis\u2019s dormitory, police announced on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Yongsan Police Precinct booked the two on suspicion of trespassing.<\/p>\n
The women reportedly entered Cortis\u2019s dormitory in Yongsan District, central Seoul, at around 2 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The group\u2019s manager discovered that a package left outside the dormitory had been opened and the front door was left ajar and promptly called the police. Officers arrived at the scene and arrested the women.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe purchased the dormitory\u2019s address through social media and went [to the building],\u201d the women allegedly told police. However, they denied opening the package or entering the dormitory.<\/p>\n
Police are investigating the exact circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n
Cortis debuted last August as BigHit Music\u2019s first idol group in six years.<\/p>\n
BY KIM JI-HYE [lim.jeongwon@joongang.co.kr]<\/p>\n
This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspects reportedly admitted to\u00a0purchasing the address through social media\u00a0and visiting the location, but they denied actually entering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-559121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}