Starting in 2009, a taxi driver set up a camera and wireless equipment in his car and started to do live broadcasts of his passengers. The driver would give advice to his passengers and even sing along with them while the camera fed everything live to the internet.
As luck would have it, the 'taxi reporter' caught a lot of attention when IU happened to enter his cab and sang a song in July, 2010.
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He appeared on SBS's 'Dalgona' in June 2011 to tell about this run-in with IU. He said, "I didn't know it was IU who had entered the taxi and asked her to sing IU and Seulong's 'Nagging,' only then to find out my passenger was IU. I was very surprised and felt like I had won the lottery."
Afterwards, he received an invitation to IU's concert and even appeared on KBS2's 'Quiz Show.'
However, two people filed a lawsuit against the taxi driver due to suspicions he was violating the Protection of Communications Secrets Act for filming without his passenger's prior consent.
They said, "Since he asked about our jobs and marriage plans, we only replied, but he had broadcast everything without our consent. I didn't know he was doing a live broadcast until I left the car."
In response, the taxi driver said, "Regardless of whether it was wrong that I didn't tell them beforehand, the content was not stored as it was a live broadcast and some parts of the content were not delivered because the internet connection got disconnected."
However, on September 23, a judge of Seoul Northern District Court gave him probation for 2 years and a suspension of qualifications for 6 months (meaning he can't work as a taxi driver for the allotted time) for releasing the conversations without permission.
He is currently denying guilt and appealing the decision.
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