SEOUL, July 10 -- A South Korean court has sentenced Taeil, a former member of the K-pop boy band NCT, to three and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of committing a sexual offence.

According to the Yonhap News Agency, the Seoul Central District Court delivered the sentence to the 31-year-old yesterday and ordered his immediate detention.

Two other men involved in the same case were reportedly handed identical sentences and also taken into custody.

The three were charged in March for sexually assaulting an intoxicated foreign woman in Seoul in June last year.

They had initially been indicted without detention.

In addition to the prison terms, the court reportedly instructed all three to complete 40 hours of a sexual vio...