SEOUL — A South Korean woman who demanded money from national team captain and Major League Football player Son Heung-min claiming she was pregnant with his child was sentenced to four years in jail on Monday (Dec 8) for extortion, Yonhap news agency reported.

A woman in her 20s known by her surname Yang was indicted earlier this year for threatening to make her pregnancy public and receiving 300 million won (S$264,780) in return for her silence, after which she tried to get a further 70 million won.