Scrooge Sul, a bar on the Hill in Boulder, lost its liquor license Monday night after admitting to code violations in the wake of a . Now, the owner can’t get another liquor license for 10 years.
Last month, Boulder police said detectives were investigating after multiple underage women reported they were sexually assaulted and possibly drugged at Scrooge Sul at 1149 13th St.. That same week, Boulder’s accused the business and its owner, Min-kyu Kim, of serving alcohol to underage people, failing to keep the business orderly and altering the business against its license, according to the request for the hearing.
Instead of going through with a full hearing, Kim voluntarily surrendered his license, and he and the authority agreed that Kim would be barred from getting another one in Colorado for 10 years, according to Licensing Manager Alisa Darrow and the .
The licensing authority agreed unanimously to the stipulations, Darrow wrote in an email.
As part of the agreement, Kim agreed to acknowledge having violated the city code requiring a business to be kept orderly and creating a dance floor in the business against its license, but did not admit to serving underage people any alcohol.
Kim had been accused of at least 17 instances of serving underage people alcohol between Oct. 4, 2025, and Feb. 7, according to a show cause affidavit attached to the from Monday night.
Police also said Scrooge Sul was reorganized at least three times to clear the furniture for a dance floor, which the bar was not licensed to do and that it admitted numerous underage people into the bar, according to the affidavit.
During one of the 74 calls police took at the bar between March 1, 2025, and March 11, 2026, police found that the ID scanner Scrooge Sul was using to check if people were old enough to enter the bar was not being used correctly and admitted everyone — including those with fake IDs — despite reports of underage bargoers, the affidavit states. Police said Kim was aware of the issue but did not do anything to fix it.
In a written response giving up his license, Kim denied any accusations of sexual assault, drugging and serving alcohol to underage people. He also said the business’s ID scanner was functional and had been used correctly.
“I do not understand why the functionality of the scanner is being questioned only now,” Kim wrote. “If the police had concerns about the scanner’s quality, they should have notified us during their numerous visits over the past year.”
Police reportedly told Kim of the issues with the ID scanner on Dec. 31, according to the affidavit.
Kim’s attorney, Veronica L. Vecchio, did not return a call requesting comment by publication time.
The Boulder police investigation into allegations of drugging or sexual assault remains ongoing, according to spokesperson Dionne Waugh.
Detectives believe there could be other victims or witnesses, according to the . Police asked anyone who may have witnessed or been a victim of suspected drugging, sexual assault or “other alarming behavior” to contact Detective Andrea Tuck at 720-854-8823 or TuckA@bouldercolorado.gov and reference case number 26-01803.
