Kwak Tube, Lee Na-eun's advocacy controversy..Ministry of Education Disclosure of Public Interest Advertisements for 'Prevention of Crimes'

Sep 17, 2024

Kwak Tube, Lee Na-eun's advocacy controversy..Ministry of Education Disclosure of Public Interest Advertisements for 'Prevention of Crimes'
While YouTuber Kwak Tube, who has 2.12 million subscribers, apologized in the face of headwinds while covering Lee Na-eun for the 「School Violence Controversy」, the Ministry of Education's public interest advertisement video for school violence prevention starring Kwak Tube was also closed to the public.

On the morning of the 17th, a public interest advertisement video for school violence prevention involving Kwak Tube was recently turned private on YouTube channel 'Education TV'. It has been only a day since Kwak Tube posted a video defending Lee Na-eun.

On the 16th, Kwak Tube posted a video titled 'Wak Tube' on his YouTube channel 'Wak Tube'. The video contains contents of Lee Na-eun from April and a trip to Rome, Italy.

Kwak Tube, Lee Na-eun's advocacy controversy..Ministry of Education Disclosure of Public Interest Advertisements for 'Prevention of Crimes'
Kwak Tube in the video said to Lee Na Eun, "I'm sorry for the misunderstanding"I blocked you because I was sensitive to school violence, but I was so sorry to see the explanation article later.", he apologized.

In response, Lee Na-eun "I was a little upset that there were so many people who really misunderstood me like that and blocked me. So I was very sad. "I really met the person who blocked me, and I really liked him. My personality fits me well and I liked it so much as a YouTuber. Now I understand."

Kwak Tube "There are a lot of articles, but I found out about the explanation later. Didn't I become famous, too. I thought people only looked at the issue. When I see you, I'm very young, but I feel sorry for you, so I thought I should make it fun. I thought you wouldn't travel with me, but I'm grateful that you did."

When the video was released, netizens voiced criticism, saying Kwak Tube, a victim of a school violence, defended Lee Na-eun, whose alleged bullying of members has not been completely resolved.

Lee Na-eun was embroiled in allegations that she collectively bullied member Lee Hyun-joo during her group April activities in 2012. At the time, Lee Hyun-joo's younger brother revealed through an online community that Lee Hyun-joo left the team after being constantly bullied within April. At the same time, Lee Hyun-joo's younger brother claimed that Lee Hyun-joo was bullied to the extent that he even made an extreme choice. In the end, Lee Na-eun dropped out of SBS 'Model Taxi', which was filming.

Since then, DSP Media, which was an agency with Lee Na-eun and other members, has sued Lee Hyun-joo, Lee Hyun-joo's younger brother and friends for defamation, but all have been cleared of charges. The prosecution's judgment at the time was that "Lee Hyun-joo was suffering from bullying in the group and that there were tumblers and shoe incidents during April's activities, and the complainant admits that such facts were also true. The problematic content of the article written by the suspect is not a false fact as it does not deviate much from the main facts of the complainant and Lee Hyun-joo's life together in April" contains the content.

As criticism flooded in, Kwak Tube closed the video and apologized.

On the same day, Kwak Tube wrote on his YouTube channel community, `There were parts of this video that I missed without thinking deeply. I'll think deeply so that my personal feelings don't become everyone's position, he said, bending his head down. In addition, "We will pay more attention to content production in the future. I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused to you watching the video," he added.



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