Song Min-ho Faces Investigation Over Alleged Poor Military Service
Dec 23, 2024
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Winner's Song Min-ho was released from the call-up on the 23rd amid controversy over poor military service. Currently, the police are conducting an internal investigation into Song Min-ho's poor service, leading netizens to argue about the possibility of re-entry or extended service.
On the 23rd, Dispatch issued an additional report on Song Min-ho's poor military service.
He revealed informative interviews with two officials from the Mapo Facilities Management Corporation, who were first assigned after being diagnosed as a fourth-grade supplementary service in a physical examination of the conscription, and secured witness testimony that Song Min-ho did little work and did not go to work during his one-and-nine-month service as a social service worker.
Fellow social service personnel who served at the Mapo Facilities Management Corporation along with Song Min-ho claimed that Song Min-ho did not go to work properly and received celebrity preferential treatment such as adjusting working hours and excluding work. According to them, Song Min-ho was considered to go to work at 10 a.m., not to work at 9 a.m., was often not followed, and claimed that he did not come home for lunch, and that he had to leave work at 7 p.m., but arrived at around 5:50 p.m. and left early at 6 p.m.
Witnesses also expressed doubts about Song Min-ho's antipersonality.
"Other social service workers draw administrative bills and go to the post office. But Song Min-ho didn't even do this task. "Attention? But how do you smoke...," he asked back.
The reason is "Right next to the company's office is the largest discount store for food materials in Sangam-dong. It's very crowded. Song Min-ho smokes in the opposite parking lot for the disabled at Daenong Mart. There are so many people going back and forth...," he said, referring to interpersonal sclerosis, which heals when smoking.
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Legal experts judge that even if Song Min-ho's poor work is recognized, there is no possibility of re-entry as Psy.
Like social service personnel, 'professional research personnel' and 'industrial technical personnel' who are classified as supplementary service personnel can be enlisted as active duty soldiers if they do not serve faithfully, such as not going to work for no reason. According to the enforcement decree, if you are absent without permission for more than eight days, the head of the local military agency in charge can cancel the transfer of professional research personnel and industrial technical personnel and enlist them as active duty soldiers or call them up as social service personnel.
Singers Psy and Cheon Myung-hoon, who were suspected of being "insolvent service" in the past, were re-serving as active-duty soldiers and public service personnel (currently social service personnel), respectively, because they were serving as industrial functional personnel.
In the case of Song Min-ho, it may violate the Military Manpower Administration's 'prohibited acts and penalties of social service personnel'. According to this, those who leave service for more than 8 days in total will be accused by an investigative agency and will be sentenced to up to 3 years in prison under the Military Service Act. Out of service means 'not to go to work without justifiable reasons or to not serve in the field', which is different from 'absence' who cannot go to work with the permission of the head of the service agency. Departure from service within 7 days in total is processed to extend five times the number of days of departure.
After the accusation, the service will be suspended if the social service worker is arrested or sentenced except for probation or suspended sentence. According to the Enforcement Decree of the Military Service Act, those who have been terminated, suspended, or exempted from the execution of the sentence must continue to fill the remaining period of service. If the police do not send it or the prosecution does not prosecute it because the charges are not admitted, or if the court acquitted it, the period of suspension of service is recognized as the period of service.
Psy served in the military as an industrial technical personnel for 35 months from 2002, but was declared in poor service in 2007 and rejoined the Army's 52nd Division in December that year, and was discharged from the military after 20 months of service. As a result, Song Min-ho is also drawing attention to the results of the police investigation.
YG Entertainment, the agency, explained that it used all vacations in accordance with regulations. However, there was no explanation for not appearing at the facility, where he worked.
Meanwhile, the Mapo Police Station in Seoul launched an internal investigation on the 18th after receiving a complaint from the National Newspaper asking to investigate Song Min-ho's alleged manipulation of regular work. The Military Manpower Administration is grasping the facts about Song Min-ho's attendance.
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