Park Seo-jin, who meets fans despite controversy over military exemption, confirmed to attend the KBS Entertainment Awards Rookie Award nomination
Dec 10, 2024
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On the 10th, his agency, Ostrich Entertainment, said "Park Seo-jin is scheduled to attend the '2024 KBS Entertainment Awards'." Park Seo-jin is considered a leading candidate for the Rookie of the Year award by appearing on KBS2 'The Living Men Season 2' and giving viewers laughter and emotion.
Park Seo-jin revealed a sad family history on the broadcast. Many people sympathized with her mother's battle with cervical cancer, her two brothers' successive deaths, and her past when she dropped out of high school for a living and followed her father on the boat. In the midst of these activities, he expressed his expectations for the award by announcing the invitation to the awards ceremony.
However, controversy over Park Seo-jin's exemption from the military has recently emerged. The agency said on the 28th of last month that Park Seo-jin was exempted from military service through a physical examination by the Military Manpower Administration in his early 20s", citing mental illness and family history. However, controversy spread as some viewers raised the issue of appearing on public broadcasting through the KBS viewer petition bulletin board.
Pointing out that Park Seo-jin said in past interviews, `I want to join the military after releasing only one hit song,' the petitioner criticized that `it is an act of mocking and deceiving the people.'
In response, Park Seo-jin made an explanation through the official fan cafe on December 2. He was re-examined level 7 in the 2014 military service examination, and after several re-examinations, he was finally judged as a level 5 wartime worker in 2018"I have been taking drugs and psychotherapy for treatment for about 10 years", he explained.
"I was afraid that if the exemption from the military due to mental illness was revealed, my activities as a singer would be disrupted."In past interviews, I couldn't immediately tell you about the exemption, and I mentioned a hit song as a dream, but I didn't expect it to be this big of a controversy."
Despite the controversy, Park Seo-jin will attend the "2024 KBS Entertainment Awards" and meet with fans.
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