The name is BTS. The name of the fan club is ARMY. Was it foreseen? When the idol group BTS' LOVE YOURSELF (ANSWER) topped the US Billboard 200 chart on the 3rd, public opinion began to rise to give them special Military service benefits. This is because I contributed to the music of Korea to World.
Criticism has been poured into the 2017 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Game gold medal list, which has been legally awarded the Military service benefits. It is pointed out that Asian Game are being used as a means of avoiding military service in some events that can be easily won medals compared to domestic levels.
The Pianist Seong-Jin Cho, who won the World's most prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition, is also in line with the military service exemption, and the controversy and workshop over the military service exemption is a sign of further spread.
The baseball team, which won gold medals in the Asian Game and received Military service benefits, is pouring blame. In the field of sports, athletes who have achieved the third place in the Olympics and the first place in Asian Game are selected as athletes who receive military service exemption. The countries that participated in the Asian Game do not give much weight to baseball, and it is recognized that Asian Game are actually a way to receive Military service benefits for Korean professional players. Baseball powers Japan and Taiwan are no longer seeing Asian Game as a professional stage, so they are playing baseball players as the main players.
There is a controversy in the Asian Game every time that baseball players to play are deliberately filled with military service unqualified people. In 2014, 13 of the 24 entries were unfinished in Incheon Asian Game, and this year, 9 out of 24 people received military exemptions as unfinished.
In particular, Oh Ji-hwan (LG) and Park Hae-min (Samsung) were known to have abandoned their military service team and business enlistment last year, raising criticism that they were aiming for a Military service benefits gold medal. In the eyes of these fans, Yang Hyun-jong (KIA) confessed that he had a scary imagination on his return from Asian Game, saying, "What if I did not win a gold medal?"
In the art World, The Pianist Seong-Jin Cho, who won the World's most prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition, and the BTS, who won the Billboard's first place in the military service in 2013 with the Hamamatsu International Competition, also claimed to exemplify. Classical music is extemplation, and why popular music is not subject to it.
In this regard, Ha Tae-kyung has raised the issue of pop culture and the equity of pure music for Military service benefits. "The first prize of the Classical Music Competition World, such as violin, is subject to military exemplification, but why is the first popular music World like BTS not getting exemplification?"
In order to be transferred to the art agent who receives the military exemplification benefit, it is necessary to be a winner of the domestic and overseas art contest and an intangible cultural asset transfer education set by the Military Manpower Administration.
“If the same music is the same, we should not discriminate,” Ha said. “Popular music, which leads the Korean Wave, should benefit more from the national prestige standards.”
a voice of need for reestablishment of ambiguous national prestige standards
Rep. An Min-seok, chairman of the National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee, suggested that the 45-year-old standard of national prestige should be reestablished.
“(BTS) has made a clear contribution to the nation by being the number one player on the Billboard chart,” he said in a radio interview on the 4th. “(BTS) needs to operate accurate standards and detailed rules accurately and strictly with the enforcement ordinance,” he said. Ahn then stressed that the public opinion process is necessary for the standard of national prestige.
BTS vs Oh Ji-hwan, Seong-Jin Cho