Controversy over Singer Amount date (53) has been continuing.
According to the music industry, a netizen who claims to be a fan of Amount date recently filed a complaint with the Military Manpower Administration regarding allegations of Amount date military service avoidance.
The netizen claimed that Amount date had renewed his visa every six months of the 1990s, when he was subject to South Korea military service, and was working as a Singer in Korea, but he deliberately avoided military service by leaving United States of America without giving up his United States of America nationality.
According to the Justice Department notice, Amount date stayed in United States of America in the 1980s and acquired United States of America citizenship, becoming a United States of America and South Korea dual national. Amount date then reported the loss of South Korea nationality in 1990.
The following year, Amount date, which debuted as a Singer in Korea with his first album 'Winter Wanderers' in 1991, was approved to restore South Korea nationality on January 26, 1993 and stayed in Korea. But in the same year, he gave up his South Korea nationality again, and canceled scheduled performances.
The industry weighs in on the fact that Amount date's abandonment of South Korean nationality and exemption from mandatory enlistment will not be a legal issue. However, it seems difficult to avoid criticism if it acts against the national sentiment, as in the case of Yoo Seung-jun (44 and Steve Seung-jun Yu).
In conjunction with this, the remarks made by the United States of America departure from JTBC Sugar Man, a broadcast program that Amount date helped to recover in the past, are being illuminated together. As of December 2019, Amount date said, "When I entered Korea as a United States of America, I came in with a 10-year visa. That was the visa, which required a check stamp every six months, and when I went to get it, someone at the immigration office said, “I don’t like having someone like you in Korea. I told him that while I was here, I would never take this stamp, and you would have to leave Korea. " If the departure for the purpose of avoiding military service is correct, it is pointed out that such a statement is also false.
Amount date claims that it has returned to United States of America because it thinks it failed to act as a Singer in Korea, not because of military problems. He also claimed that the visa period error was an error in memory.
In addition, Amount date continues to argue that there are forces to prevent its activities, suggesting legal responses to false facts.
But the latest situation in the Amount date is not so good. In addition to suspicions of military service avoidance, Amount date is surrounded by various suspicions such as suspicion of illegal illegal use of copyright fees, suspicion of illegal operation of a single agency, tax evasion and violation of consumer protection law.
While they generally claim to be “unjust”, they have not made clear any explanations for some of them, and some of the charges or complaints have been filed are under investigation.
Ammount date is planning a solo fan meeting on January 8 next year. Even though the rumor continues, there was no reversal of the fan meeting.
It may be a choice to maintain trust with fans who continue to support frequent controversy, but the gaze is not good. In any case, it is pointed out that it is necessary to crack down on the surroundings and resolve the suspicions raised rather than to enforce the profit-making fan meeting.