On the first day of the 20th presidential election, singer K.Will was embarrassed by the controversy over the election law and wrote an apology.
K.Will uploaded a photo of the 20th presidential election ballot with an article "VOTE" on his SNS on the morning of the 4th. K.Will seems to have posted the post to encourage voting.
But unlike K.Will's intention to encourage voting, his actions amount to violations of the election law. According to Article 166-2 of the Public Official Election Act, no one should shoot a ballot or a pre-vote in a ballot box. If you violate this, you may be sentenced to up to two years in prison or a fine of up to 4 million won.
A person who filmed a ballot in a ballot box similar to K.Will during the 19th presidential election in 2017 was handed over to trial but acquitted. The court explained that it photographed the paper before the vote, not the ballot that selected the actual candidate, and there was no penalty clause for such an act.
It is also illegal to take a voting stamp on the back of the hand, fist, etc., take a picture in the voting booth, and post it on SNS. In the past, authentication shots such as thumbs and V marks, which were banned for reminding people of signs, are possible because they were allowed when the Public Official Election Act was amended in 2017.
K.Will was conscious of his misconduct, then deleted the post and posted an apology. "I would like to apologize for the posts I uploaded after the pre-vote through SNS this morning," he wrote. "I am deeply reflecting on the inconvenience that I have been acting inappropriately with my ignorance and have caused many people including fans. I will try to be more careful in the future. I am sorry. "
Earlier in 2010, the group Brown Eyed Girls Miryo participated in the 5th national simultaneous local elections, took four ballots at the ballot box, uploaded them to SNS, and became controversial.
Miryo's agency said: "Miryo did not know what to keep when voting and voted. It is true that he did wrong. But it was not malicious or intentional. "The ballot specified in the election law means" ballot after the ballot. " Miryo has taken a ballot before the ballot, so it is hard to conclude that it is a clear violation of election law.
Unlike K.Will, many of the players, including Yeo Jin-gu, Kim Seo-hyung, Idahee, Super Junior Lee Teuk, Kim Hee-cheol, Jang Sung-gyu, Kim Tae-gyun, Kang Jae-joon, Shin So-yul, former soccer player Lee Dong-guk, Lee Soo-geun and Yoon Il-sang,
K.Will, on the other hand, posted a certification shot of election law violations and an apology to SNS that disappears within 24 hours, pointing out the indifference to the apology that should be seen in a limited time.
There is also a sign on the ballot that the photo shoot is forbidden. It is not the first time this vote was held for K. Will, who was born in 1981. It is good to encourage voting, but it emphasizes the violation of the election law through the media before the election.