Military service is a heavy topic for South Korean men, especially for artists in the entertainment industry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Military service is generally required for adult men in South Korea, with the exception of a very small number of people who have failed to perform or have made outstanding contributions to the country.

Regardless of the deterioration of living conditions and the physical and mental hardship. For an artist, taking a break from acting for two to three years and going to the army to live a life of isolation, away from the media and fans, is a terrible crisis in itself.

In fact, the issue of military service is a greater threat to the careers of Korean chess players than artists. After returning from service, many promising newcomers in the Korean chess world have retired, due to a long-term lack of training and competitions, which has led to a great decline in chess power, and they have collapsed and disappeared.

In 1994, South Korean genius chess player Lee Chang-ho turned 18 years old and officially faced service problems. In order to protect his strength from being affected by military service, hundreds of members of the National Assembly even formed the "Lee Chang-ho Parliamentary Support Group" and jointly launched a signature campaign to fight for it. As a result, Lee Chang-ho still went to receive a month of military training, and then returned to the Korean Chess Academy as an active-duty soldier, "replacing service with competitions", and officially retired three years later.

As a long-time subscriber to magazines such as Go World, Duan Shanshan knew a lot about this historical anecdote, so he had long heard about the pressure that military service issues put on Korean men.

However, the South Korean government and people attach great importance to the issue of service, and evading or even refusing to serve is not only a huge scandal, but also suppressed by the former and spurned by the latter.

The most famous example is singer and actor Yoo Seung-joon. He immigrated to the United States as a child and returned to South Korea at the age of nineteen, where he was later discovered by record labels. In 2001, he attended a medical examination at the local military affairs department, which concluded that he would need to serve for 28 months. Soon after, he became an American citizen to avoid military service. As a result, the whole country was outraged, and the public thought that he had disgraced the face of South Koreans, and the Ministry of Justice also banned him from entering South Korea under the Immigration Control Act, which "may endanger the interests or public safety of the Republic of Korea."

After that, this person was denied even an application for a work visa to enter South Korea, and even when his father-in-law died, he was stopped at Incheon Airport when he wanted to go back to South Korea for funeral, and was thrown with eggs all over his body by "angry people".

More recently, the year before last, Lee Jae-jin, a member of the Crystal Boys, the originator of the Korean Wave, suffered from depression due to the death of his parents within three years, and after enlisting in the army, he asked for a leave of absence due to health problems, but did not return to the team on time until he was caught red-handed by the gendarmerie, and stayed outside for up to a month. As a result, he went to court-martial, and was sentenced by the Ministry of Defense to serve a one-year prison sentence with a two-year reprieve.

Even in the VCR short film "Diary of a Girl" played at the concert when he was young, the Taeyeon in front of him once teased the singer Park Jae-sang a little, saying that he heard him say that soldiers are loyal to only three things after waking up early every day: the country, the governor and the girl's generation - Park Jae-sang was once sentenced by the court to serve for 20 months again for "dereliction of duty" for taking concerts to make money during his service. The subtext of Taeyeon's sentence in the short film is obviously because Park Jae-sang has been in the army longer than ordinary people, so his views will be more authoritative.

In addition to these, famous artists such as Song Seung-heon, Won Bin, and Rain have also caused controversy or a decline in popularity due to reasons such as fraudulent urine tests, repeated applications for deferment of service, or frequent vacations during service.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that military service is a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of Korean artists.

Even in the highly competitive Korean entertainment industry, military service has become a hidden weapon that can be used to attack competitors, and Kim Jong Kook, who Wakazakura is eating, was crowned the triple crown champion in 2005 (winning the highest awards at the year-end music awards held by the three major TV stations KBS, MBC, and SBS), and the application for deferment of service was unexpectedly rejected the following year, and when the album was just finished recording and did not start much publicity, it was almost forced to be sent to serve in the army. So for a while, conspiracy theories (other agencies behind the scenes) were rampant.

However, once everything is a fait accompli, it no longer matters what the truth is behind the scenes. As a result, Kim Jong Kook returned from service, and he almost switched to the variety show industry, joined many ace shows, and gradually transformed into a funny artist.

So many famous actors and singers have nothing to do in the face of military service, but to obey, otherwise it will be ruined and ruined, not to mention as an idol whose status is far inferior to the first two?

As a Korean, although there is no need to think about military service because of gender, Taeyeon naturally knows very well what military service means to Kim Hee-cheol, so she can only bow her head and remain silent at the moment, and the atmosphere in the room is a little dull for a while.

"Actually, I envy you, for most men, being a soldier should be a childhood dream. When I graduated from high school, I also applied to join the army, but unfortunately it was brushed off because of vision problems. Duan Shanshan clumsily tried to open the topic.

"Planner Duan, don't you have good eyesight?" Taeyeon looked up a little unexpectedly, "But why haven't you ever worn glasses?

Duan Shanshan rubbed his nose and explained a little embarrassedly: "I only have one eye for myopia, and I am usually used to using the normal one to look at the distance and the nearsighted one to see the near place, so it's not too much of a problem not to wear it." ”

"Haha, really?" Taeyeon asked with interest, "How can you be nearsighted on only one side?" ”

"When I was a child, I liked to read books, when I ate, and when I was lying in bed. Maybe it's because of this, and that's it......" Duan Shanshan shrugged and spread his hands.

"I see. But in your case, if you don't wear glasses and only use one eye, because of long-term non-use, the vision of the myopic eye will further deteriorate, and it may even become amblyopia!" Taeyeon persuaded very seriously.

"We Taeyeon really deserve to be the princess of the optician's family, can I think that you are trying to win business for your uncle now?" Duan Shanshan and Taeyeon's words, Jin Xiche also collected his emotions, and at this moment, he couldn't help but interject.

Taeyeon's father opened an optical store in Jeonju, and the store also collected all the albums of his youth, as well as the autographs and greetings of each member, and he became famous in the fan circle of his youth.

Kim Hee-cheol is obviously teasing Taeyeon about this.

"Ahh

"No!" Kim Hee-cheol replied decisively, then tilted his head and muttered, "Fortunately, I have already undergone vision correction surgery, and now I don't need to wear glasses." ”

Taeyeon pointed at Kim Hee-cheol with a smile and shouted "Ahhh

Kim Hee-cheol reached out and pushed Taeyeon's fingers away disapprovingly, and he changed the topic again with his profound skills, turned his head and asked Duan Shanshan, "By the way, Duan Planning, is it our superjunior who is more popular in your Celestial Empire, or is it Taeyeon's girlhood?"

"Of course we are popular! Let's talk about the threesome studio planned by Duan, Liu Production and Che Program were also fans of our childhood, but I haven't heard of anyone eating your superjunior. "Probably because the relationship is too familiar, Taeyeon can actually say such rude things in the eyes of ordinary Koreans in front of his predecessor Oba.

Of course, there are also factors that have not subsided after being repeatedly complained about by Kim Hee-cheol just now.

"That's because there aren't any female employees in Duan's studio, otherwise they would have eaten us!" retorted Kim Hee-cheol, not to be outdone.

"Who said no, Wakasakura Oni is a woman, but she eats Chung Kook Oba instead of you!" Taeyeon said proudly.

For SuperJunior, Kim Jong Kook is also a senior, the latter won the triple crown in the year, and the former had just debuted. At the mention of this name, Jin Xiche naturally didn't dare to be rude, and after saying "oh", he could only shut up and make a deflated expression.

"I don't know much about young people. For people of our time, the Korean idol who had the greatest influence was neither Girls' Generation nor Superjunior, can you guess who it was?" Seeing that the two were arguing vigorously, Duan Shanshan couldn't help but sell out.

"Boa Oni?" Taeyeon asked without thinking.

The Boa she is talking about is Boa, the first sister of S.M. Company, and Taeyeon herself is eager to become an artist like Boa to embark on the road of idol.

BOA's main market is in Japan, and its influence in the Celestial Empire is not great, Duan Shanshan shook his head.

"Hyorinuna?" Kim Hee-cheol looked up and recalled, and also gave his own answer.

After all, he is a person who has been a roommate with Han Geng for several years, and he knows much more about the Celestial Empire than Taeyeon, and this answer is a little more reliable.

Duan Shanshan nodded and shook his head again. He raised his left hand and made a strange gesture of straightening his little finger and making a fist with the other four fingers, turning his wrist over and bringing his little finger close to his chin.

"Oh, the Unique!"

"It's Junghyunununa!"

Taeyeon and Kim Hee-cheol suddenly realized.

That's right, Li Zhenxian, who became famous for fan dancing and pinky wheat, Duan Shanshan is talking about her.

Taeyeon herself copied this song in "Quiz That Changed the World" two years ago (090322 that issue), and Kim Hee-cheol and Lee Jung-hyun are also familiar with each other, and it is a relationship of "meeting often and occasionally drinking together". So as soon as Duan Shanshan gave a hint, the two of them immediately guessed the result.

"For people of the Celestial Empire of your age, it may be the most popular Li Xiaolixi, who is invincible in the world, but for a post-70s generation like me, it should be the unique Li Zhenxian Xi's greatest influence. Duan Shanshan explained with a smile, "In our era, the Korean songs that were played most in dance halls and shopping malls were basically Lee Jung-hyun-seok. ”

Taeyeon and Kim Hee-cheol bowed their heads slightly, and their faces couldn't help but show a look of longing and admiration.