Lee Min Ho Exempt From Active Duty in Pending Military Enlistment Due to Prior Accident Injury

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• I'm a fan of some of his dramas such as City Hunter and Faith. But I don't think highly of his excuse for pending military service. I have many relatives who are doctors in Asia. According to them, it's easy to fake medical evidence to dodge draft.

  • You expect people to serve even with injury? Such a fake fan. Get real.

    • serving the army doesn't necessarily mean being in the frontline, there are also administrative aka office works to be done and its the perfect place for those not fit enough to do the drills.

    • You talked like an angry bird with no logic nor basic manner. LOL.....Don't get worked up before you even know me. There're many LMH fans who have no idea what happened to him 10 years ago regarding the car accident. I was one of these fans before reading this blog. Who defines a real fan to be someone snooping around private life of a celebrity? For many drama viewers including me, we mostly only care about actors' acting skills. So get your basic etiquette back!

    • I was talking to Fake.

  • At this point, it's not my position to judge if LMH faked the medical evidence to be excused from regular military service like a normal korean male citizen. How a severe accident 10 years ago affects his mobility to participate in normal drills on daily basis is not in my profession to decide. Nonetheless, given how prevalent the powerful and celebrities have been trying all their means to dodge military draft in Asian countries that require mandatory military service of each grown-up male citizen, it would be hard for their countrymen to pay respect to these folks who are exempt from military services. LMH is definitely gonna have more haters bcos of that. Is it really necessary and worthy for him of doing so? Only he knows.

  • I think they are afraid he's going to get hurt. He does bring in a lot of money - not only for himself and company - but the whole country. So, I'm not surprised. Anyways, he'd probably be a distraction in the military since he is a mega-star.

    • But I do agree that the level of respect goes down for me a bit.

    • But I do still like him as an actor and will still check out whatever he's in. I mean life is unfair - so whatever.

• he is not faking anything, he had a serious car accident that put him in the hospital for 7 months, two people died from that accident,and his fellow actor friend also got severely injured. He is right handed, but because of the accident he uses mostly his left leg for any type of impact, like fighting scenes, he broke his ankle, his femur, and torn ligaments, so he is not faking anything.

  People will hate regardless of facts, but luckily he has a devoted fanbase that will wait for him, he just needs to do his 2 yrs quietly, without any controversy, he should be fine.

  • yes you are definitely right he is not faking !!!!!!

  • Yea, doesn't he still have metal rods of sort in his leg? I last read about this accident when I first started liking him back in BoF days, it's been a while.

  • The injuries didn't seem to bother him when he was doing all sorts of difficult stunt scenes for City Hunter and Gangnam Blues. If he's able to do those, then he shouldn't have a problem with active duty.

    • difficult stunt =/= active duty.

      Stunts aren't the real action. They are all planned to not hurt the person involved, take days filming one action scene, camera angles capture the best things and make it look dangerous/difficult, most use body stunts too, so I don't think you can compare both to active duty.

    • You're right that stunts =/= active duty, because active duty is much easier. Stunts are difficult and dangerous, that's why there are stuntspeople and body doubles, whereas active duty is easier. LMH had mentioned that he got injured on Gangnam Blues and City Hunter while filming action sequences, and even had to go to the emergency room several times. If he can do that, he can do active duty.

      Active duty is something that every healthy person can do. Most of the time active duty is quite boring. A regular soldier spends most of their time doing work and exercise around the base. That can be physically grueling, but again, if you're able to shoot an action drama for 20 hours a day, you should have no problem with active duty.

      I'm sick of celebrities getting special treatment. I'm Korean American and I know for a fact that if ordinary people are in LMH's physical shape, they are sent to active duty straight away. But I guess they want to leave the little people to defend the country and let celebrities live like kings. It's sick.

    • If you're Korean American, doesn't that mean you haven't served in army yourself? And how is shooting a pre-planned action scene for several hours compared to 2 years of non-stop military active duty that requires hours of running in the summer and shoveling snow in winter on daily basis?
      If anything Lee Min Ho would've gotten complete exemption had he been a civilian who went through such big accident - a metal rod in your leg, man. Ever since MC Mong celebs have not been getting that special treatment people like to claim so much, if anything they really try to go active duty nowadays so people like you won't whine about it.

• I was waiting for this to be posted. Well, I'm sure he has a good excuse to be assigned public service, but he's going to get shit for it forever. A lot of celebs continue to retake the tests and get rehab etc so they won't be assigned such a unit. But again, it's not like he needs Korean netizens to like him given how popular he is elsewhere. Though the new crop of enlisted people other than LSG have been disappointing. First Joo Won and his promotional cop unit and now public service LMH.

  • Not biased, just stating obvious facts. Since % of K ent celebrities not serving regular military units (such as marine corp, army, or air force,etc.) or trying to dodge enlistment is pretty high, surely S. Koreans do not trust authenticity of various excuses made by these celebrities. This is also part of the reasons why they are so fond of Song Joong Ki. SJK could have chosen to be in public service unit as an option given to him. Instead, he chose to be enlisted like regular male citizens.

    • I honestly don't even try to judge netizens who get upset about celebs getting out of their MS. I'm sure it's a hell of a lot easier for someone like LMH to get out of it for a car accident years ago than it is for some random poor guy fresh out of high school to do so. And yes, any guy who does their MS with honor and does active duty gets praised, since they could easily get out of it.

  • We are a family that are all in military involve , my Dad is a full active in his time as a military but he did not make into his career, my two brothers but they only up to a year then they get out they said is boring I married an active American soldier and make it into his career from private to become a CW2 then he retired my son in law he is a Doctor now still active his military career and he is now a Captain I have cousin he is now in medical reason
    He is a nurse when he join in military, in my country or here in America there is no more it’s mandatory to force yourself to join the Army, before when I was a little girl I hear all male should voluntarily join the army but now it’s up to them I remember example Elvis Presley voluntArily join the Army but he did not stay long in the military.

• He has a really long face

• He and Jung Ilwoo both are exempted from active duty. Both were in the accident together. Their injuries details here http://www.soompi.com/2016/05/19/jung-il-woo-releases-enlistment-details-following-lee-min-ho/

  • Yikes, that sounds terrible! That's the first I've heard of it. Maybe netizens don't know the details, and will cut him a break when they know better.

• common is not only lmh both jung llwoo and lee min ho are both exempted. looking good from the outside does not mean he is not suffering inside.... and also lmh himself said it in an interview that he does not use is injured leg for actions scene... fighting lmh we your fans are always supporting you .. love u big

• Most people don't know the details but it was horrible,he could not walk for almost a year and people died in that accident. I don't think he will risk his career by lying,that guy values his job more than anything lol,public or active duty atleast he is serving his country.

• I read comments from Knetizens, that the most irritating thing is LMH doing action scenes in City hunter and Bounty hunters, but now he is uncapable to serve. One of both is fake and people wonder which one :)

  • Stunt doubles? Has it been confirmed that he did his own stunts?

    • He didn't use stunt doubles in any of his action scenes, at least not in City Hunter, based on an interview with the drama PD.

• There are some ppl in korea who have made it there life along hobby and obsessed with lmh and a part of them are in the media and coming at him in a horrible ways even at the time when he was only a kid. His someone who has been given second chance in life and feel like he could have probably died in that car accident which means everything would have been different regarding hallyu today. His a very nice boy who really dosen't warrant such bad obsession and mostly these ppl are powerful ppl and not your common trolls. they circulate bad pics, news etc etc downgrading mediaplays on him 24/7..

  they are just allover him to a extent that it's human rights violation. they have stripped him of his humanity and I'm just wondering for how long he would still be an actor. Is it really worth of working under such scrutiny?

  • lol what are you talking about? He's a handsome young guy so that gets him a pass for most things from everyone. Female idols and actresses deal with things a million times worse than he does.

    • No not even close as much as LMH. I hardly see on him positive Kmedia reports without agenda or mediaplay

    • +1

  • This random long ass rambling is nothing but all-over-the-top speculation. LOL

    • Don't get carried way by his success and fame which actully hides the campaign against and it's a vicious and it's underneath everything you have to follow him around to understand. there is powerful ppl who wants to destroy him. ever since bof-days.

      I have seen celebrities and stuff but I have never seen anything like the tensions and rabid campaign against anyone like lmh that alone needs a chapter in history. I tell you what it's more curious case then benjamin butter literally.

      Is he worldwide loved yes but the campaign is coming from ppl with money and power imo

• I knew this was coming. No judgement but Jay Chou exempted also form MS in Taiwan and it never affected his popularity