So this may be one of the toughest celeb military enlistment scandals that I can remember in terms of the severity of the punishment. K-rapper Ravi of the group VIXX and former popular member of variety 2 Days 1 Night was under investigation since last year after a group of brokers were captured by police as running a military service evasion ring and Ravi was one of their clients. The ring referred clients to a doctor in Gangnam who falsely diagnosed each with epilepsy and with that medical record the client was able to get exempt from military service or get downgraded from more active service to public or desk service. Ravi quit 2D1N after he came under investigation and this week also withdrew from VIXX. He claimed to be under pressure as the only money making member of Jellyfish Entertainment hence he was desperate to keep making money for the company, and once the financial situation was stabilized he enlisted for the military as a public servant and did his boot camp training first. There have been countless K-male stars who have tried to evade or defer or lower enlistment level and some like PSY was forced to do it over (so he did 4 years haha). MC Mong with his teeth, Song Seung Heon with diabetes, and of course most famous Yoo Seung Joon who changed his citizenship and was then deported from SK and in the decade since never allowed back (talk about shooting himself in the foot). But no famous person went to jail (yet) so Ravi may be a new punishment high.
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The list will be completed here, Military extended service (checked), getting away with Medical issues (checked), Deportation (checked), and last but not least Jail due to false statement will be on the checked list soon :D
He already left Jellyfish Entertainment earlier. The agency he's talking about is his own-GROOVL1N.
Ravi was initially got grade 3 in 2021, postponed his service until recently, and got grade 4 in re-examination in 2019. So he was already qualified for social service which is a huge privilege for most people. The problem is for whatever reasons, his company co-CEO contacted the broker in early 2021, and they went extra length to get him fully exempted from military. So they conspired to fake fainting, faking epilepsy, requested prescription, and ate the medicine before the detailed physical examination so the substance was detected in the urine test, resulting in achieving grade 5, but Military reversed the grade judgement and he needed to enlist as social worker (grade 4). So everything were in vain, basically. Paid 50M and now at the risk of prison time.
If he gets prison time (2 years or less), he will be the first celebrity to get the punishment. Celebrities just don't learn, we thought at least they know best to not mess up with military but someone dumb will do it again and again, such a career s*uicide
Some clarifications. He left Jellyfish Entertainment to start his own label, Groovl1n, which he claims he was the only money maker. He was still a part of VIXX, who is under Jellyfish. He says he tried to postpone/be exempt bc he was meant to go on tour but covid delayed the tour and he would have to pay cancellation fees in contracts if the tour was "rescheduled" during his enlistment. Also he had already unofficially quit 2d1n when he left to go to military since they never mentioned him coming back.