▲ Part of the MBC entertainment program ‘Radio Star’ on the 18th. MBC sent out a data screen in which Cho Hyeong-gi’s face was mosaic-processed. 2023.1.18 MBC
Cho Hyeong-gi’s withdrawal from broadcasting was revealed to be true.
On the 18th, the MBC entertainment program ‘Radio Star’ showed guest Lee Kyung-gyu appearing in ‘Lee Kyung-gyu is going’, which was a corner of ‘Sunday Sunday Night’ in 2002. It was a scene where Lee Kyung-kyu was watching the Korea-Japan match between Korea and Portugal in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup.
In this process, the data screen of Jo Hyeong-ki, who appeared with Lee Kyung-gyu, was thoroughly covered with a mosaic.
Each broadcasting company can apply its own deliberation to ‘ex-convict’ entertainers who have caused controversy due to crimes, etc., and broadcast following mosaic processing. It was found that MBC classified Cho Hyung-ki, who was sentenced to prison for drunk driving and abandonment of a body in the past, as a ‘reviewer’s opinion celebrity’ and processed it into a mosaic.
This is the first time that Cho Hyeong-ki appeared on a terrestrial broadcast with his face covered by a mosaic.
▲ A portion of the screen of Hyunggi Cho’s YouTube channel ‘Neighborhood TV’
In August 1991, Cho Hyung-ki hit and killed a woman in her 30s while driving drunk in Jeongseon-gun, Gangwon-do, and then abandoned the body. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison for the case, but was released on parole in 1993 and resumed his broadcasting activities in the same year. Since then, Hyung-ki Cho, who has been active in various dramas and entertainment, left the broadcaster following the hit and run case was re-examined and MBN’s ‘Golden Egg’ ended in 2017. In effect, it was an exit from the entertainment industry.
In January 2020, Cho Hyung-ki opened a YouTube channel, ‘Neighborhood TV’, and tried to return, but the channel was stopped amid criticism.
His current status was confirmed in another country. A netizen who witnessed the formative period at a Koreantown restaurant in Philadelphia, USA in October of last year said, “It seems that he has settled in the United States.”
Reporter Kwon Yoon-hee
