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Block B member P.O enlisted in the Marines on the 28th and left a video letter, and his remarks regarding summoning IU out of the blue are becoming a problem.
On the 6th, GQ Korea released a video on its YouTube channel titled “P.O’s letter to fans before enlistment (feat. IU)”.
In the video, P.O left a video letter to the remaining Block B members and fans, as well as to the entertainment program ‘Amazing Saturday’, and summoned IU when he reached the end. “Maybe IU, Ji-eun. P.O said, “I was going to talk regarding it, but I’m not going to do it.”
There is an argument among netizens who have seen the video.
One netizen commented, “They are the same age (30 years old), but IU debuted in 2008 and P.O. debuted in 11 years. It is rude to mention that IU is a senior. I don’t know what to do,” he commented.
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To counter this, some netizens commented in favor of P.O, saying, “I think he said it because he wanted to get to know him”, “Everything is a problem,” and “IU has been there before on a request.”
In fact, the fundamental issue is not whether P.O and IU are close or not, but the year they debuted. The core of the problem is P.O’s values of treating women as trophies and the existing military traditions. How was P.O’s idea that ‘visiting women’ would make her military life easier, not her physical strength or combat ability? There is still a prevailing culture in the military where, when a ‘young and pretty’ woman comes to visit, other soldiers express their closeness to the soldier and make life easier for the soldier. It is a very deformed and anachronistic culture.
Jinmyung Girls’ High School forced students to write consolation letter Less than half a year had passed since the case became controversial. It seems that the day when the gaze of women as merely a doll that pleases men and an object to comfort men is corrected is still far away.
Reporter Hyejun Moon: huffkorea@gmail.com