A woman with a knife broke into a dressing room in a theatre in Seoul and hurt famous K-pop star Kyuhyun during a fight.
She entered the room at around 6:00 PM local time, as per the local news.
Kyuhyun from Super Junior was visiting his friends who are actors. He got a cut on his finger while trying to stop someone.
The 30-year-old woman has been taken into custody.
The police are trying to find out where she got the weapon and if she has ever been mentally ill before.
Local news said that she doesn’t have any relationship with Kyuhyun or the other actors who were there.
Kyuhyun got a small cut on his finger, but it was taken care of right away where he was. This was confirmed by the 35-year-old’s Antenna Music agency to South Korea‘s JoongAng Daily newspaper.
Kyuhyun is the main actor in a Korean version of a musical called Ben-Hur. It’s about a made-up Jewish hero who was wrongly accused of trying to kill someone by the Romans.
The actor-singer joined Super Junior, a very popular boy band in the country, in 2006.
Since that time, he has also become a musical actor.
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K-pop singer Kyuhyun injured by woman with knife on stage
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K-pop star, Moonbin, allegedly commits suicide
According to his record label, 25-year-old K-pop sensation Moonbin has passed away.
He was discovered unconscious by his manager on Wednesday night at his flat in Seoul, according to police, who were cited by South Korean media.
“He appears to have taken his own life but an autopsy is being reviewed to determine the exact cause of death,” police said.
Moonbin “unexpectedly left our world and became a star in the sky”, a tribute from his label Fantiago said.
He started in show business in the 2000s as a young actor and model. When he was 11 years old, he made his acting debut in the well-known Korean drama series Boys Over Flowers. He joined the well-known boy band Astro in 2016 at the age of 18.
Moonbin belongs to an exclusive group of K-pop celebrities with a career that has lasted his entire life. Although he doesn’t have the same amount of popularity outside as BTS or Blackpink, Rob Schwartz, an Asia correspondent for Billboard Magazine, told the BBC that he is incredibly well-liked at home.
He continued by saying that record producers expect K-pop celebrities to consistently generate hits while they are also subject to enormous pressure from followers on social media to look and sound ideal.
Since 2020, Moonbin had been performing with another Astro member Sanha in a duo. Moonbin & Sanha had been in the middle of a world tour, and their last performance was in Bangkok on 8 April.
The label Fantiago said all of Astro’s members were returning to Seoul on Thursday to gather for Moonbin’s wake. The statement from the label also asked people to “refrain from speculative and malicious reports” so that Moonbin’s family could pay their respects in peace.
Moobin’s sister Moon Sua is also a K-pop singer, part of the girl group Billlie. The siblings had previously spoken in public interviews about their dependence on each other.
South Korea has the highest rate of youth suicide among developed countries. While its overall suicide rate is falling, deaths of those in their 20s are rising. The K-pop industry alone has seen four suicides in recent years.
Singer and actress Goo Hara was found dead at her home in Seoul in 2019. Her close friend, K-pop star Sulli, killed herself after a long struggle with online bullying in the same year. In 2018, Minwoo of boy band 100% died at home, with his label only saying he had suffered cardiac arrest. Jonghyun, the lead singer of SHINee, one of South Korea’s biggest boy bands died in 2017.
Moonbin joined the Fantagio’s trainee programme as a child before eventually joining Astro. The group was originally six performers, but one member left in February 2023.
Astro fans – known as “Arohas” – have been mourning Moonbin’s death. Known as an all-round performer, he had been seen as the boy band’s most celebrated dancer.
Pictures on social media showed fans on Wednesday night laying flowers and post-it notes at impromptu street memorials in South Korea. Fans also strung up purple and silver balloons – colours that had featured prominently at the singer’s last performance in Thailand.
Image caption,Moonbin, left, and Sanha of Astro last year At a recent concert, while on the “Diffusion” tour with Sanha to promote the duo’s latest EP record, Moonbin told fans that he had been going through a difficult time, Korean broadcaster SBS reported.
“I want to confess one thing, I’m actually feeling really bad. There might have been a lot of signs from which people could notice since the concert started, so I’m also very sorry to you guys.
“I’m working out and trying to pick up things that I’ve left little by little. I chose this job so I need to be happy so that I can make fans happy as well,” he said in a live broadcast over social media.
The duo was set to perform in Macau this Saturday, followed by Indonesia and Japan in May.
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BTS: K-pop band should be conscripted to ensure fairness, South Korean military says
South Korea’s military has said it is “desirable” for the K-pop supergroup BTS to be conscripted to ensure fairness.
The nation is split over whether the boy band should be exempt from mandatory service in a country where all able-bodied men must perform between 18 and 21 months of military service.
However, exemptions are made for athletes, classical and traditional musicians and dancers who have won top prizes in competitions which boost the prestige of the country.
The parliament in Seoul passed a bill to allow global K-pop stars such as BTS to move the upper age for national service to 30.
But this means BTS’ eldest member, Jin, could face being called up next year because his 30th birthday is in December.
On Friday, the commissioner of the military manpower administration, Lee Ki Sik, told MPs it was “desirable” for BTS members to fulfil their military duties.
Earlier this week, defence minister Lee Jong-Sup ordered officials to examine whether a public survey is needed to make the decision. The culture minister Park Bo Gyoon said that his ministry would finalise its position soon.
But the Ministry of National Defence has rejected the idea of a survey.
According to the South Korean publication SBS, the ministry said in an official statement: “The Ministry of National Defence will not arrange a public poll on the matter, nor make decisions on the issue of BTS’ military service solely based on the result of the poll.”
Image: BTS member Jin faces conscription after his 30th birthday in December. Pic: AP One recent survey found that 61% of respondents supported exemptions for entertainers.
But 54% of people questioned for another poll said BTS should serve in the military.
In August, Mr Lee said if BTS members sign up for service they are likely to be allowed to continue practising and join the rest of the group on overseas tours.
People who are exempted will be released from the military after three weeks of basic training and must complete 544 hours of voluntary work.
Source: Skynews