FT Island’s Choi Min-hwan is underneath police investigation following allegations of soliciting prostitution, Friday.
The Gangnam Police Station confirmed on Friday that it has launched an inside investigation into Choi on prices associated to the Act on the Punishment of Association of Business Intercourse Acts. The case started after a criticism was filed via the nationwide petition platform.
The allegations first got here to mild when Choi’s ex-wife, Yulhee, a former member of woman group La Boum, posted a 37-minute video on her YouTube channel on Thursday. Within the video, Yulhee claimed that Choi steadily visited prostitution companies and launched recordings of Choi’s dialog with a person who gave the impression to be a workers member of a brothel, which have been recorded from July to August 2022.
Following Yulhee’s video, a citizen filed a criticism via “e-people,” a platform underneath the Anticorruption and Civil Rights Fee, reporting each Choi and an alleged middleman to the police for violations of the Act on the Punishment of Association of Business Intercourse Acts. The police have since launched an investigation into the claims.
Choi and Yulhee married in 2018, and so they have three kids: one son and twin daughters. The couple divorced in December 2022 after 5 years of marriage, with Choi taking custody of the youngsters. Just lately, he appeared on KBS 2TV parenting present “The Return of Superman,” the place he expressed the challenges of being a single father.
“I generally puzzled why I needed to endure such criticism, feeling each unfairly handled and harm,” Yulhee stated via the YouTube video, sharing that she has obtained hurtful feedback accusing her of neglecting her kids for the reason that divorce.
She added, “Regardless of my private emotions about (Choi’s) actions, I don’t imagine he has wronged our youngsters as a father. Realistically, he has a home, an prolonged household and the youngsters are pleased with this life, which is why I relinquished custody.”
In response to the controversy, Choi’s company, FNC Leisure, launched an announcement on Friday expressing remorse for disappointing the general public and viewers. The corporate confirmed that Choi can be halting all media actions, together with his appearances together with his kids on tv.
Meanewhile, Choi’s band, FT Island, is scheduled to carry out on Saturday in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, as a part of the band’s “Pulse in Asia” tour celebrating its seventeenth anniversary. It stays unclear if Choi will take part within the live performance tour as deliberate.
