With five days left until his discharge from military service, attention is focused on the agency‘s counterargument that Winner’s Song Mino‘s poor alternative service was in compliance with regulations.

YG Entertainment (YG), Song Mino’s agency, stated on the 17th when the report was released that in the case of sick leave, “it was an extension of the treatment he was receiving before serving, and all other vacation days were used in accordance with regulations.”

On the same day, entertainment media Dispatch raised the ‘alest suspicions about attendance’ of Winner‘s Song Mino, who is currently serving as a social service worker at a public convenience facility in Mapo, Seoul. Dispatch pointed out the frequent use of Song Mino’s sick leave and annual leave as evidence for the attendance controversy.

Song Min-ho began his alternative service in March of last year, and is scheduled to be discharged on the 23rd.


Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com