'Descendant of a pro-Japanese collaborator' Jeon Beom-seon: "Ha-young is 1/16 Japanese... Seems unaware of the social context"

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Band member and vocalist Jeon Beom-seon mentioned Ha-young, who recently faced controversy over being a descendant of a pro-Japanese collaborator ahead of Liberation Day.

On the 26th, a video titled "Pro-Japanese Collaborator Controversy That Returns Every Liberation Day: This Year's Sacrifice — Jeon Beom-seon and Shoes Off" was released on the YouTube channel 'SPNS TV'.

That day, Jeon Beom-seon said, "A controversy about Ha-young being a descendant of a pro-Japanese collaborator suddenly erupted ahead of Liberation Day. I feel uncomfortable when people talk about Ha-young socially. I'm sorry. Saying things like 'Ha-young is this, Jeon Beom-seon is that'..." Jeon Beom-seon has previously revealed that his great-great-grandfather on his mother's side, Lee In-jik, was a pro-Japanese nationalist traitor.

Continuing to speak about his family history, he added, "It's not because I want to be morally superior or anything. An Sang-ho married a Japanese woman. Ha-young is the descendant of a child born from a Japanese woman. One-sixteenth of him is Japanese. It's also funny to call a descendant of a Japanese person a pro-Japanese collaborator."

Jeon Beom-seon said, "My grandfather abandoned a Korean woman and married a Japanese beauty for his second marriage, yet they remained poor. I am the descendant of that abandoned Korean family. If I had been a descendant of a Japanese woman, who knows what would have happened."

He further added, "You may have heard at home that your grandfather was an extraordinary person. But since I majored in and studied history, I view my grandfather objectively. It seems you made such remarks without fully understanding the social context."

Previously, on the 7th episode of KBS 2TV's variety show 'Problem Children Are Coming!', Ha-young boasted about his family being a four-generation lineage of doctors. However, after the broadcast, criticism arose when it was revealed that his great-grandfather, An Sang-ho, had collaborated with Japan during the colonial era.

Following this, Ha-young apologized via his social media: "Through this incident, I personally searched for related materials and learned about my great-grandfather's pro-Japanese activities. I deeply regret having lightly mentioned my family history without properly understanding Korea's painful past under Japanese colonial rule."

However, the controversy has not subsided, and backlash is spreading to his upcoming projects, including Netflix's 'Trauma Center Season 2' and SBS's new drama 'There Is Hope'.

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