Park Wi, aware of 'disability mockery → adopted daughter controversy'... quietly deleting videos [Star Issue]

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Videos on the YouTube channel "WiRacle," operated by YouTuber Park Wi, are continuously disappearing.

According to the YouTube channel evaluation site Social Blade on the 20th, Park Wi's YouTube channel "WiRacle" made one video private on the 15th and two videos private on the 16th, respectively.

Previously, on the 23rd of last month, a video titled "The Reason for Releasing CCTV Footage," which captured the situation in which he was involved in an accident while getting off the KTX, was deleted. Following this, an additional 13 videos were made private over the course of one week.

The number of videos continues to decrease. When the KTX-related video was made private, the channel had 798 videos, but currently, only 778 videos are public. This means that more than 20 videos have been taken down.

This movement to make videos private is drawing attention given that it occurred after the previously erupted KTX controversy.

On August 21, Park Wi released CCTV footage on his YouTube channel showing him falling over with his wheelchair after tripping over the foot of a social service worker while getting off the KTX. Regarding the situation at the time, Park Wi stated, "The social service worker did not do it intentionally, but I was angry simply because they placed their foot on the ramp." It is reported that the social service worker apologized to Park Wi immediately after the accident.

Subsequently, controversy grew as it became known that Park Wi filmed himself reenacting the accident scene without leaving the site, and that he edited out the staff's apology scenes while structuring the video centered on his own stance.

Ultimately, Park Wi apologized, stating, "I failed to consider the stance of the worker who did their best to help me and apologized politely," and declared a suspension of his YouTube activities. He also canceled scheduled lectures and voluntarily resigned from his position as a Seoul city ambassador.

Following this, past videos posted on Park Wi's YouTube channel were dug up, further intensifying the controversy.

In particular, Park Wi came under fire for remarks that appeared to trivialize disability in a previous video featuring visually impaired YouTuber One Shot Han Sol. Along with this, suspicions that actresses related to his father, director Park Chan-hong, are called adopted daughters, and claims that his wife Song Ji-eun is being treated poorly as a daughter-in-law, have resurfaced on the online platform OnLine, continuing the controversy.

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