Se7en, Sangchu, and others revealed to have served less prison time than their original sentence

[frantastic.livejournal.com]

Se7en and Sangchu spent 10 days in military jail as everything expected, but it turns out that originally, they were supposed to serve 12 days.

An insider in the Minstry of Defense told media outlet Sports Seoul, "After inspecting the situation of the management of the celebrity recruits, it was discovered that the celebrity recruits' sentences were decreased by 1-2 days than the original sentence. It was said that the celebrity recruits' confessions were extenuated, and that was why their punishments were adjusted, but now the Ministry of Defense cannot avoid accusations that they are favoring the celebrity recruits."

According to documents that Sports Seoul received, the recruits were supposed to get either 5 days or 12 days, but ended up getting 4 days and 10 days.

A representative in the Ministry of Defense said, "We took into account the point that the celebrity recruits were deeply regretful, so the punishments were lower than the original. However, as you can tell from their confessions, they admit their faults but they blame their mistake on the environment that they couldn't help it, and we did not feel like they were actually sincere. There are no legal problems, but this seems like a case of favoritism."

source: Sports Seoul + akp

Comments

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

this whole situation is so messy

[royu-kiyo.livejournal.com]

Ugh, it's like the army doesn't know how to punish celebrities. No bloody discipline.

[oppameansit.livejournal.com]

"We took into account the point that the celebrity recruits were deeply regretful, so the punishments were lower than the original."


well gosh, if being regretful is all it takes...

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

LMAO Ikr?

[yukahoo.livejournal.com]

This is so confusing. So someone from the Ministry of Defence is leaking that the army is showing favouritism. And then someone from the Ministry comments that 'yeah we set them loose because they were sorry but it doesn't seem like they were all that sincere with their apology, now does it?'

I mean what? It's like they're setting the celebrity recruits to fail. Entrapment almost.

[candycrush808.livejournal.com]

Are these public records? If not, who's the leak ffs.

[atelierlune.livejournal.com]

I think that's a good question. Maybe these max sentences are guidelines from which to start from.

[nyankee.livejournal.com]

People get early reprieves for outstanding behavior all the time.

Well, "all the time" might be a bit of an overstatement, but it's certainly often enough that it isn't that unusual.

[luvey.livejournal.com]

considering how the public is looking hard at the military now and their treatment towards celebs, this was a bad move so soon after the issues they have had.

[shintotchi.livejournal.com]

That this leak happened, and that the army continues to give preferential treatment to the recruits being punished for taking advantage of preferential treatment says alot. ALOT. Get it together SK.

I can place very little blame on the celebrities when you all but hand them the bottle to drink out of. In an environment that encourages group think, where superiors enable rule breaking and probably even encourage it, why would anyone want to say no? Unless they were a traditional no-rule breaking sort of person in the first place (which very few people are), they would go with the flow.

I hate to give way to the "everyone else was doing it" sort of excuse, but it's becoming more and more clear how huge of a factor it actually is. Yes, oppa did mean it, but so did oppa's superiors who are trying to cover their butts. It's pretty disgusting that this happens and the PR spins it so it's all on the celebrity recruits.

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

So tl;dr they were deeply regretful but not sincere?? Then the Ministry lowered the punishments and went oop we shouldn't have?
Lol everyone is a mess.

[jae-bias-bitch.livejournal.com]

what sin did se7en do though...his life is so sad right now

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

why wouldn't they just leave the punishment alone? It's only a few days and it's not like they were in a maximum security prison. It's like they are asking for another shitstorm

[xblackchristmas.livejournal.com]

ugh what a timing for song joongki to enter his enlistment...

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

GDI SE7EN!