YG Ent Clarifies Reports Of GDragon receiving Special Treatment at Military Hospital

[juhli.livejournal.com]

YG Entertainment Clarifies Reports Of #GDragon Receiving Special Treatment At Military Hospital https://t.co/z3rLjwqSDB pic.twitter.com/G2E7E8sEzM

— Soompi (@soompi) June 25, 2018

On June 25, Dispatch published a report saying that the BIGBANG member has been on sick leave from the military since June 19 due to ankle problems and will be discharged from the hospital on June 28. The article reported that he is in a VIP hospital room for colonels, which has air conditioning, a refrigerator, and a TV, contrary to the other soldiers of the same rank who stay in rooms of four, six, or eight. Also according to Dispatch’s report, someone appearing to be a manager visited past the allowed visiting hours.

In response, YG Entertainment revealed an official statement that begins, “As G-Dragon is currently of soldier status, it took some time to check on the situation, so we ask for your understanding.”

“We heard that G-Dragon is currently receiving rehabilitation treatment at the hospital after recently receiving surgery on his ankle. Mostly family and close friends visited, and there were no staff from the agency.”

“Checking with his family, the report is very malicious and not true. There was no special treatment, there is no room for colonels at the hospital, and he was hospitalized following the normal procedure,” the agency explains.

On his condition, YG Entertainment shared, “Since before his enlistment, G-Dragon expressed pain due to a dislocated shoulder and spraining his ankle constantly during the world tour, and his condition worsened further during military training.

“The examination results showed a serious condition as bone fragments were going around damaging his ligaments and muscles, causing infection. It was an inevitable situation for him to receive surgery to get bone fragments removed, and we are aware that he was recommended a large university hospital rather than the military hospital and received surgery for the removal of the bone fragments and ligament reconstruction.”

“As all knee and ankle surgeries are, rehabilitation treatment must be carried out with surgery. As it is a very important process of treatment, we are aware that he is receiving rehabilitation treatment at the military hospital.”

YG Entertainment clarified what was reported regarding his hospital room. “G-Dragon’s hospital room is not a VIP room but a small 1-person hospital room for normal soldiers. This was a suitable action taken to prevent commotion and chaos at a hospital with lots of visitors, and we have confirmed that the special treatment mentioned by the news outlet is not true.”

“In addition, we have confirmed that G-Dragon is strictly adhering to the military’s sick leave period and is receiving rehabilitation treatment by giving up his personal vacation time,” the statement concludes.

G-Dragon enlisted in the military on February 27 and is set to be discharged on November 26, 2019. It was revealed in May that he was receiving surgery on his ankle.

The official said even people with severe snoring can end up using the 1 person room.

The general ward at the hospital also contains A/C, Fridge, TV

No visitors were there past the 5pm time limit.

— mes #TeamPinky (@OH_mes) 25. Juni 2018

Source: Dispatch, StarNews via soompi, @soompi, Edaily via @OH_mes

Comments

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

G-Dragon getting special treatment, that surely hasn't ever happened before!!!!

[jyusou.livejournal.com]

lmao great first comment 👍

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

lol

[wafflesnmilk.livejournal.com]

I’ve seen “He’s a celebrity he can’t be expected to share room with other people” like your oppa is a citizen serving the country before he’s a celeb plz or some security stuff like...It’s a military hospital it’s not like most normal people who ain’t visiting are going to stroll in and if there were some cray cray anyway isn’t a seperate room just easier to target lmao.

I’ve got no bones to pick with GD but the way fans go waaaaay over to defend their fave lol like it’s okay guys doesn’t matter if he oet special treatment or not he will probably get away with it + it’s unlikely someone as high profile as him will come into any real danger and people will forget in no time and he’s still loaded when he’s out of the army, it’s fine~

[towel-oppa.livejournal.com]

It's so annoying that dispatch can't leave him alone.
Im so stressed about any news on BB members actually serving as I'm afraid it will be another scandal.

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

Why should he use his personal vacation time for rehabilitation? Shouldn’t that be automatically considered sick time?

[welljustguess.livejournal.com]

I see.
Seems like Dispatch found that GD is using 1-person room unlike others and decide that this gonna be a good article, while actually anyone has same chance to use the room depending on their condition.

[lulufairybubble.livejournal.com]

Is it weird to anybody else that the article calls him G Dragon? It's probably just me lol. But in my mind he isnt G Dragon right now hes Jiyong.

[tsubaki874.livejournal.com]

In the Dispatch article they do call him by Kwon Jiyong, but they call him G-Dragon in the StarNews article. I guess YG responded to StarNews and went with G-Dragon over KJY dunno I agree I think it's weird to use his stage name, I guess it gets more clicks on their articles

[ohbubbajoan.livejournal.com]

Ew the injury sounds nasty as dispatch

[ashdevilrun23.livejournal.com]

Ppl are just gonna use this as an excuse to hate him and ignore the fact he has had problems with his ankle since that tour back in 2013

[scionofawhisper.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not so much the injury itself, but rather the extra care he's getting for it. Seems like if other soldiers had the same issue their hospital care would be on a way different, lower level...

[ashdevilrun23.livejournal.com]

the separate room? that could also be a security thing..
but it's true that as a celebrity he actually gets the option of being separated from his fellow soldiers. regular soldiers could never

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

I feel like this is on the hospital/military who made the decision instead of GD. and idky they keep doing things like this when netizens has been salty about special treatment for celebs in army

[towel-oppa.livejournal.com]

They just want him to go down, dispatch has been si nasty with him...

[symmetra.livejournal.com]

i heard he requested a one-man room because apparently someone in the army wrote personal information (by personal information, i mean like location of tattoos, hand size, and feet size) about gd and sent it to his girlfriend then the girlfriend uploaded the information (it was a pic) onto instagram.

[daynr.livejournal.com]

ewwww. how invasive.

[ashdevilrun23.livejournal.com]

Omg wtf
Is there a post here on this?

[symmetra.livejournal.com]

there's no post about it on omona but there is one on pannchoa! (link: https://pann-choa.blogspot.com/2018/06/enter-talk-goosebumps-treatment-gd.html) i heard the info from my friend who lives in korea and even he was grossed out.

[ashdevilrun23.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[semianna.livejournal.com]

ewww that is so creepy and disturbing

Thanks for linking!

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

That is so creepy

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

yep, according to nb... that person kept a detailed diary full of observations about gd rutine and habits ... literally like a creppy stalker in your own unit

he was living sasaengs dream life

http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.com/2018/06/netizens-become-more-understanding-of.html?m=1

[jasmineakaiumi.livejournal.com]

at first i rolled my eyes but after the private info leak from one of his fellow soldiers it makes me wonder if celebs receive special treatment in order to keep the peace? it's impossible to know what's going on from the inside and maybe some celebrities get shitty people in their unit that harass them in one way or another and it disrupts training/army life etc.

i mean this more in general for celebs serving, not for GD in particular.

[miss-suunshinee.livejournal.com]

if this is special treatment i cant even imagine what kind of crappy medical care regular soldier get everyday .... what he got sound normal for most countries standars

instead of focusing on celebrities korea should upgrade their poor enlistment system

[tungatunga.livejournal.com]

Honestly I would be not surprised if received special treatment, he is not like any other soldier and I doubt other soldiers treat like one. Celebrity soldiers are probably huge headache for army as they can't dismissed any fuck up or health concern.

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

yep, apparently gd had a creepy sasaeng in his own unit ... dude made a diary full of pictures and detailed reports about gd habits & rutine .... then his girlfriend shared everything on sns

http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.com/2018/06/netizens-become-more-understanding-of.html?m=1

[semianna.livejournal.com]

that injury sounds super gross and painful. also that multiple bone fragments just hanging around and damaging muscle and ligaments?? that shit doesn't just happen from a couple sprained ankles - you have to come down pretty hard for a sprain to pull of a bone fragment (as I unfortunately learned the hard way).
YG is trash for letting this go on and not giving him time to address it earlier/rest.

also how do you even get an infection inside your ankle if it's all internal and not exposed to anything??? so confused...

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

also what's wrong with the hospital room having AC and TV? He's not in jail, don't most hospital rooms have those?

GD has more fan boys than the typical male celebrity, and his privacy has already been violated by that creep who took notes on him.