SEVENTEEN’s Hoshi’s recent military service performance has sparked criticism

In recent days, SEVENTEEN‘s Hoshi‘s recent military service performance has sparked criticism after drawing attention and generating debates on social networks.

During the K-Pop idol’s fulfillment of his mandatory military service, he has been performing with the Korean Army Taekwondo Demonstration Team, which recently had activities in the United States, sharing their art with other cultures.

However, a viral video from their performance back in Korea has sparked a debate online due to the artist being announced as ‘SEVENTEEN’s performance leader Hoshi,’ generating criticism and accusations of using him as propaganda to push a more positive discourse on enlistment.

“not them introducing hoshi as svt performance leader hoshi and not as kwon soonyoung 😂”

“Technically, Hoshi is supposed to be serving as a Korean citizen so they should be using his government name. But because they wanna use his fame to bring more attention to their unit, they’re using his stage name and bringing up his group.”

“When you realize military is clout chasing 💀”

Although many fans do not agree with this decision of using the idol’s popularity for their benefit, some others understand that it is common and additionally express their admiration for the SEVENTEEN member for managing to get there and stay happy during the hard military phase.

“Just so it’s clear, hoshi chooses to be positive and happy because that’s the only way to move fwd and not because that kinda life is easy on him. It never is and not to get into how this is all part of a military propaganda..”

“As someone who has been going through multiple military eras, I’d say that this is so common that they used idols and celebrities as ‘the face’ of their specialized military units especially if the idols joined a marching band, musical, or a team demo like Hoshi that has a duty to promote the military through performance”