{"id":157532,"date":"2026-01-26T08:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=157532"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:50:48","slug":"cha-eunwoo-breaks-the-silence-about-evading-taxes-with-his-military-enlistment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/cha-eunwoo-breaks-the-silence-about-evading-taxes-with-his-military-enlistment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cha Eunwoo breaks the silence about evading taxes with his military enlistment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The K-Netizens and<strong> Cha Eunwoo<\/strong>\u2019s fans are deeply worried regarding the situation the idol is struggling with right now. The idol has sparked strong public backlash after touching a sensitive nerve, tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>On January 26, 2026, Cha Eunwoo finally spoke out about the controversy of the $15 million in unpaid taxes. South Korean media outlets reported that covert advertising involved a family-owned restaurant, and suspicions that his military enlistment was meant to avoid scrutiny. However, the idol released a<strong> personal statement<\/strong> to clear the air.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-157553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cha-Eunwoo-wants-to-cooperate-.jpg\" alt=\"The idol might be facing jail for his unpaid taxes\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cha-Eunwoo-wants-to-cooperate-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cha-Eunwoo-wants-to-cooperate--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cha-Eunwoo-wants-to-cooperate--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cha-Eunwoo-wants-to-cooperate--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cha-Eunwoo-wants-to-cooperate--1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cha-Eunwoo-wants-to-cooperate--680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cha-Eunwoo-wants-to-cooperate--200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cha Wunwoo expects his words to convey even a small sense of apology to those who were hurt because of him. He stated his enlistment wasn\u2019t a deliberate decision to escape the controversy. He also explained that last year, he reached a point where he could no longer postpone enlistment, which prevented him from fully concluding the tax audit process.<strong> He is willing to cooperate with any further investigations and take responsibility for the final judgment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cha Eunwoo\u2019s decision to issue a statement is widely seen as a response to rapidly <strong>worsening public opinion<\/strong>. Fantagio, his music agency, has remained completely silent as the controversy is rising exponentially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The K-Netizens and Cha Eunwoo\u2019s fans are deeply worried regarding the situation the idol is struggling with right now. The idol has sparked strong public backlash after touching a sensitive nerve, tax evasion. On January 26, 2026, Cha Eunwoo finally spoke out about the controversy of the $15 million in unpaid taxes. South Korean media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":157533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[1967],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-cha-eunwoo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157532"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=157532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}