{"id":162020,"date":"2026-03-18T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=162020"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:40:00","slug":"cha-eunwoo-faces-backlash-over-japan-photo-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/cha-eunwoo-faces-backlash-over-japan-photo-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cha Eunwoo faces backlash over Japan photo exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cha Eunwoo<\/strong>\u2019s reputation has been going downhill since the tax controversy. The idol, who\u2019s currently serving in the South Korean military, is back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons following the announcement of a photo exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Local Japanese outlets confirmed that<strong> Cha Eunwoo will hold a photo exhibition titled<em> \u201cAfterimage\u201d<\/em> at NOVO in Tokyo from March 28 to May 12<\/strong>. In addition, Fantagio, Cha Eunwoo\u2019s music agency, confirmed the event and explained they had already been contracted in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-162023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cha-Eunwoo-might-profit-from-new-exhibition-to-help-his-tax-issue-.jpg\" alt=\"The idol faces major negativy feedback \" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cha-Eunwoo-might-profit-from-new-exhibition-to-help-his-tax-issue-.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cha-Eunwoo-might-profit-from-new-exhibition-to-help-his-tax-issue--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cha-Eunwoo-might-profit-from-new-exhibition-to-help-his-tax-issue--1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cha-Eunwoo-might-profit-from-new-exhibition-to-help-his-tax-issue--768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cha-Eunwoo-might-profit-from-new-exhibition-to-help-his-tax-issue--1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cha-Eunwoo-might-profit-from-new-exhibition-to-help-his-tax-issue--860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cThis exhibition is a business carried out by the agency, which holds exclusive rights to the artist\u2019s image IP. It is not a<strong> profit-generating<\/strong> activity directly conducted by Cha Eun Woo as an active duty soldier.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>Negative feedback and backlash made a strong presence online as some K-Netizens expressed their criticism. <strong>They believe he is trying to make a profit from the new photo exhibition to cover the tax issue he is locked in<\/strong> nowadays. Ultimately, K-Netizens are not happy with the current decisions made by Fantagio and Cha Eunwoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cha Eunwoo\u2019s reputation has been going downhill since the tax controversy. The idol, who\u2019s currently serving in the South Korean military, is back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons following the announcement of a photo exhibition. Local Japanese outlets confirmed that Cha Eunwoo will hold a photo exhibition titled \u201cAfterimage\u201d at NOVO in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":162021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[1967],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-cha-eunwoo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162020","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=162020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162024,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162020\/revisions\/162024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162020"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=162020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}