{"id":165337,"date":"2026-04-28T12:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=165337"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:56:40","slug":"cha-eunwoo-makes-his-first-public-appearance-since-his-tax-evasion-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/cha-eunwoo-makes-his-first-public-appearance-since-his-tax-evasion-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Cha Eunwoo makes his first public appearance since his tax evasion settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days,\u00a0<strong>Cha Eunwoo<\/strong> drew attention by making his first public appearance since his tax evasion settlement during an event of the military band.<\/p>\n<p>On April 28th, a series of photos of the idol began circulating online, reportedly taken during a <strong>military band event<\/strong> held on April 23rd, where he appeared on stage dressed in a neatly tailored suit, holding a microphone and saluting with a disciplined posture.<\/p>\n<p>Cha Eunwoo stands out among the orchestra for his <strong>impressive visuals<\/strong>, generating once again comments of praise for his appearance even amid his hard work in the military service set to conclude on January 27, 2027.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-165351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cha-Eunwoo-reappears-publicly-after-his-apology-letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cha-Eunwoo-reappears-publicly-after-his-apology-letter.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cha-Eunwoo-reappears-publicly-after-his-apology-letter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cha-Eunwoo-reappears-publicly-after-his-apology-letter-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cha-Eunwoo-reappears-publicly-after-his-apology-letter-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cha-Eunwoo-reappears-publicly-after-his-apology-letter-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cha-Eunwoo-reappears-publicly-after-his-apology-letter-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the past months, the actor was involved in controversy over alleged tax issues involving approximately 20 billion KRW, or 15 million dollars, in <strong>questioned filings<\/strong>, gaining much attention in the worldwide media.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>ASTRO<\/strong> member recently addressed the controversy through his social networks, stating that he respected the procedures of the <strong>National Tax Service<\/strong> and had fully paid the related taxes. He also issued a formal apology for the concern and disappointment caused his fans.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f Vocalist Lee Dongmin of the Ministry of National Defense military band in action<\/p>\n<p>Singer Cha Eunwoo is back!\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Note: According to the original source, this update is from April 23.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CHAEUNWOO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CHAEUNWOO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EC%B0%A8%EC%9D%80%EC%9A%B0?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\ucc28\uc740\uc6b0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EC%9D%B4%EB%8F%99%EB%AF%BC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\uc774\ub3d9\ubbfc<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A6%E3%83%8C?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\u30c1\u30e3\u30a6\u30cc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E8%BD%A6%E9%93%B6%E4%BC%98?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\u8f66\u94f6\u4f18<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B6%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\u0e0a\u0e32\u0e2d\u0e36\u0e19\u0e2d\u0e39<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E8%BB%8A%E9%8A%80%E5%84%AA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\u8eca\u9280\u512a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cHcKs9tjRT\">pic.twitter.com\/cHcKs9tjRT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CHA EUNWOO \ucc28\uc740\uc6b0 INTERNATIONAL (@ChaEunwooINTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChaEunwooINTL\/status\/2048946486109434349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days,\u00a0Cha Eunwoo drew attention by making his first public appearance since his tax evasion settlement during an event of the military band. On April 28th, a series of photos of the idol began circulating online, reportedly taken during a military band event held on April 23rd, where he appeared on stage dressed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":165352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[1967],"tmauthors":[3732],"class_list":{"0":"post-165337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"tag-cha-eunwoo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165337","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165354,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165337\/revisions\/165354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165337"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=165337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}