K-pop star Kim Jae-joong gave his fans the scare of their lives on April Fools' Day 2020. Jaejoongย who is a singer with boy band JYJ, took to Instagram on Wednesday saying that he had tested positive for coronavirus. The social media post caused quite a lot of hue and cry among his fans. Following which he edited the Instagram post to say that what he said was not true. He posted the clarification 50 minutes after He also wrote a letter apologising for his actionsย stating that the post was to raise awareness about the issue.ย K-Pop Band BTS Cancel Their South Korea Tour Over Coronavirus Outbreak.

Kim Jaejoong has been promoting his newly released single in Japan during which he took to social media claiming that he was infected with the deadly disease. Following which a radio slot where he was to perform was cancelled. He was scheduled to appear on NHK Radio's 'Furuya Masayukiโ€™s PopA' radio show on April 1 as a regular DJ.ย But the official website stated, "Jaejoong had been scheduled to appear, but due to personal circumstances there will be different content on the show today".

An excerpt of the Instagram post by Jaejoong which was translated by Soompi reads, "Although this did go quite far for April Foolโ€™s Day, so many people worried about me in a short span of time...Oh and I donโ€™t think of this as an April Foolโ€™s joke. My family and my friends are getting sick..and dying..itโ€™s never !! just someone elseโ€™s problem. I wanted to tell you that protecting myself is protecting the precious people around us...I will accept all punishment I receive from this post. I hope all of you are healthy."

Here is The Instagram Post:

 

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ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋  ํ–‰๋™์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋„ ์ € ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋„ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ์ œ๊ฐ€ SNS ์“ด ๊ธ€๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค 19๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํ”ผํ•ด ๋ฐ›์œผ์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค, ํ–‰์ •์—…๋ฌด์— ์ง€์žฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ฃ„์†กํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์”€๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ณ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋Š” ํŒ๋‹จ. ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋Š์Šจํ•ด์ง„ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ฑ์˜ ์ธ์‹. ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค 19๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํ”ผํ•ด ๋ฐ›์„ ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์ตœ์†Œํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฒฝ๊ฐ์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์œผ๋ฉด ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์—์„œ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ด„์ด ์ฐพ์•„์™€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ด์ง„ ๊ณ„์ ˆ์˜ ์•ผ์™ธ์—์„œ์˜ ์—ฌ๊ฐ€์ƒํ™œ, ๊ฐœํ•™์ด ๋ฏธ๋ค„์ง€๊ณ  ์—ฌ์œ ๋กœ์›Œ์ง„ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ๋ฐ€ํ๋œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ์˜ ์ ‘์ด‰ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ2์˜ ์ œ3์˜ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ํŒจ๋‹‰์„ ๋‚ณ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๋ฌด์„ญ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋„ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์ „ ํ์•” ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ์‹œ๊ณ  ์ค„๊ณง ๋ณ‘์›์— ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ณ‘์›์— ๊ณ„์‹  ์˜๋ฃŒ์ง„๊ณผ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ์˜ ์ผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ •์ž‘ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค 19๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ ์ž ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ํ‰์ƒ์‹œ์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ” ์—†๋Š” ๋ณต์žฅ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐฉ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€์ฑ„ ์—ฌ๊ฐ€์ƒํ™œ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์— ๊ฒฝ๊ฐ์‹ฌ์ด ํ•„์š” ํ•˜๋‹ค ์ƒ๊ฐ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋งค์ฒด์™€ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์—์„œ๋„ ํฌ๊ณ  ์ž‘์€ ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๊ทธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒํ•ด์„œ๋“  ํ˜„์‹œ์ ์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ฑ์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์ œ๋ฐœ. ๊ท€ ๊ธฐ์šธ์—ฌ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์ œ๋ฐœ. ์•„ํ”„์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ์•„ํ””์„ ๊ฒช์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”." ๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ์ œ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์—์„œ๋งˆ์ €๋„ ํ™•์ง„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ ๊ณณ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ž€ ๊ฑธ ํ™•์‹ ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋‘๋ ค์›€์€ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ ๋Š๊ปด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์žƒ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ์•ผ ๋ฐ˜์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ํƒœ๋„๋Š” ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•˜๊ณ  ํž˜๋“ค์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋”.. ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ด์„œ ์ด ํž˜๋“  ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ด๊ฒจ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ๊ธ€..์ง€๋‚˜์น˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€๋‚˜์น  ์ •๋„์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์ฃผ์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด์•ผ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋น„๋‚œ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ๊ธ€๋กœ ์ธํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์• ์“ฐ์‹œ๋Š” ์ •๋ถ€๊ธฐ๊ด€๊ณผ ์˜๋ฃŒ์ง„๋“ค ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€์นจ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ƒํ™œ์„ ํฌ๊ธฐ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ทน๋ณต์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํž˜์“ฐ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ƒ์‹ฌ์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฐ ์  ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Kim Jaejoong is also scheduled to appear on Japanese shows including TV Asahiโ€™s 'Music Station', NHKโ€™s 'Tamaki Koji Show', and NHKโ€™s 'The Covers'. Coronavirus concerns have affected the K-pop industry as many events have been cancelled or postponed. Multiple TV shows have been halted and some artists have evenย postponed theirย music plans.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Apr 02, 2020 05:20 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).