He mentioned the singer as one of the people in the book.
Jang Ye Chan, who is 34 years old, is a member of the People Power Party (PPP), which is the conservative political party that runs South Korea right now.
He is running to be the leader of the party’s youth group.
Jang‘s campaign seems to have taken a hit on Sunday, February 26, when an old fanfiction he wrote resurfaced. The singer IU is supposedly shown in a bad way in the fan fiction.
In 2015, Jang began writing Gangnam Huata, a web novel that was released in parts over the next year.
In the story, there is an oriental medicine doctor who helps his patients get better by having sexual relations with them.
IU‘s real name, Lee Ji Eun, is the name of one of the female characters in the book. This Lee Ji Eun in the book is also a singer, but she can’t hit high notes because she has lumps on her vocal cords.
Everyone in the country loves IU, which is clear from the fact that her nickname is “Nation’s Little Sister.”
So, it was clear that her fans would not like this portrayal of the singer. Some people also said that the book might be about IU’s time on “Good Day,” when she was a teenager.
This makes it even worse that the singer is shown in a sexual way. Kim Hye Soo, Cho Yeo Jeong, and Krystal, who are all famous Korean actresses, were also used as characters in Jang‘s book.
Fans of IU and supporters of Lee Ki In, another PPP member who is running for the same office as Jang, have both said that the way Jang wrote about the singer in his novel was wrong.
But Jang doesn’t care about the criticism because he said it was all just a “political move” by the left-wing media and was proud of his past work.
“If you don’t like what’s in a fantasy book, will anyone be able to turn it into a movie, drama, webtoon, or book? I’m proud of my past as a writer of web novels and webcomics, and I’ll do something new to fight politicians’ biases against the arts and culture.”—Jang Ye Chan
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