I didn't know who he was...Former ”BIGBANG” VI, his completely different and grown-up appearance is a hot topic

V.I from the Korean group BIGBANG has been the topic of conversation for his recent updates on his virtuous appearance.

　On 25th (today), a video showing V.I's recent situation was posted on an online community. The video shows V.I meeting and talking with officials at an exhibition hall in a foreign country. He was wearing a crisp suit and black-rimmed glasses, but his muscular appearance attracted attention, unlike his previous slender appearance.

　V.I. has been charged with violating the Law on Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes, etc. (embezzlement), violating the Food Sanitation Law, embezzlement in the course of business, violating the Special Law on Punishment of Sexual Assault Offences, etc. (using cameras, etc. to film), pandering (mediation), habitual gambling, violating the Foreign Exchange Transactions Law, special assault teachers, violating the Law on Punishment of Acts such as Pandering ( He was tried on nine charges, including prostitution. After a lengthy trial, he was sentenced to one year and six months in prison and was transferred from a military prison to a civilian prison in Yeoju, where he served the rest of his sentence and was fully released in May 2023.

　In 2019, V.I caused social repercussions as a key figure in Club Burning Sun, which took South Korea by surprise, and left the BIGBANG group with a serious loss of image, and after his maturity release, his appearance enjoying his daily life, from the two-timing scandal to club parties abroad, birthday parties and other activities that are as flamboyant as ever, caused controversy This caused controversy.

　He was also heavily criticised in August this year when he was known to be a special guest at an event in Indonesia called ‘Burning Sansrabaya’. When the furore grew, TSV Management, the organising body, posted an apologetic video on SNS, saying: ‘The posters we distributed did not say that V.I. would be participating. The title Burning Sun Surabaya was to convey the idea of staying safe at the club and party’, it explained.

　People's attention has been focused on V.I, who was caught abroad in a flash of change.