[theqoo] HA YOUNG, UNENDING CONTROVERSIES… LOCAL HISTORICAL RECORDS SURFACE LINKING GREAT-GRANDFATHER AHN SANG-HO TO ALLEGATIONS OF KING GOJONG’S POISONING

The record regarding the origins of place names and clan histories in Gunpo City, produced in 2004 by the Research Institute of Traditional Cultural Contents at Kyonggi University upon the city’s commission, introduces An Sang-ho as a “modern-era figure” and discusses allegations that, following the death of King Gojong, An Sang-ho (who served as a royal physician) and others administered poison at the instigation of the Japanese. However, the text emphasizes that these claims remain mere allegations rather than confirmed facts, noting that a lack of relevant documentation makes it impossible to verify their authenticity.

However, they emphasized that the information remains an allegation rather than a confirmed fact, noting that a lack of relevant records makes it impossible to verify its authenticity.

This stance contrasts with the content found in the ‘History of Anyang City’, which sparked public outrage by describing Ahn Sang-ho as an “independence activist.” In 2020, Anyang City had characterized Ahn as a figure with strong anti-Japanese nationalist sentiment and claimed he had suffered unjustly due to false accusations regarding the theory that Emperor Gojong was poisoned; however, the city recently made the relevant text private after Ahn’s past activities came under renewed scrutiny.

Meanwhile, the controversy surrounding Ha Young arose after she shared her family history during a recent variety show appearance to promote a drama. She stated that her family, spanning four generations from her great-grandfather to her older sister, has pursued careers in medicine, noting that her great-grandfather was the first doctor to open a practice in Hanyang after studying Western medicine in Japan and had even treated Emperor Gojong.

1. She should just give up, and immigrate to Japan

2. Go live in Japan

3. For any South Korean, it is common sense to shun and condemn pro-Japanese collaborators. I am left wondering why the director and production team failed to cut ties with that descendant of a collaborator, whose ancestor even appears in history textbooks

4. Can you please leave already, please!!!!!!!!

5. It’s amazing that she’s still living in Korea… I seem to recall hearing that the offspring of Yi Wan-yong emigrated

6. Everyone involved with her should leave the country as well

7. Honestly, shouldn’t the whole family be unable to show their faces in public?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s absolutely absurd that she’s even active as celebrities

8. Wow, he was such a legendary, bona fide traitor that people keep digging up the past. Isn’t she ashamed? And she’s still acting? Unbelievable, it’s just absurd

9. What a shameless family

10. Freaking shameless, they probably don’t even know about shame