Political Remarks of Celebrities

Recently, remark of Bae Seul-ki, a Korean actress, was controversial on Twitter. She said "It makes me loose desire to vote. I hate people who follow ideology of North Korea." by her Twitter account.

She has been denounced by public outcry because of her Tweet. Many people criticize that her comment was imprudent, and they say she needed to be cautious at choosing words because she is a celebrity. After this controversy in the Internet, Bae Seul-ki posted a written apology.

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Despite her apology, she was criticized again because of some words of her posting. She used a little vulgar word in the course of her Tweet. People pointed out this, saying there isn't sincerity in her apology.

In contrast to Bae Seul-ki's case, Yu Ah-in who is a Korean actor won other's favor through remarks with his own beliefs. 

He has often expressed his opinion about social issues on his Twitter. At first, he didn't get much good feeling from people, but his consistent remarking what he believes he must do has been attracting more attention than ever.

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Celebrity is one of the people of this nation before being a celebrity. So they can express their opinion through Twitter of Facebook freely. However, they should take responsibility for their statements since celebrities have a great deal of influence on public.

Nowadays, many celebrities have officially encouraged vote through Twitter. Election Day of Korea is coming! Let's look forward to good influence of their vote encouragement.

(Tweet of a famous novelist who has a lot of followers in Korea.)