Taking advantage of this, Lim Hye-dong threatened Kim Ha-sung’s agency, saying, “I will report to the police and the Military Manpower Administration and inform the media to prevent baseball in the United States,” adding, “When I called the Military Manpower Administration, if Kim Ha-sung is punished, he should join the military.”
Kim Ha-sung also said, “The violation of the quarantine law was true,” adding, “At that time, I was scared to be known, and I am sorry.”
According to Kim Ha-sung, more than five people, including Kim Ha-sung and Lim Hye-dong, gathered at a bar in Gangnam-gu, Seoul in February 2021, when gatherings of more than five people were banned due to COVID-19. At that time, Kim Ha-sung was a soldier.
Kim Ha-sung participated as a member of the national baseball team at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games in 2018 and won a gold medal, receiving special military service exemption. However, in order to remove his military status, he had to fill more than 500 hours of volunteer work, but Kim Ha-sung had not completed his time when there was a drinking party.
However, the legal community predicted that Kim Ha-sung would not be sentenced to more than a safe. “There are very few people in the group, and we didn’t make a big fuss,” said Park Sung-ha, a lawyer at the law firm Dong-in. “Even if the charges against Kim Ha-sung are belatedly filed and the investigation proceeds, there is little possibility of a safe or even more punishment.”
In fact, few cases have been sentenced to more than a safe for violating the quarantine law. Since July 2021, when social distancing was in the fourth stage, Pastor Jeon Kwang-hoon of Sarang Jeil Church, who violated the executive order prohibiting gathering five times, including face-to-face worship with 150 believers, was fined only 3 million won.메이저 토토사이트