K-pop star Jaejoong has come under fire for pretending he contacted coronavirus. Fears for the JYJ member first arose when he posted on Instagram that he has been hospitalised with the virus.
His label C-Jes Entertainment told South Korean media that they were ‘looking into’ thing, but less than an hour after his original post, Jaejoong admitted it had been a joke for April Fool’s Day but wanted to ‘raise awareness’ of the deadly virus.
The star said that he would ‘receive all punishment that I am due for this post’. Editing the caption on his original, now-deleted post on Instagram, Jaejoong wrote: ‘To have someone you love or someone precious to you be infected with a virus?