Yoo Seung Joon, A Former K-pop Star, Returns To Korea After A 21-Year Ban, Winning A Supreme Court Case

Yoo Seung Joon won a lawsuit to return to Korea after 21 years.

After being banned in 2002, the former K-pop singer has been fighting in court to enter South Korea. Yuo Seung Joon was supposed to serve as a public servant to fulfill his military service, but he became a US citizen that year. Only one person had been banned from South Korea for getting foreign citizenship. He was denied admission to Korea with an overseas Korean entry visa.

In his appeal trial lawsuit against the Consul General in Los Angeles, the 3rd Division of the Supreme Court sided with Yoo Seung Joon on November 30. The action aims to get the Consul General to provide the former celebrity a passport and visa. Yoo Seung Joon filed a second case after the LA Consulate General denied his visa after his Supreme Court win. The second trial reversed the first trial’s ban on Yoo Seung Joon entering Korea, but the South Korean government appealed.

However, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal, and Yoo Seung Joon won. Yoo Seung Joon may receive a visa from the government after the Supreme Court upheld his ruling. Yoo Seung Joon will return to South Korea for the first time in 21 years if he gets a visa.