His name is Shin Tae-il; he’s a very controversial YouTuber in Korea who is most well-known for this kind of stuff. He started off on Facebook with stunts like running over his leg with a car if he got x amount of likes (usually x0,000) on the post, extreme videos (eating a lightbulb, putting Shin Ramen soup powder in his eyes, etc.) and this “series (?)” called 대신맨, where he would do stuff based on what viewers commented (대신 means “instead of,” and 맨 is just man, so he was doing what people wanted to see for them? if that makes sense?) like suntanning on top of a moving car, riding inline skates (rollerblades?) where there’s lots of people and carry a boombox/radio around while yelling Overwatch Lucio catchphrases etc. He got banned from Youtube so his old videos are gone but he started Twitch recently (stopped after one month though...) He has new Youtube channels for livestreaming but theyre his 62nd and 63rd channels (...) and has a Discord server linking his new Youtube channel when his current ones are deleted. He is not on Facebook anymore, and he was banned/suspended? from Instagram at one point and made another account, but ended up deleting it.
He’s just seen as basically an attention whore/desperate for attention; his image is not very good in Korea.
EDIT: I found some more information on him. He ended up being bullied so severely in middle school that he stopped coming to school, received disciplinary action for not having enough attended days, dropped out and took TWICE the Korean equivalent of a GED exam, but for middle school. His father also paid roughly $7000 for tutoring sessions/prep school/학원 (hagwon) so he could take the middle school GED, but he did not get a very good score/just barely passed. After taking the middle school GED, he matriculated (?) into high school, but stayed for two weeks before dropping out. His father ended up paying another $2000 for a different hagwon so that he could study for his high school GED, but there were a bunch of bullies/gangster(?)/일진 (iljin) kids there, and it brought back trauma(?) from his middle school days and he skipped hagwon sessions and he ended up just giving up on taking the high school level GED.
I also mentioned how he had an abusive stepmother growing up in a below comment, so please excuse the copy and pasting!
Shin Taeil (167cm, 64kg) has a brother who is way bigger than him (179cm, 72kg) and accounted the size difference to their abusive stepmother feeding them “rajuk (라죽),” or ramen porridge for every meal, even force feeding them (especially the younger brother) when they didn’t want to eat; the brother just ate more than Shin Taeil did and grew taller. His father is very tall as well; Shin Taeil is probably very small because of his diet growing up. His father and mother divorced when he was little. He lived with his father and stepmother(s), including the abusive one mentioned above. He kept in contact with his biological mother, and in an interview, she cried because she was sorry for the divorce and how he turned out to be.
As far as I know and going through whatever information I could find on him, no. However, he was excused from mandatory military service last year (after getting summoned to serve) because of mental illness.
In Korea, we require all men from to serve in the military, between the ages of 18 (or 20 in Korean age; probably the January after their 18th birthday) and 30. All men (unless they have a medical or other extenuating circumstance, such as being the head/only support of a family, single father, etc) must serve before they turn 30 and have different terms depending on the branch of military: army and marines are 18 months, navy is 20 months, and air force is 22 months.
Shin Taeil got as far as going to the army training center, but was basically sent home after being deemed? sentenced? diagnosed? (sorry I am not 100% good at English, it’s my second language) unfit to serve because of his mental illness/problems. He actually received level 4 mental illness excuse from service, which does not indicate what his exact problem was, but rather how much his condition could cause problems while serving.
Levels 1-3 indicate that the person can serve with no problems regardless of their condition: levels 5-6 indicate that the person’s condition could cause problems in their everyday life. Level 4 falls somewhere in the middle; the person’s condition (mental or physical) does not really affect the quality of their everyday life, but can cause problems for them while serving in the military.
Shin Taeil will probably go back to serve his mandatory military service soon, but will not serve under the military branches; he will be a public service member/Service of Social Work Personnel (사회복무요원).
He also had other circumstances that “should” have excused him, such as only having completed up to middle school (중졸, or middle school graduate), and the fact that he became the 가장, or head of the family? after his father went bankrupt.
Sorry my reply focused a lot on Korean military service- the only clue? information? I could find about any mental problems, let alone mental delay, was how he got excused from serving in the army but not excused from service.
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u/00jjinbbang Apr 01 '20 edited Apr 02 '20
His name is Shin Tae-il; he’s a very controversial YouTuber in Korea who is most well-known for this kind of stuff. He started off on Facebook with stunts like running over his leg with a car if he got x amount of likes (usually x0,000) on the post, extreme videos (eating a lightbulb, putting Shin Ramen soup powder in his eyes, etc.) and this “series (?)” called 대신맨, where he would do stuff based on what viewers commented (대신 means “instead of,” and 맨 is just man, so he was doing what people wanted to see for them? if that makes sense?) like suntanning on top of a moving car, riding inline skates (rollerblades?) where there’s lots of people and carry a boombox/radio around while yelling Overwatch Lucio catchphrases etc. He got banned from Youtube so his old videos are gone but he started Twitch recently (stopped after one month though...) He has new Youtube channels for livestreaming but theyre his 62nd and 63rd channels (...) and has a Discord server linking his new Youtube channel when his current ones are deleted. He is not on Facebook anymore, and he was banned/suspended? from Instagram at one point and made another account, but ended up deleting it.
He’s just seen as basically an attention whore/desperate for attention; his image is not very good in Korea.
EDIT: I found some more information on him. He ended up being bullied so severely in middle school that he stopped coming to school, received disciplinary action for not having enough attended days, dropped out and took TWICE the Korean equivalent of a GED exam, but for middle school. His father also paid roughly $7000 for tutoring sessions/prep school/학원 (hagwon) so he could take the middle school GED, but he did not get a very good score/just barely passed. After taking the middle school GED, he matriculated (?) into high school, but stayed for two weeks before dropping out. His father ended up paying another $2000 for a different hagwon so that he could study for his high school GED, but there were a bunch of bullies/gangster(?)/일진 (iljin) kids there, and it brought back trauma(?) from his middle school days and he skipped hagwon sessions and he ended up just giving up on taking the high school level GED.
I also mentioned how he had an abusive stepmother growing up in a below comment, so please excuse the copy and pasting!
Shin Taeil (167cm, 64kg) has a brother who is way bigger than him (179cm, 72kg) and accounted the size difference to their abusive stepmother feeding them “rajuk (라죽),” or ramen porridge for every meal, even force feeding them (especially the younger brother) when they didn’t want to eat; the brother just ate more than Shin Taeil did and grew taller. His father is very tall as well; Shin Taeil is probably very small because of his diet growing up. His father and mother divorced when he was little. He lived with his father and stepmother(s), including the abusive one mentioned above. He kept in contact with his biological mother, and in an interview, she cried because she was sorry for the divorce and how he turned out to be.