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= Lee Seung-chul =

From Debut to Hardship
When Lee Seung-chul was young, he usually hung out with Kim Tae Won, the leader of a rock band called “Boowhal.” After the failure of the band called “The End”, one of the members in Boowhal asked Lee Seung-chul to look for a singer for their band. However, Lee Seung-chul could not find the vocal singer who sang better than him. Therefore, Kim Tae Won decided to ask Lee Seung-chul to become a vocal singer. In order to work as a vocal singer, he needed a sound system. He asked his mother to help him obtain it. With the help of his great uncle who was a principal at Daeshin High School at the time, bought a sound system that worth a year salary of his mother’s job.

The first debut concept of Boowhal is similar to the sound of famous British artists Boy George. The media treated Lee Seung-chul as Korea’s Boy George.

In 1989, similar to how Boy George ended their performing due to the drug issue, Lee Seung-chul also ended his career due to drug abuse.

In 1990, Lee Seung-chul again had to stop his performing due to drug use.

In 2000s, he restores his negative image.

"Unification Song"
The song 그날에 which directly translates to English as “That Day" is controversial due to the meaning of the song. The song is also referred to as "Unification Song" in Korean 통일송. This song was made by the request from Yoon Il-Gun who is a defector from North Korea and was the reporter in North Korea. This song was made for “With-U”, a chorus group for North Korean youth defector. The song is also related to the One Nation campaign (ON campaign). ON campaign is to remind that South Korea and North Korea were one nation.

Lee Seung-chul’s agency decided to release his song “That day” for free in order to protest the Japanese Immigration Office’s decision. Lee Seung-chul said “This song is originally to overcome the tension and reconcile. It is not about enmity and conflict like Japanese side think.” “This is a song about peace and wishes to put more value on its unification.”

“From this we can talk about our beautiful territory, Dok-do. Also, he hopes people can think about unification in Korea.” He said “From this incident, he will not submit under the pressure, and decided to talk more about Dok-do.”

Marijuana Scandal
Lee Seung-chul was involved in a drug scandal in 1989. The singer said due to the humiliation of being strip-searched at a jail cell quit.

On November 9th, 2014, Lee Seung-chul could not enter Haneda Airport in Japan. He was being held for four hours and had to return to South Korea. According to his agency, this is due to the location where he released his song called 그날에 (direct translation: That Day). The location where he released his song, was Dok-do island. This is an issue because of the sovereignty dispute that goes along with Dok-do, it is claimed by Japan, South and North Korea. His agency argues that Japan did not allow him into the county as a form of retaliation toward Lee Seung-chul and the meaning behind his song. In addition to this, the agency said they will fight for this injustice. The Japanese Immigration office did not give much explanation about the reason why he could not enter except he had smoked marijuana 20 years ago. However, this could be considered an issue since he has entered Japan 15 times after his marijuana controversy.

Relation to Former President Assumptions
Lee Seung-chul's former manager Baek Kang-ki posted a picture Lee Seung-chul's had taken with President Park Geun-hye. This caused allegations of the singer's connections to the Choi Soon-sil scandal. Since Lee Seung-chul has been arrested twice for smoking marijuana. The former manager made a connection between Park and Lee under the common ground of illegal acts. Many assumptions were made about the connection between Lee Seung-chul and President Park Geun-hye but nothing was proven.

Plagiarism Issue
The song called “Shout Out” by Lee Seung-chul has been called out for plagiarizing Gareth Gates’ song called “Listen to my heart”. Lee Seung-chul reaction to this issue is since he recruited the song composer, he should take full responsibility. However, Lee Seung Chul claimed that people need to listen to this song entirely not just one part. Also, the original artist said that Lee Seung-chul's song did not plagiarize his, but he just got influenced by his song. Thus, “Shout Out” composer compromised to an original artist by giving the 70% of royalty to the original artist. The agreement between the original composer and the composer of "Shout Out" was completed in December 2006. However, the issue later arises in Korea after the issue was already resolved. Lee Seung Chul clarified the rumours about changing his song composer plagiarizing after he realized the plagiarism was not true. He also added that there are not many standards when it comes to plagiarism in songs. 20 years ago, it was considered plagiarism if two bars of a song were similar to one another. This rule was a ban due to the exploitation of this rule. He continues to argue for clearer standards for plagiarism in songs since many songs lose their popularity due to the suspicion for plagiarism.

Moreover, there are some other songs have had been suspected for plagiarism.

“I am now” by Lee Seung-chul is said to be plagiarized from the song “A World without you” by BAD BOYS BLUE.

“Love Friend’s Friend” by Lee Seung-chul is said to be plagiarized from the song “Me Espere” by Casiopea.

“White Bird” by Lee Seung-chul is said to be plagiarized from the song “You” by Koda Kum i.

Drinking Incident
At 1:30 a.m on November 15th, 2010, he lost his driver’s licence because he was drinking and driving. He drank 5 cans of beer at Shindang-dong, Seoul.