There are some Okay-Pop idols that give off a regal kind of aura that has followers joke that they should be descended from royalty. However, it goes a step additional with EXO‘s Suho, who bears a striking resemblance to a past prince of Korea.

The prince in question is Prince Yi U, who is actually dubbed the “last prince” of the Joseon Dynasty in the country. Born in 1912 — two years after the annexation of Korea from Japanese rule — Yi U is known for his devotion to his Korean heritage despite pressure to bow to the foreign nation. He even refused to marry a Japanese woman and instead married Lady Park Chan-ju, the daughter of a Korean nobleman, who he would go on to have two children with.

Despite his loyalty to his Korean ancestry, however, Yi U was still forced to serve in the Japanese military beginning in the early 1930s, during Japan’s warfare in opposition to China. Used as a propaganda instrument for Japanese imperial ambition all through his time within the army, the prince’s story is a tragic one which was minimize far too quick.

Prince Yi U was nonetheless serving the Japanese army — the place he’d risen to the rank of lieutenant-colonel — when World War II reached Japan, and he was stationed in Hiroshima when the primary atomic bomb was dropped by the United States in 1945. He’d recognized that he was probably going to die when he was given the orders to go to Japan throughout such a violent time, and he’d given his farewells to his household earlier than his departure there.

Tragically, since he was solely 700 meters away from the location of the bombing, he didn’t instantly die from the assault however succumbed to accidents brought on by the radiation lower than a day later. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of colonel after his dying.

He was solely 32 when he was killed throughout the warfare, and there aren’t many photographs of the younger prince taken throughout his quick life. However, EXO followers have needed to do double takes when seeing photos of Prince Yi U due to his nearly eerie visible similarities to the group’s chief.

The matter lately got here up on a web-based discussion board put up, the place netizens have expressed their bewilderment over Suho’s shut resemblance to the “last prince” of the Joseon dynasty.

SUHO precisely appears to be like like Prince Yi U , a colonel Korean prince & member of the imperial household of Korea & the 4th head of unhyeon palace, & a lieutenant colonel within the Imperial Japanese Army throughout World War II ????????

© (WIKI ) +FB @weareoneEXO #EXO #엑소 pic.twitter.com/YvgWskB6pv

— EXOBreakingNews (@EXOBreakingNews) April 15, 2021

It would undoubtedly be straightforward to consider that Suho was descended from this royal household.

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