On the 21st of October 2020, the Marine Corps announced on their official SNS that SHINee Minho was training without taking his last vacation days. A Marine Corps official said, "These days, soldiers whose vacations are controlled due to COVID 19 can be discharged on their own without returning to the unit using an average of one month's total vacation leave. Minho returned the entire vacation to participate," he explained.
"Sergeant Min-ho Choi, who is on duty as a member of the Marine Corps' 1st Division, will complete his national defense duties on November 15 after his entire vacation on October 27, if it is as planned. To pass on the know-how of training and personal tactical biography to the successors, we decided to return the 20 days of vacation before the campaign and leave the unit."
The Marine Corps side said, "Marine Choi enlisted at a relatively late age during celebrity activities before enlisting in April of last year, but he actively participated in various training and operations, as well as his exemplary life in the barracks, as well as the first and second successors in the unit with his unique sincerity and bright personality. The department and executives trusted it, and the praise from the people around him is high."
Choi Min-ho, better known by the mononym Minho, is a South Korean singer, actor, songwriter, and rapper. He debuted as a South Korean boy group Shinee in May 2008, who later became one of Korea's best-selling artists. Aside from group activities as a singer, he debuted as an actor in November 2010 in a KBS2's drama special entitled Pianist. He has since had roles in various television dramas such as SBS' sitcom, Salamander Guru and The Shadows (2012), To the Beautiful You (2012), Medical Top Team (2013), My First Time (2015), and Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth (2016). He made his feature film debut in 2016 with Canola.
