SHINee's Key tests positive for Covid-19

SHINee member Key [ILGAN SPORTS]

SHINee member Key has tested positive for Covid-19, SM Entertainment announced Wednesday.

“Key was feeling unwell the day before and took a test at home, which turned out positive. He immediately went to get a PCR test and received the same result Wednesday morning,” the agency said in a statement.

Key had received got two shots of a vaccine.

He will halt all his planned activities and will be treated at home.

The boy band member currently appears on MBC’s “I Live Alone” and tvN’s “Amazing Saturday.”

Comedian Park Myung-soo also suspects he has Covid after testing positive with an at-home kit on Wednesday. His agency said he is currently awaiting the results from a PCR test.

Park also canceled all his activities as of Wednesday including “Park Myung-soo’s Radio Show” on KBS. Park appears on numerous programs including “South Korean Foreigners,” which he hosts with Kim Yong-man. Kim tested positive on Feb. 28.

BY YIM SEUNG-HYE [yim.seunghye@joongang.co.kr]