The reason Akdong Musician signed with YG Entertainment is that they don't have the right look for rival record label SM Entertainment, according to comedian and television personality personality Kim Gu Ra.

In a panel discussion on Thursday about why Akdong Musician chose YG Entertainment, on the South Korea television program "Ssulzun," the 42-year-old comedian claimed the teenage brother-sister duo had no other choice.

"To be honest, Akdong Musician doesn't really match with SM Entertainment," Kim said. "Their visuals are quite different from the other trainees there."

He added that bandmates Lee Chan Hyuk, 16, and Lee Soo Hyun, 14, would have little use for record label JYP Entertainment, and what its CEO Park Jin Young could offer them.

"As for JYP Entertainment, Park Jin Young would give [Akdong Musician] songs," Kim added.

"But, the group doesn't need his songs as they have been performing with their self-composed songs."

Earlier this month, Akdong Musician explained on the Seoul Broadcasting System program "One Night Of TV Entertainment" that the reason they signed with YG was because they believed the label would respect their music and their opinions.

"We thought YG would be the best place to represent our music," Lee Soo Hyun said. "CEO Yang Hyun Suk said that he'd do his best to support us."

Her brother agreed that the decision was motivated by a desire to have input into their career.

"We chose YG because we think YG is the place where they listen to our opinions the most," Lee Chan Hyuk said.

Known for his outspoken comments, Kim has had to apologize for his words in the past.

Last year, the comedian had to cancel several appearances after comments he made 10 years before about so-called "comfort women," Japanese sex slaves during World War II, resurfaced online.

An extremely sensitive issue for people of South Korea, as it is for many of the Asian nations, comfort women were often kidnapped from their homes by the Japanese military, across the countries that had fallen under Japanese Imperial  control or coerced with promises of factory or restaurant work.

It has been estimated that thousands of Korean women were captured.

Once enslaved, the women were forced to work in "comfort stations," or state-sanctioned brothels, set up for Japanese soldiers.

In his 2002 comments on his Internet radio show Kim referred to comfort women as "prostitutes."

"Some 80 prostitutes are fighting for their rights against the police," he said, according to the website Soompi.

"They're sitting on a chartered bus heading to the National Human Rights Commission to file a complaint. This is probably the first time that prostitutes got on a chartered bus since the comfort women [did during World War II]. I'm sure the bus driver got an erection, too."

In an interview Kim gave shortly after the comments resurfaced, the comedian said he would be stepping down from all of his television commitments.

"I thought a lot about the issue with my wife and my company's CEO," Kim said.

"I decided it's just impossible to laugh and continue doing what I've been doing under these circumstances. I'm sorry to all the production team members and my show host mates. I'd also like to ask for forgiveness from all the people that might have been hurt by my comments. I'll put everything down and have a time to reflect on myself."

The comedian also issued an apology for his statement from a decade ago, which led to a year-long hiatus.

"Even if it's a comment made in the past, it's just an insensitive, nasty comment," Kim said.

"It's something I couldn't even accept myself...I thought it would be better to sincerely ask for forgiveness and look back at myself...it's long overdue but I would like to ask for forgiveness. I'll reflect on myself for the rest of my life."