The Jin Se Yeon Wedding Curse Strikes Again in Penultimate Episode of Age of Feeling

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• LMAO!!!!!! A number of us were discussing about how this would probably happen. And it did! LOL!

• But is it true that her character in Gaksital was killed off precisely because of her filming commitments to "Five Fingers"? As in: she had no time left to finish filming Gaksital, so she died early in that drama?
  And is that what really happened here in AoF too?

  • No.She was there when Gaksital last filming was done.Her death was the drama's last shooting(well,Joo Won still needed to film for some scenes but all filming finished on that day).
    They were unhappy with her due to "5 fingers" but not related to her death.It was necessary-although we don't want it-to show that the hero lived only for his country.

    • Yea I thought that in Gaksital her death made sense narratively. I haven't been following AoF (was at ep 6 when I found out the writer switch and felt too disappointed to continue) so I don't know how it felt for peopl who watched it but I just imagined early on that her character would get a happy ending whether it be with our hero or someone else :S so I don't like this turn of even :(

• Hahah, I was laughing too as I suspected it will happen.
  It does feel as it is a revenge on KBS part and not so much that she doesn't have time to finish AoF as her character dies only one episode before the end. I would of accepted it if at least her death was made reasonably.. but the way she dies is absolutely ridiculous in every way. Still loved her character.
  I'm curious how will they wrap up the drama.

• LOL I remember she was also filming the daily drama called i think "Flowers For My Daughter" at the same time she chose to film Gaskital! Its the 3rd time she accepted a drama while filming another.

• Does she have a massive personal debt or something to keep doing this?

  • She's very young and trying to make her mark, so she seems to be accepting pretty much any and every (leading) role that comes her way. Bad business decision, though, since it's gotten her in lots of trouble, image-wise, and Korean netizens are both unforgiving and have a long memory.

• Why are so many people blaming her? If she did step in as a late replacement in both cases, that sounds to me like she did them a favour. Yes she was double booking, but the network knew of her PRIOR commitments, and that's the key word here, surely? Anyway, I hope she gets a happy ending in Dr. Stranger.

  • I think you are only looking at it from the perspective of the new projects she picked up but ignoring the projects she had already been committed to. Of course Dr. Stranger/Five Fingers should take no issue with her double booking since they were aware of her prior commitment to Bridal Mas/AOF when they booked her. However, Bridal Mask/AOF did NOT have prior knowledge of her intent to double book when they booked her. Is she doing a favor to the dramas in which she stepped in as a late replacement? Sure, but she is also undoubtedly doing a disservice to the dramas she was already filming. Why should Bridal Mask or AOF have to change their storyline/ending to write her character off and/or have the rest of the cast and crew make sacrifices in adjusting the filming schedule etc. because she wants to take on a new commitment that she did not have when they booked her. To do this one time is one thing (and I think understandable given the unpredictability and complexity of the entertainment industry) but to repeatedly engage in the behavior of taking on new commitments that mean you cannot fully honor your current one is not really proper or professional.

    • I understood it to be the other way round - she took BOTH AoF and Gaksital as late replacements for someone else. THEY were her second, the others were her prior commitments. Certainly it seems to be that way for AoF - she was already signed up for Dr Stranger, and there is no way that KBS didn't know that when they signed her as a replacement for Aof. That whole Drama was such a disorganised shambles anyway that victimising her like this seems particularly unfair.

    • Stuart,

      She was a later replacement on Five Fingers WHILE she was filming Gaksital, not the other way around as Gaksital was finishing up and Five Fingers was starting.

      I have a little more sympathy for the AOF/Dr. Stranger thing since she did sign up for Dr. Stranger first and was a last-minute replacement on AOF, but given that I believe she's done something similar 2 other times, I don't think the industry is as forgiving. Particularly KBS since she's now done it to them twice.

  • Timing, perception, and respect is everything in the industry. Moreso than actual acting ability. Jin Se Yeon's agency is really leading her astray for short term gain but saddling her with a long term mark on her reputation. I've actually grown to like her after watching her in AoF, but her career guidance is piss poor from her agency.

    Gaksital was a 24-episode drama, it was her first leading lady role in a prime time slot. The drama was nearing the end of its run when the whole T-ara bullying scandal blew up and Eunjung was booted off Five Fingers (after Eunjung filmed all the drama promos already, natch). Jin Se Yeon did not agree to do Gaksital AFTER she was already booked on FF. It was the other way around, she was the last minute replacement in FF but was still filming Gaksital. KBS being majorly pissed is understandable. It's like starting work on a new job before you have officially had your last day at your current job. Not cool. She's allowed to do it, but it's going to hit her reputation as someone who double books. Period. Reputation matters in the long run more than a quick leading lady role. If I were her agency I would have passed on FF for her.

    On AoF, it's murkier, but I don't buy her agency's one-sided statement that she was already signed onto Dr. Stranger BEFORE she was the last minute replacement in AoF. It could be true, but the way K-dramas are cast doesn't buttress that statement. She stepped into AoF in December 2013. Dr. Stranger was always scheduled as a May 2014 drama, and dramas only cast months and months in advance when it's a huge name star they need to lock down to greenlight a project (Think Ha Ji Won in Empress Ki, Moon Geun Young in Painter of the Wind, you get the picture). The male lead in DS wasn't confirmed until late Feb as Lee Jong Seok. I find it harder to believe that Jin Se Yeon as the second female leads was already confirmed. I was following along with the DS casting and the two leading lady roles were offered to Kang Sora and Park Min Young ijn January (publicly) and while Sora accepted PMY passed and that role is the one Jin Se Yeon has. So JSY's agency wants us to believe that she accepted DS in December 2013 when AoF started filming. That's way fishy to me.

    But ultimately KBS comes off like the petty snit in this, killing her off time and again to prove a point. That's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. It ruins the entire drama narrative! KBS would do better to just not work with JSY going forward if the network doesn't like her double booking. Just sayin'

    I don't think what Jin Se Yeon did is wrong, per se, but it does come across as disrespectful to the drama production cast and crew of the drama that hasn't finished yet before she's already starting to toggle between drama sets.

    • Thanks for the explanation. After what KBS did to YEH's last Drama AND the amazingly promising LBS/Yoona Drama that followed, I'm predisposed to blame them most. Especially since this Drama had much bigger problems than just a double-booked female actor. I couldn't help thinking of Joey's "Days of Our Lives" elevator mishap in Friends when I read this post. No one comes out of this looking good, but my sympathies stay with the actor over the network.

    • Thanks for clarify this complicated matter of K-Ent. Well, I feel sympathies more for the supporting cast and crews. They're the most suffering and get low rate payment. Don't feel much for the network and JSY.

    • yeah, I call lies on her agency's 'she was cast in DS before AoF' statement too. Next time, just don't double-book her!

      It's not even like her acting skills are strong enough, or that her popularity is high enough to make her a must-get from a drama casting perspective (like, say, Park Shin-hye). This is all actively being pursued by her agency, and they need to dial it back because it's her image that will suffer - double-booking once is one thing, but twice? They (and she) have to know how that comes across.

    • @koala - you forgot the part where KBS allowed her four days off in between to work on Doctor Stranger, and she then overshot and took two days extra to get back to AoF, throwing their production schedule out of wack. They've been very accommodating of her, all things considered.

      I lost all sympathy for her after that, if anyone is to be pitied it's the crew and supporting actors of AoF, who can ill afford to not be paid but don't have the luxury of double booking themselves into another drama before finishing this one.

    • Thanks for the info koala!

      I gave IG the benefit of the doubt until the very last monite but damn did they really messed it up. It was very deliberete in their part especially considering the cause of her death was linked to JT's dad's death - all of a sudden he was poisoned too as if it wasn't enough that he was hemorrhaging and got stabbed. The doctor who did the autopsy even reiterated it as a matter of factly even when there were no traces of poison on the earlier eps. Talk about contrived and shoehorning it at the very end too. It defied every narrative logic.

      Her agency is definitely not doing her any favors: short term achievements at the expense of her reputation. But then again, k ent is the only industry that propagates such problems to begin with, in other countries shooting two productions concurrently is not uncommon at all - it's just k ent makes matters that more difficult with their live shoot format. For that I will always have more sympathy to the actors than these broadcasting companies who runs their talents like slaves.

    • OK first of all, JSY isn't 2nd female lead in Doctor Stranger, she'll be 1st female lead. People can say what they want about PMY & JSY but their star-power is obviously above KSR. Both played more leading roles. And here one more proof:

      http://movie.daum.net/tv/detail/castcrew.do?tvProgramId=64948

      And second, Doctor Stranger originally slated for early 2014, not May 2014. We LJS fans knows that. So what JSY agency says might be true:

      JSY received offer for dr.S and she gave them her verbal agreement. But dr.S then encountered a delay. At that time, IG suddenly lost KSE, therefore asked for JSY's help to replaced her. dr.S team probably couldn't give her the reassure promise back then, so JSY then decided to bow out from dr.S and went to IG instead, b'coz she hadn't signed any contract for dr.S yet. That's why dr.S team then search for other actress when the drama finally given exact slot. They almost got PMY but she decided to pass it. At that time, IG already on midway point and dr.S team, knowing that IG will end for some time before dr.S' begin, decided to try appeal to JSY again. JSY and agency, after discussed it three-way with both KBS and SBS, finally said "Yes" to dr.S.

  • last-minute* not later*

    Not sure why I typed that.

  • @Requiem and Stuart - I wouldn't be so quick to believe her agency's claim that she was cast in Doctor Stranger first, since it's known that the role she now has was being shopped to Park Min Young as recently as February....while AoF was filming.

    She joined AoF in November after Kim So Eun dropped out, and like koala says, kdramas never start casting that early unless they are courting a major A lister....so this 'she joined Doctor Stranger first!' business is just her agency's attempt to deflect criticism for the double booking, and not necessarily the truth.

    • @pog on..what her agency said is right just like what @mia89 said.she was not present at the first reading of dr,stenger simply because the IG production team will not allow her to promote a drama or a movie while doing IG.just like she cant promote publicly for her movie with supernova because the IG team does not allowed her.,btw the movie is for japan release only..what happen in hungary is if u read a fan account in dr.stranger thread in soompi they said they finish shooting earlier than expected..so when jsy&co reach seoul they were shock about the news in some news online portal about her doing blablabla.thats when her agency release an official statement.and in soompi thread those fans in hungary was asked to not upload pics and videos online until the right time.and the right time is when IG drama finish its airing.and those pics of ljs&jsy that is already uploaded was taken down.IGs unhappines is due to how the dr,stranger staff manage those pictures.she just cant promote in anyway while still doing IG.

    • @jingge that is only assumption not the actual fact. no one can 100% prove that what her agency claimed was true. She might be offered early this year but verbal agreement means nothing and since she tmade her commitment with AoF and gave up on GS (since they offered the role to PMY), that means, no agreement had been made at all. So what her agency about her being offered first doesn't even count at all.

• LOL, what?!
  This is a hilarious post.
  Seeing as how her death in AoF made no point narratively I do wonder if the writer(s) just added it more as a dramatic punch to the viewers or because they were petty and wanted to teach Jin Se Yeon a lesson. We'll never know.
  I never got the amount of flak she got as an actress -- there are worse actresses i've come across and personally i think she had more warmth to her acting than im soo hyang (yes, she is supposed to play a cold character. But so did Han Chae Ah in gaksital and we all still loved her.)
  Jin Se Yeon has certainly made a name of herself to take on multiple projects at once and having the misfortune of playing characters that die right after getting married.
  I am just relieved that this show is ending so that all that are recapping it (namely headsno2) can be released from this hell.

• does anyone know if her character died in the manhwa?

  in bridal mask I was 100% team rara so I loved that ending because the way I looked at it that meant years down the road they had a chance. but here I actually liked her character more than gaya so im a little bummed.

  • oh I forgot to mention that I have seen 3 dramas of hers now and she has not once ended up with the guy hoping that's not the case for doctor strange =/

• I like Im Soo Hyang's Kaya...still shipping her and Leader Mo...though Aoki could be acceptable. Alot of folks have taken the shipping wars way overboard lol

  • 2nd this. However, the actor playing Aoki is awesome. The boy can act! Leader Mo is a bit methodical and dry at some point and I actually find his story line a little dull.

• One of the reasons I stopped watching AoF. I got to ep 7 and from there I didn't go any further. All I managed to grasp from the drama was fighting and kicking. Now she died too. And I liked her better than the other female. Whats he gonna do now?Mope in a corner after killing everybody? Good luck with that Jung Tae.