Cheese in the Trap Update: Airing Special Episode with Excluded Scenes and Chinese Distributor Upset at Park Hae Jin Screentime Decrease

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• It is a big joke!!. He was used and then tossed aside. I was really disappointed at the decreased screen time of Yoo Jung. But to be replaced with InHo playing piano repeated is a big insult.
  I am glad China has voiced up. As I am very certain when this drama air in China, PHJ's fans in China will be very angry.

  • It wasn't just China, I believe the Japanese and Singaporean distributors have also demanded an explanation after the news broke.

    I'm astonished tvN thought they could get away with this tbh. And who knows what was going on with the PD...

    • Really, Japan and Singapore too. Lol, even Korean are complaining, I should not be surprised other Countries who bought rights to air the drama due to PHJ's popularity in their Country do the same.
      I think the PD has lots of explaining to do. In future I am sure other good actors/actress will work with him with cautions.

  • Haha you are right.
    I was bored with the repeated piano scene.
    Looks like music in the trap show instead.

    • Repeated piano scene if it is a drama like Nodame is different but Cheese in the trap is not a drama about a pianist. Seems out of place to see him in the four scenes playing piano.

• Hi koala can I ask you? Is PHJ really popular in China, or at least well know? I kept gettig people say this isn't true, and that they never heard much about PHJ in china and that the media play is all lie... I don't understand chinese so..

  • Everyone from "You who came from the stars" is popular there :)

  • PHJ is popular in China as he had invested years acting as lead roles in popular Chinese dramas. He had done about 4 dramas and they were very well received. I enjoyed watching his dramas. He was much younger then but it was fun watching him in Chinese dramas. He acted as a poor kid in a few of them. Not some Chaebol.

  • PHJ has been in atleast 3 chinese dramas and he gained success in China after You who came from the star.

  • Park Hae Jin is quite popular in China for a K-actor.

  • Hi, fyi, he has done 6 or 7 tv dramas with China, 3 in 2016 alone.

    • as the male LEAD

• Park Haejin and his agency are really good at managing this into his favour. It could've gone wrong too.. he could have been blacklisted by industry people for going openly against production in public. You know how things work in Korea. You are not supposed to say anything and just work smiling.

  • Keeping mumb will be going against the moral of story behind this drama and I am sure PHJ is not a hypocrite.

  • The production company may not be that powerful.
    It's the TV stations. The production company used both Park Hae Jin and the webtoon original author.
    Even the author spoke up so PHJ is making a smart move backed up by his own agency and "supporters".
    Perhaps even the TV station TVN is backing him up quietly.

    • Wait... Is this show produced by TVN?
      I doubt so coz normally the producers would locate the station who wanna buy and air the program.

  • I agree too, I think he and his agency is doing well at balancing saying just enough but not too much.

  • IMO I think he might of done it so the outside companies don't think is him the reason for lack of scenes. In me he just gain a fan for life. I love people that know when fight their battles.

• This is even worse because it is a pre-produced drama. He has done his part, film his parts, and it was more or less deliberately edited out or replaced.

  • I agree that's what makes it so surprising. I was actually optimistic about it because it was already filmed versus the shows that are filmed on the fly and sometimes shift gears due to fan feedback.

• the fact that they roped in PHJ to sell it to china and then stabbed him in the back i the main reason why this is so unforgivable
  This PD and production should make their money honestly -______-
  they'll all be rolling in the $$$$$$$ he brought in after shafting him
  dishonest people without any integrity!!!!!

  • Perhaps they thought that shifting to in-Ho might be the popular move. Alas, they are wrong.

  • They even planned a Drama trip after the production. PHJ was not informed of the trip. Which is nasty really...
    The money they earned from selling the drama.

• Doesn't this just make matters worse? It would seem for the fans to see first hand what was cut would just make them more upset. I guess it depends on how they go about it. I wonder if they'll show scenes PHJ filmed that were redone. The fact that they actually admit his screen time was cut though is the biggest take from this.

  It also makes little sense since the ratings dropped when his time was cut. This isn't a case of desperately trying to find something to interest the audience to help rating, but going against what everyone wanted and making the ratings become stagnant. It's just a really strange situation that makes no sense.

  • You summarized it perfectly. Thanks. Their chand of direction is puzzling and showing the unaired scenes seems like an admission of guilt. I think it's an even worse thing to do unless the last two episodes can conclude in a manner that can satisfy most fans.

    Unless some drastic events unfold, it will take a lot of convincing for me to accept something other than a Jung seol ending coz as of now, their relationship still feels rock solid. Despite the focus on In Ho, my interest is very much still on Jung and seol, separately and as a couple.

    I really hope the drama can conclude sensibly and satisfactorily

  • I bet the deleted scene in Korea will be added to the China, Japan and Singapore production. They will have to sell the re-edited version to those Countries. And sell it as never been seen "Cheese in the Trap"

  • My thoughts exactly. You can't just shove major character development—for the *male lead* no less—in an extra, disjointed episode and expect that to fix things. If anything, it's just going to make it more obvious that the narrative got shafted by poor editing decisions. It's too late in the game for a special to do more than show us what we aren't going to get.

• Well, they already ruined the latter half of the drama for me so they might as well give me a bonus.

  I'll be happy to watch the extra episode (which I hope will be 90% PHJ scenes). While it doesn't erase their mistake, it's still better than nothing.

• I think PHJ got screwed big time n this is too little too late.

  I liked the first half but dropped it when it looked like InHo was being ridiculously shoved towards Seol.

  Still, I m still curious to know wny it went InHo way.

• Yes the mystery of the editing process. Ok, I get not all filmed scenes can be used, but I'm seriously disappointed....the narrative shifts from the thought provoking main characters (not black and white, lots of grey) to some seemingly formulaic cliche. For penance (from their financial gains), they put out a proper Directors' cut with the deleted scenes in the story just like what was done for the Tamra Island.

  • Yes! They might as well do what they did with tamra's island, to this day both versions (shortened and uncut) are still circulating. Although i would prefer of they just re-aired episode 13 and 14 as they should have been..

    Out of interest, for the chinese airing would they edit the episodes to show more jung or keep it as it is? Also, would the show be dubbed or subtitled?

• Honestly, this comes way too late. I'd rather they edit PHJ's scenes back into the drama where they should have been and rerun those episodes (if they can do it for Padam, Padam, then they should surely be able to spare a few days and delay Pied Piper). PHJ's character has really shone throughout this whole debacle though. The man is such a gentleman, and clearly one who keeps his word.