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Park Hae Jin Missing From the Official Cheese in the Trap OST Drama Pictorial Book

The WTF-ery of the Cheese in the Trap production team apparently refuses to stop even after the drama’s finished airing. One would think the production would do everything possible to avoid further uproar with anything involving male lead Park Hae Jin, but alas that line of thinking appears to be wishful and completely out of reach of an increasingly bizarre and deranged Cheese production team. The official OST was released recently and included a collector’s edition photo book that normally would make die hard fans who shelled out money to buy the OST super happy. In this case it led to reopening the can of worms that was still squiggling around Park Hae Jin’s male lead role getting significantly downgraded in screen time and story line.

Aside from appearing on the drama poster that is used on the cover of the photo book, Park Hae Jin is missing completely from the entire collection. The books includes tons of filming stills of cast members Kim Go Eun, Seo Kang Joon, and Lee Sung Kyung but zero pictures of Park Hae Jin inside. The Cheese production claimed Park Hae Jin’s team only gave permission to use the cover photo, but Park Hae Jin’s side immediately shot back that the Cheese production only asked for permission on that one photo. I’m fairly certain who I believe in this he said-she said contradiction – it doesn’t rhyme with Cheese and supports the side that is not a raging collection of douchebags. I genuinely wished this wasn’t still happening because as much as it was a shitty thing that happened to Park Hae Jin his popularity and name recognition rose because of it, but the continued dismissal and disrespect for his hard work in this drama is still a bitter pill to swallow.

Park Hae Jin was standing behind Kim Go Eun in the original of the picture above but has been photoshopped out.

In the original script reading pictures, Park Hae Jin is on the far right of the frame, but in the picture that made it into the photo book he’s been cropped out in the collage.

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    • why are they doing this to him? take note future male leads of this production team/direction - they may screw you the way they screwed park hae jin. i'm outraged and i am not a fan of any of these actors.

      • the 'will screw you up' reputation has already attached to Seo Kang Joon too - two prospective male leads (In Siwan and Choi Woo Shik) have turned down the lead role in Entourage following the mess with Cheese.

        I suppose they don't want to risk having their screen time cut for his sake or tvn being the one with the favoritism, even though ISW was already the lead of one of tvn's biggest and most critically acclaimed hits.

      • Did they not know how popular cutie Park Hae Jin is? Talking about shooting yourself in the foot.People tuned in mainly to see him..I know i did.
        Someone needs to be fired for their sheer stupidity.

      • I am more into SKJ's Company dirty play to made profit back to His company. their assumption maybe made SKJ's more screentime = more love call = more projects = more profit. Change Plot without reason , there is might be some reason behind.
        i am so curious why the PD is so Quiet, she prefer to quiet. from last Lee Dahee in East of Eden and Han Yeseul in Spy MyungWool if this happened, the production team has always a counter attack .
        tell us your Story behind this PD nim

  • What is really going on? Did he piss someone off or something? I thought they ended well. What in the world happened? He's still actively promoting this crap of a drama too. Wth is right!!!

  • This is insanity! It's as if the conflicts that characters had with Yoo Jung are manifesting in Park Hae Jin.

  • It's either he did something fuxked up behind the scenes or the PD is just a bitch, either way there is always two sides to story .

    • I'm seriously scratching my head. What in the *bleep* happened?

      It's not like this is the first time he's acted in a drama. Dude's old enough and been through the drama conveyor belt enough times to be considered an industry veteran. You'd think he's experienced enough to handle whatever insider political f&ckery there may be in a production. I've never heard of controversy surrounding his past roles. His acting record has to mean something, right? I haven't liked all of his past dramas, but as far as I know, he takes acting seriously and puts out good performances.

      But at the same time, it doesn't make logical sense that the PD/writer/crew/team would screw with him just because. For shitz and giggles? Or because fate somehow gathered a mob of psychopaths to run the show? Doesn't add up. Back in the day, the PD helmed Coffee Prince, so she's not exactly without credentials either.

      Something definitely happened behind scenes. Only we'll never know the truth. My sympathy is with PHJ, but at the same time, my brain doesn't want to blame the production team 100%. Whatever the case, it's a pity this happened to his first show as male lead; I've been looking forward to him headlining a drama, and was going to watch CITT once the show finished airing. Only now I know to stay away. =(

      • This isn't his first headlining role. He's had tons of dramas (both in Korea and China) where he was the male lead.

        Still, this is sooooo messed up. Are they paying him back for making them BEG him to take on the drama? But even that's just crazy!

    • I heard rumors that someone higher-up (higher than PD, maybe the team leader she mentioned) offered him a sponsor deal and he refused and this is retaliation.

      • LOL Why the hell would PJH need a sponsor? He's pretty much the show moneymaker machine. If true, that person needs their head checked.

      • about sponsor even lee youngae marrieed her sponsor.
        so that things might be happened.
        unbelievable but that is true according Knets

    • if PHJ was the one who did something wrong, there is NO WAY CJ E&M/the production would not have at least leaked the news by now.

      • True. They would do damage control. It has gotten so out of control. Crazy. I hope he comes out of this unscathed.

    • I do not think there was anything he did initially. if he actually did, they would never stay this quiet and not publicly pointing the finger at him. I think this is all the retaliation after the fact with all the uproar and him publicly talking about it. It seem this is more like a rebel from production team against the viewers and fans.

  • Lol Cheese in the Trap gate or Park Hae Jin gate is still going? Are they trying to ruin him or help him? Cause so far he looks like the winner since they keep getting him more support. His agency cracks me up by the way they retaliate. They don't filter lol I just need him in a better drama with a better production team. You would think he killed that PD'S puppy or called her a bitch or something.

  • I don't beleive for a damn second that PHJ didn't do anything to piss someone from the production off. Maybe it wasn't his fault and he was right all along but there's a reason this keeps happening. I doubt a PD can be powerful enough to even eliminate him off the drama's photobook. The production in general must be pissed. Can't say if it's PHJ's fault but it does make me think.

    • I feel like this is CJ E&M’s retaliation after PHJ aired his side. The higher ups probably didn’t appreciate that he talked to the media about the behind-the-scenes brouhaha. They probably expected him to just keep quiet. What I want to know is the PD’s side of the story, and why she chose to disregard PHJ, while catered to SKJ’s request to put adlibs to the script. I’m willing to bet that the conflict really originated from the PD and not from the actors.

      • yeah, the conflict either originated from the PD/director/or higher ups at CJ E&M. someone is really petty amongst them.

      • I agree. I think this is about him speaking out. When you get screwed in k-drama land, you are supposed to suck it up and take it. He didn't and now we see how it's gonna go.

      • ThePD had to apologize to the web toon originator/writer for changing her storyline as well as to the cast, audience and PHJ. PHJ, wasn't the only one who got #%&!!!

        What kind of insult could be so egregious to cause this kind of retaliation? For the PD and TVN potential law suits will be on the horizon from the writer....advertisers. Loss of future revenue from lack of viewership....lack of source material and second and third tier actors. Let's face it, this PD should have enough of a thick skin working in this industry with every kind of Diva out there...

        My thoughts are that this situation was not PHJ. Maybe she "liked" SKJ too much? Regardless, the PD is "cooked."

        Unleash the netizens!!!!

    • as I said above, if PHJ was the one at fault, we would have heard about it by now, however indirectly. Do we really think CJ E&M or other parties wouldn't grab any chance they could to establish him as the one in the wrong, if he was?

      This kind of public speaking-out has never happened in his decade-long career, it's not a habit with him. That's why it's getting taken more seriously.

  • Damn, the disrespect is never ending. I can't imagine what happened to piss off production crew this badly.

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