In what maybe be a new level of K-drama filming and post-production fail, the second episode of tvN weekend drama Hwayugi (A Korean Odyssey) went from ratings winning new hit to being unable to finish airing. Sunday night’s episode 2 of Hwayugi actually got pulled from airing midway through due to incredibly obvious post-production screw ups. Basically the post-production wasn’t done by the time the episode aired, so in the beginning the commercials ran for a really long time previewing other tvN shows such as Youn’s Kitchen and Mother, then the network aired some of the episode before simply ending the telecast.
The mess ups include ghosts at the audition scene having visible wires, green screen evident in another scene, and other such clean up work not yet done. This is such a shame since Hwayugi got high ratings in its first episode and great audience feedback, I was riveted and loved every moment of episode 1. I don’t think this screw up will tank the series but it worries me more that post-production work isn’t done so early in the drama, how is the production going to live-film a drama with heavy fantasy elements that require a lot of post-production.
tvN has announced that it will rebroadcast the second episode of Hwayugi after finishing the post-production work on December 25th at 6 pm.
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LMAO what the fluff is going on hahahahahaha
I have second hand embarrassment for tvn. Did they get the rookies to do the editing or what? If they screw up seunggi comeback anymore the Koreans might just stage a protest.
Look set to doom. If they can't get things right earlier during its run, Idk how are they going to manage once the filming schedule getting tighter. Ambitious project like this should be a pre-produced one but then Korea has proven that they are also capable at blotching a pre-produced project, case in example Moon Lovers. Sad and embarassing at the same time.
I guess TVN spent all it's money on KES drama. nothing's left lol
More like they spent it all on paying Lee santa.aigoo!!!
Jbtc for the win.
Hopefully OCN is not affected...
The embarrassment is even magnified because of how hyped this drama was.All that mediaplay and they werent even ready to air the drama?????!!!!TVN can be too ambitious with these fantasy dramas sometimes.I remember even from the little I saw of Bride of the water god.The costume makeup of habaek was poor quality.
Eh they better not waste the high premiere ratings and hype for this drama with shitty post production work.
Seriously, tvN should have pushed the drama to next year since they had to wait for LSG. Fantasy dramas with CGI need more work. Look at how the actors for Goblin suffered last year.
I'm most worried about the future episodes with how tight the schedule seem to be with Hwayugi. Even with some productions (ex. sageuk dramas) having banked about 4 episodes at the onset, would still have live-shooting in the midst. And this drama requires extensive post-prod treatment aside from the actual filming which i think is also extensive. I hope they don't sacrifice some fantasy elements just to save post prod time.
the picture in the frame differed every scene, esp when the monkey saw it in the office
nothing to embarrass about lol. it's probably part of the PR stunt. I liked the 1st episode a lot and I have not watched the 2nd epi but I think the next episodes onwards will get high rating despite the blunder. The incident definitely creates a significant stir to arouse people interest in the drama.
If it is a pr stunt, than its the stupidest the world has ever seen.