K-drama Four Sons Hits Ultimate Roadblock as Male Lead Park Hae Jin Halts Filming After Leading Lady Changes and Salary Snafus

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• I sided with Park Haejin during the Cheese fiasco. But now looking back, it seems like he is the problematic one. Him and his production company is a huge mess. I wonder who will still want to work with him.

  • How did you come to that conclusion?

• The irony is that this project was initiated by him too. A mega ego boosting project together with the Cheese in Trap movie that was also produced by his management company. If the investments came from the multiple cfs he did in korea after playing victim in CITT tv series saga, I think the funds would have dried up by now. And you're right, good luck to him finding a TV station or producers who will still wanna work with him... meanwhile everyone else he has thrown under the bus is fortunately still surviving and some thriving...

  • I don’t understand why you call producing project an ego boasting project. What a very sad slave mentality you have got there!

    While I don’t agree with your first point but I agree that PHJ agency has some management issues. I don’t like there style of putting other actors down just to get ahead, CITT fiasco as an example.

    • *their style (mgnt)

  • Its the content. FOUR of him... geez.. can it get more egomaniacal than that???

    • Pushing boundaries is being egomaniac for you. Where on earth are you from?

• It should be included that his contract went out in the beginning of November. And that`s when he stopped showing up, and also they have just shot 6-8 episodes. So at least halv a drama is missing. Im siding whit him on this one, people can`t expect him to put his life on hold, when the whole drama is a mess.

  • I've heard he's producing this drama, or at least he has some affiliations to the production company, so I don't get why he's doing this. Plus, the premise of the drama itself is ridiculous and serves no other purpose except to boost his career.

    • Yep... the drama was meant to serve as a extension to his heroic role in Man to Man. Funny thing is that that sub standard drama was also produced by his management and savaged by critics and fans alike. But the saving grace came from Netflix who overpaid a lot for it. They probably thought they could pull the same trick again and just use his "big" enough name to cover over bad production values, writing, directing, editing that was apparent in the movie version of CITT and teamed up with the equally dodgy Victory Contents to helm yet another production with the PHJ branding all over. I guess finally the shoddiness caught up. For the sake of whatever remaining popularity he still has, hope they reach a settlement quickly outside of the media. If not, its just gonna get very very ugly with the you said, he said, she said and this time that victim thing just aint gonna work anymore cos ppl are already tired of the mess he keeps embroiling himself in.

• Hmmm, it's starting to look like bad attitude now. I'm done.

• I did a little more research and it seems like the production company was really incompetent. I'm not really a fan of Park Hae Jin but he did seem to try his best for this project. I think he renewed his contract multiple times for the project and finally decided that it was enough. I think he's in the right to not show up for work in November considering that he renewed his contract back in March, then a couple more times until November. I'm guessing he doesn't want to renew again so the production company is trying to bad mouth him. Hopefully the lawsuits will reveal what happened and who was truly at fault.

• It seems like he is the problematic one.It should have been telling when the drama production couldnt land a tv station to air the drama at the very beginning.

• I agree with Michelle. Park Hae Jin is not the problematic one. It takes guts to go against the tide and stand firm for what’s right!
  This is not the first time we hear about actors not being paid even long after the drama finishes

  • Mountain movement initiated the project and is a coproducer on this.

    • Mountain Movement Story was the co-producer along with Victory Contents, from other articles that I've read. So this issue is not with Park Hae Jin himself and his agency which ironically is also called Mountain Movement. They are actually two separate entities with the same name.

• Gosh what a great line up for Four Sons only to have it falter and it’s unfortunate that the drama has now stalled as I was really keen on Nana and PHJ starring alongside each other. Hopefully he’ll pick something up in the New Year. I like him as an actor.

• Just cancel this drama

• He has been so incredibly patient with them given them chance after chance even after the leading lady walked out on the drama because of the lack of payment by the production team. It is time to cut his losses and move on to something else.

  • I don’t think it’s that simple. His agency was one of the producers and creator of this drama and partly responsible for the whole fiasco.