K-actor Ji Soo Accused by Multiple Former Classmates of Bullying and Sexual Assault in Middle School, KeyEast to Investigate as Allegations Quite Serious

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• "I don’t want an apology or restitution. It’s already happened, I don’t want an apology for something irreversible. I don’t think it would be sincere either. There’s one thing I want. Kim Ji Soo. If you want to act, do it. But if you do, you need the title of school violence perpetrator before your name."

  Whew. The allegations were very appalling and unacceptable if true. Unfortunately, male celebrities can get away with so much more and still thrive in the industry. But as the alleged victim said, if you do at the very least you need the title violent school bully attached to your name.

  • Exactly this statement by the victim is really different from what I read in the case of other bullying cases..He knew Jisoo would anyways be able to get work in the future because actors who have done far more heinous crimes are still thriving..Maybe his current drama can take a hit but soon someone will caste him..
    The victim is smart and said that an insincere apology would do him no good but atleast he won't be able to keep his fake image infront of general public..I guess this is the perfect clapback..

  • How do you guys believe this shit literally

    • You are a fool if you don't believe it.?

• This is disgusting. It rings true cause you can’t make this stuff up. KeyEast must be on a roll with the caliber of celebrities they are having... First Kim Hyun Joong’s scandal... now this. He’s not only accused of bullying, but also sexual harassment. Where were the teachers, school administrators and other parents when crap like this was going on????!!!!!

• Don't defend him guys. This sounds true.
  I'm more worried about what will happen to River where the moon rises drama. It's not like they could edit him out, he is male lead and they already filmed 95%.

  • Replacing a lead character even in a live airing drama has happened, most recently with Kang Ji Hwan in his sexual assault scandal and replaced by Seo Ji Suk for the final 8 episodes or Bae Sung Woo in Delayed Justice replaced in the final 4 episodes by Jung Woo Sung.

    They can re-film the final few episodes as only 6 episodes have aired, or conversely kill off Ondal (per the historical folktale), and make Ga Jin end up with Go Geun so the re-shoots are scenes with those two actors and easier to just insert in.

    All in all I think K-netz cares not a whit about this drama and more about whether this is true, what the victims suffered as kids if it is true, and the justice that should be meted out in such a case.

    • I know the cost will be double with re-filming. They could make Lee Ji Hoon as male lead now, he is actually better actor than Ji Soo.
      I heard that there's also sexual assault case with him. Idk what we should believe for now. But, the evidence and victim saying sounds correct and all pointing to him.

  • Pull the drama off air and free everyone from unnecessary hate or scrutiny. The ratings haven't been stable anyways and good acting can't make up for the bad writing in the long run. They'll have better opportunities in the future. Focus more on the victims because more and more people are coming forward. I wouldn't be surprised if Keyeast terminated their contract with him.

    • Keyeast would feel stabbed now, coz Ji Soo just signed up with them recently. They wouldn't go that far by protecting him.
      I feel bad for Kim So Hyun, other actors and the whole crew.

    • Wait till haters or fanatics read this! The drama is not much a deal, yet some people cannot stand people criticizing or hating the drama at all

• The amount of victim blaming that i m seeing on twitter is nauseating.. Because more than 20 celebs are accused fans are trying to trivialise these claims as fake and done out of spite ...all these efforts just to defend their respective biases..Some may be fabricated but majority of the accusations seemed to be true..They just can't deny that it was an argument and bullying never happened..Even when there are multiple proofs some people are twisting facts..They are asking "why now?" ..I mean ofcourse it takes lots of courage to confront your perpetrators and besides korea has strict defamation laws where u can be sued for even speaking the TRUTH..In this scenario how can a common person fight against a mighty company without public support?..It is good victims are striking now when the iron is hot and gp is willing to listen.

  One more thing, ur age doesn't give you the leverage to do shitty things..The victims are young too..You can't get to smile on national tv years later keeping a fake image after creating a havoc in someone's life..I just read about a heart wrenching case from 2011 in Korea where a middle schooler committed suicide due to excessive bullying..That poor boy was seen crying inside an elevator before his last moments..But his perpetrators are still lurking free till this date..
  Bullying in Korea is not some middle school dumb shit that everyone did..Now I know those kdramas didn't exaggerate school bullying .

  Also ,don't give me that crap that people can grow..if that's the case why didn't they apologise on their own without the victim required to expose them??

  I hope these people forever get the tag of "school violence perpetrator" before their name..

  Just to add it here..in another case the little brother of an ex-member from an idol grp exposed how his sister was bullied by the other members..The evil company and the people close to the current members didn't deny the accusations but rather twisted the narrative that the girl was responsible for getting treated in that way..They gaslighted the victim and blamed her??..And now when the little brother came out with solid evidences, the company is threatening to sue the teenaged boy and his family..?

  • I just read about the group April. DSP is shit, wtf!! They are now suing a brave 16 year old boy who is fighting for his sister. I have all my respect and support for this boy.

• Apparently a staff from RWTMR just posted on his blog about Jisoo being rude and unlikable on set. This getting crazy!

  • OMG!! This is such a mess now. I feel so bad for Our girl So Hyun.
    Now, this drama would go messier than Mr.Queen.

    • At least Mr Queen's cast do not behave like mr/miss high-and-mighty.And, it finished with none of the cast being replaced or involved with scandals

    • @Lai Pei Yee

      Exactly. And it had sky-high ratings to boot. Don't see why this person had to bring Mr. Queen into this mess. Both dramas have nothing to do with each other.

    • @Lai Pai Yee
      I know. Mr.Queen had no problem at all with the casts. I mean about the complaints when the drama started airing with distortions of historical facts, supporting that Chinese writer, sexual words, etc..
      Mr.Queen's leads are superb.

    • @smh
      I know. Don't wrong me! I just said about getting a mess because of those things.
      Mr.Queen's lead actors are superb.

    • Despite all these offences, no one boycott or stop watching Mr Queen, it's rating went and soar higher. Sexual assault cases is a very serious offense, plus it did not stop with case alone

  • source? actually i noticed that sso actually looked uncomfortable with jisoo somehow in the bts...i felt bad with jisoo actually back then that sso's interaction with him is nowhere as great and near her interaction with jang dong yoon.. but now this issues has arisen, i felt somewhat relieved

  • Are you talking about the post on theqoo? I saw it too shocking. Think of how much staff knows about actors and hides it. They must be angry.

  • Is this staff member allowed to do that though? Can you share a link? Also, not doubting any of the victims in the recent avalanche of scandals but it's a bit head-scratchy how all these allegations seem to be rushing out of the blue at once like this. Especially when the accused are in the middle of successful projects or after they've had successful projects. But I guess they came out when they felt ready to. In this case, for the sake of the hardworking production team, I wish this had come out when his casting news was first announced so they could drop him and save themselves this nightmare. Totally disgusted if it's all true.

    • Actually the thing is victims got courage after seeing the public support..If they had done it earlier ,the consequences would have been huge with agency suing the victim even for speaking the truth..Just like a post said above, you can get sued in Korea based on the strict defamation laws..It just happened that his drama coincided with this new metoo wave in Korea..
      Apparently it is not confirmed but there was a post where the person said that when he was in high school, he had sex with a middle schooler in the toilet ,filmed it and showed it to other people..As much as i m disgusted by this act, I will wait for further proof.

    • Middle schooler? He must have been 13 or so? Yeesh. I'm reading the links in Koala's post. And the victims' accounts seem too detailed for it to be a ploy. In fact, I've seen so many instances of what they're saying in K-dramas. Overall, this points to Korea's deep-rooted problems with violence and bullying, be it at home, school or work. The victims have all my sympathy if the allegations are true but I'll also wait for more info.

    • No that post said he was a highschooler and the girl was a middle schooler ..You can check allkpop site.There are even more vulgar accusations that I don't want to write here..??

• I just even saw sexual assault allegations of him. I'm speechless. I liked him so much.

• My jaws dropped to the ground and I’m on the third floor of a building right now. I’m incredibly sad right now. I hope the truth gets reveal and everything is resolved correctly. If the rumors are true, I feel bad not only for the victims but also for my girl and the talented cast and production team.

• Oh man, someone predicted a while back that if this drama tanks in ratings, the fans of FL will pour all the blame on Jisoo. And it's coming to pass, though not how anyone expected. The ratings are already mediocre before this controversy but now they have a perfect scapegoat. If these allegations are indeed true, then Jisoo, you're a huge pos.

  • No need to use this incident as a opportunity to drag the drama and other people. This drama has decent and not mediocre ratings. Its kbs highest ratings for prime time in a long time especially on a Monday/Tuesday although only 6 episodes have aired.
    Episode 4, it reached 10.0.

    Now continue talking to a wall.

    • Hahaha... someone can't handle the truth. I'm talking to a wall and yet you felt the need to reply. Dumbass. How far the public channels have fallen that a measly 10% is celebrated like a grand achievement. The bar is literally lying on the floor.

    • HAVE YOU SEEN THE RATINGS FOR PUBLIC CHANNELS? EVEN 8% IS HUGE THESE DAYS! WHAT ROCK DO YOU LIVE UNDER!?

    • The wall painting is peeling off, I’ll apply some fresh paint for you :)

    • RWTMR is a success for achieving double digits in just 4 episodes. LUCA is now on its last 2 episodes so it is normal that it achieved high ratings. But we cannot RWTMR is trailing behind it.

    • Some dramas has poor rating at the end, even with good start. You can look at Lee Min Ho's drama for a start.

    • #the latest one

    • WOW! You even reply fast making me imagine you are in front of your screen all day waiting for someone to validate your opinion and get ready your keyboard warrior mode when someone rebuts you.

      Lai Pei Yee everyone, the world class hypocrite.

  • The rating has dropped to 8.8%, no longer in 10% range.If KBS don't pull it out now, K-netizens may react and a strong decline, due to Ji Soo's case.

    • Ikr? Delulu idiots like her can't accept the fact that the drama was already boring with flip-flopping ratings, even before this scandal. Even in the recap posts, all those hundreds of worshipping fans who claimed to be anticipating the drama had vanished mysteriously.

    • It already went back up to 9% and it was known the ratings would climb up again when the politics took the main stage. Stop pretending the drama isn't a success just to satisfy your ego. The online engagements have been high too.

    • Its not a success. Its actually trailing behind Luca as one is on terrestrial and the other is on cable. LUCA is doing really well at 6.22% rating for a mon-tues cable drama and especially for sci-fi genre. There is currently no competition on terrestrial front since SBS and MBC are both taking a hiatus from this time slot. The scandal and SBS returning back in 3 weeks with the big budget Joseon Exorcist will make the outlook for the remaining eps even more dire. Fortunately for KSH - LA2 airs on Netflix next week. I do feel sorry for VC. They just can't seem to catch a break since that awful mess with Park Hae Jin and his mgnt company and now this.

    • There you go, Lydia1. Hats off to you for seeing things without worshipping the drama to the max or the young-but-good-looking-cast-only. I told them time and time again, they are on top because they have no rivals from public tv networks. Some people however prefer to compare oranges and apples...

    • The drama airing on a cable or public channel doesn’t have a strong disparity as it used to. Most dramas of the cable channel have higher ratings than many of its public channel counterparts for years. In fact, a drama airing on a cable channel esp on tvn has a higher probability of success. Most knetizens has access to cable channels unlike the past. So I must disagree that Luca is considered a high success, especially since I heard that it has a decent budget as well.

      For RWTMR to have this kind of ratings on a public channel especially on min/Tuesday, that’s a rarity.

  • SBS has 15% to 30% ratings. KBS has nothing to shout for a public channel.

    • And it will slide even further with sexual assault case. It is not a new fact as other previous dramas suffered the same fate.

    • FOR YOUR INFORMATION,
      Do you like Brahms (SBS,August 31-October 20, 2020, pandemic situation, MONDAY-TUESDAY DRAMA), nationwide lowest rating : 3.6%, highest rating : 6.3% (source : WIKIPEDIA). It's the same, MONDAY-TUESDAY DRAMA. It's Clear that RWTMR 8.8-10% rating is HIGH ! At the 4th Eps, the highest rating per minute soared to 11.6%. The rating is very promosing. We just hope the best solution for this Great Drama from KBS & production team. Please don't bully this drama. This drama is innocent.

      http://sports.khan.co.kr/entertainment/sk_index.html?art_id=202102241157003&sec_id=540201&pt=nv

  • Even if that turns out to be true, what's the relevance of that to the gravity of the situation being discussed here? Also, wouldn't it be a legitimate claim that ratings might actually tank even further because these are serious accusations of physical and sexual violence directed to one of the leads?

    There's a place and time for pettiness. Not here. Not this time.

    • Bugger off. No one's talking to you.

    • Because reputation is important for the kdrama, KBS and the whole kdrama industry.drama with a scandalous actor. I bet the ratings will not survive next week at all, as allegations grew.

    • These users @Li Pei Yee and @EW! are haters of RWTMR ever since even before this issue. You're just feeding them by replying and giving them strength to bash a drama as they pleased. Seeing how they aggree with each other disgust me. People with no better things to do in life but to instigate and spread hate. @EW! or @eff off whatever, your usernames suits you.

    • These Lai Pei Yee and EW are Yoo Jung fans. They want RWTMR to flop like Backstreet Rookie which was aired in a Fri-Sat of SBS but failed to garner double digit national ratings. Hahahaha.

    • lmao @luna why are you bringing KYJ into this? I'm not biased to either of them, but I always see people on this blog dragging her into this whenever anything bad happens to KSH, it just seems like a poor look on you. Also if you want to compare apples to apples, RWTMR took over from Royal Secret Agent, which ended on high ratings of 14% while TKEM ended on low ratings. Either ways, ratings are irrelevant here, I'm much more worried about the victims of Ji Soo's school violence and the hardworking staff and actors on RWTMR who don't deserve this.

• Lot of people already disliked RWTMR even before this was revealed. But I really love this drama, but now after finding out what Ji Soo have done I will drop this drama. I know that maybe I should have continued watching for the other actors and crew (to support them) but I just can't keep going because Ji Soo's character is after all the ML...I have been bullied, not physically but I know how hurtful it is. And he even sexually assaulted?? That makes it even worse!
  Off to watch The Tale of Nokdu instead, haven't watched it yet.

• If this is true, I hope his career will be destroyed to pieces, just like how he destroyed to pieces every single kids he bullied. I won't support this trash or even his drama anymore.