Production of OCN Drama Island Confirms Seo Ye Ji’s Departure and Will Look for New Female Lead, Brand Sponsor Also Begin to Drop Her Campaign

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• Honestly, who cares about who is more wrong - KJH or SYJ, even if I think there is too much male victim blaming of “why can’t KJH just man up and tell his possessive gf at the time to stop gaslighting and manipulating him into her wishes.” They both sound terrible for one another. People are human, they make mistakes, blah blah blah.

  BUT at the end of the day, these people are PAID actors. They have a job; they are expected to do it in return for payment. The fact that EITHER of these two thought it was remotely acceptable to establish a “mutual” (idk about that, sounds like SYJ had no problems with skinship in her dramas at the time) agreement of no skinship AT THE EXPENSE of the drama they were paid to do just shows their lack of respect for others involved and the money needed to produce a drama. If they can’t do their job (and promote the drama with good press), then they should rightfully have the professionalism and consideration to bow out before jeopardizing the efforts of innocent bystanders.

  She (and him) deserves to step out of the limelight for now and get their personal life in order before coming back and letting their negative backlash ruin any more production and requiring an entire team to deal with the consequences of their personal choices.

  Long story short, they both kind of suck if you consider their lack of professionalism in their jobs, and they kind of deserve the consequences of letting their poor personal choices affect their jobs. One of them definitely comes across more toxic on a personal level, even if this entire relationship sounds like a trainwreck.

  • Also, if this is how SYJ/KJH treats their fellow colleagues, I would not want to work with either of them. Period. Seems like my time and efforts are not valued because they are too preoccupied with themselves instead of helping me carry the team that paid me.

    • Agree. They both suck, period, and unprofessional borderline an insult to the profession and art that is, acting.

      Everyone s been demanding KJH to apologise to Time’s crew, staff, and Seohyun. He better apologises from the bottom of his deepest heart because what he has done was atrocious.
      But Seo Ye Ji needs to apologise to Time’s crew, staff and Seohyun just the same!!!!! Being a colleague in the same industry, being both females, being actresses, a profession and an art form where everything relies on emoting; I can’t believe, I CAN’T BELIEVE Seo Ye Ji would be this inconsiderate to SeoHyun. She must know how incredible difficult it is to act, but to act with a male lead partner that would not only NOT reciprocate the feeling, but made her life behind the scene and her job HELL.
      If you can’t honor your profession and respect the art of acting, please just exit. Plenty of people dreaming to have this kind of opportunity and would have given their all.
      I don’t know how SEOHYUN managed to come back after this kind of traumatic and unimaginably painful experience... I would have walked away because it would have left such an irreversible anxiety, trauma and pain in my heart. So glad she managed to find some light and healed and made a comeback (hopefully she got a lot of therapists and mental support!)

      I can’t believe how cruel we can be in the name of “LOVE” to another human being, to another fellow female in this same difficult field where your job is to be in character.
      The abuse of power, the abuse in the name of forever love, the unkindness of it all. This display of behaviour shown in the message exchange between KJH and SYJ... I cannot. Inexcusable, and they both need to endlessly apologise to Time crew staff and SEOHYUN for the pain, emotional struggles they all had to go through!!!!!

• One of my friend said that she didn't do any wrong because it's a personal matter but her rumour/accusations isn't just about her love life, it also comes with the four men fiasco, staff bad treatment, being a difficult on set and how she sticks her nose to her ex-stuff. Dominant-submissive relationship shouldn't inconvenience other people .

  One of the reason she got work when the staff complained is because the public like her and since the public doesn't appreciate her manipulative world view , she gets what she deserves. People don't want to work with difficult people.

• I usually don’t engage in gossip- it’s not in my character, not my business who dates whom. But I just couldn’t pass on this 2008 funny post by a very young Kim Soo Hyun. It’s about what kind of girl he would date and what he would not allow her to do to him.Hehe. No wonder, according to the same site, he only dated Seo Ye Ji for a very short time.

  https://www.koreaboo.com/stories/excessive-conditions-kim-soo-hyun-girlfriend/

  • Hmm...sounds like SYJ type of demands...but of course everyone is okay with it because none of his ex’s have released damning text msgs yet.

    • If I'm remembering he was criticized for that post and he apologized or so. Until his skeletons come out, let's refrain from dragging him into this.

    • * If I'm remembering right...

    • Not the type to engage in gossip. Then proceeds to go dig up a pre-fame 2008 post by a then-young actor. I wonder what you'd be like if it was actually in your character to engage in gossip.

    • Hanging out at sites like Koreaboo and then prefaces the comment with not one to engage in gossip, but still finds the way here to comment ?

  • @ITR Did you read the 2008 post by Kim Soo Hyun I linked to? You misunderstand why I mentioned him. It’s not for gossip, it’s for pure analysis purpose. Even at his tender age the guy doesn’t want a controlling, mistrusting girlfriend. Sounds like he is terrified of the type. That’s why I don’t believe that Kim Soo Hyun even dated Seo Ye Ji (as implied by Kmedia) before she started dating his cousin - she would be too controlling for him.

  • Hmm. Did you read the post I linked to? I was praising Kim Soo Hyun for knowing what kind of girlfriend (controlling, mistrusting) he DOES NOT want, even at his tender age. Therefore it’s unlikely that he dated SYJ before she got to his cousin (according to Kmedia) because KSH is terrified of controlling type girlfriends. I think my analytical attempt was misunderstood as gossip. Oh well.

• Damn. Welps. This role and drama alongside KNG would've brought her career to new heights. Any guesses on the new FL? The writers made the role based on SYJ. Is there an actress similar to her acting and aura minus the messiness?

  What an utter clusterf*ck of a situation. I wonder if she will be able to regain her career again? I can't imagine it going back to the way it was before she did IOTNBO. If KJH's statement comes out, and paints her in an awful light, I think she's done...

  • If they wrote the character based on SYJ, then I'm not sure anyone could play it exactly like she would. Which is why they're going to rewrite the character, maybe tone her down and tailor it to another actress. I saw someone on Twitter throw Lee Elijah's name into the ring. But I'm not too familiar with her work to tell.

    • Lee Elijah is gorgeous and a decent actress. Not a bad choice.

    • She is so beautiful and elegant! I liked her way more than Shin Min Ah in Chief of Staff.

      She's one of those young actresses who really got shafted by shitty drama casting processes.

    • Lee Elijah is a nice choice, I have a feeling that they’ll reduce the focus on the FL if they are drastically revising the script so she’d have to be relegated to 3rd billing after CEW... hope that would not be the case

• I personally think Kim Jung Hyun is not a horrible person because the only time he fucked up was when he was dating her..Even the industry people seemed to support him..I remember during CLOY press-con the director said that he had to talk for hours with him to convince him to come out of his hiatus and take the role..If he really had a bad reputation of being unprofessional without any reason to the point of changing the entire plot of the drama , why would such an expensive drama team like CLOY would want to cast him when there are far popular and non-scandalous actors out there ...
  I genuinely hope he apologizes to the people whom he hurt since his condition seems to be better now..
  As for Yeji, well Pandora's box is just starting to open...and i already see people blaming him for deflecting the blame..Well, her being shitty to her staff is not his fault..

• Was browsing the KOFIC list of actors and her name is in there. Wonder if she will be bumped out of the list and will be replaced by someone else.

  This is seriously a bewildering scandal for me because I can't wrap my head around it. I mean, I'm really baffled how a rookie actor was able to make such demands on set. It's not like he asked once. From what I've read, he asked a total of 13 scenes to be edited and rewritten. Was Time a small-scale, couldn't-secure-proper-funding type of production that they'd allowed a not so well-known actor influence the direction of the show? I'm not trying to excuse his behavior in any way nor invalidate whatever he was going through during that time. I'm just weirded out by the fact that they allowed him to reign in and sabotage the whole production that way when he wasn't exactly in the position of influence. From what I understand his management company isn't that big and influential either.

  SYJ has serious issues. That much I can say. The fact that her management didn't even refute the content of the text exchanges. And if rumors are true about her behaviors on set, I don't think it's wise for KOFIC to promote her as one of their bests when the intention of the campaign is to introduce and market their actors to international film projects.

  • Eventually once the dust settles, the truth will come out. I think in a few months time, it will be more easier to understand where all this leads up to. But I do have rme, when Lee Byung Hyun (allegedly) has done worse by hushing up his alleged baby mama, and dumped her, and he's now fine. Gross, makes my blood boil. While these pairing's actions were awful, one toxic, the other deranged. Is it career ender, imo, no? But they just have to trust and hope that the public will forget this, and a worse case/scandal pops up after this. Which is how SJK/SHK's marriage/rumors were able to die down as GHS/AJH's divorce stuff took over.

    As for KOFIC, that whole thing seems like a fluffed up PR piece. Best of Korean cinema talents, lol ok. Also, the KOFIC CEO guy (head of cinema) got arrested or something like that. So they're postponing the next batch of talents. Messy.

    • It might as well just be PR fluff, but KOFIC is a state-sponsored organization and serves as an important support body to the Korean film industry. I tried searching for the arrest you've mentioned, but the only recent controversy I could find was the recent appointment of KOFIC's secretary general who had embezzlement issues in the past. Even so, the campaign seems to remain in full swing since they've just posted a new batch of introductory videos of some of the actors on their YT channel. Given that the campaign hasn't actually stopped, I don't think SYJ's issue will be sorted out anytime soon and her inclusion in the list might be seen as detrimental to the campaign.

• Idk why but I dropped its okay because I can't stand her, idk if it's character or just her aura. It creeped me out no matter how mich I love KSH.

  • Same here! Can't even pass through the second episode no matter how I like kim soo hyun. I have no issue with syj and even now I won't condemn her but I just can't watch her in IONTBO and feel that there is really something off with her..

    • I remember on running man SYJ kinda creepy too. No female guess behave like her. Now it makes sense I guess

  • Same here.

• What a mess. So many rumors about SYJ from years ago has resurfaced, from school bullying, antics at filming set, up to her dubious educational background. It's such a shame because I thought she has potential to be a star but there's NO way I could ever see her in the same way ever again.

  Somehow although KJH also messed up big time and was thoroughly irresponsible as an actor, I am inclined to feel sympathy for him as he was reportedly in a bad mental state during filming according to staffs involved with Time production. There was a rumor years ago that he had attempted su*cide. I hope he would apologize cleanly and come out of this mess safely.

• He just published his apology. He even apologized to O&Entertainment as well Guess what? No mention of SYJ - AT ALL. And GM insinuated in their release that KJH will exonerate her. Good on him. I was still afraid that he might be suffering from Stockholm syndrome. It is what it is. Truly these two need to leave the industry and start reflecting. Learn some professionalism and acquire more humanity. Become better and happier people please.

  • If true, good for him for having the professionalism and respectfulness to not play the blame game and start pointing fingers. I hope he just leaves it at that and not make any mention of SYJ - forgiveness or blame.

    Regardless, sounds like karma is coming for SYJ hard... and there isn’t military service to save her. You reap what you sow.

    • Its brewing really ugly according to articles in naver. The penalties from her CFs campaigns fallout alone will be in the millions. Now dominating the headlines is faking of spanish university acceptance thing. Koreans are very sensitive when it comes to education and her pathological lies are seemingly catching up with her. Today might be the last day I keep informed on whats happening on thar front. It is getting exhausting... So much drama. The good news though, adding Island to my must watch list.

  • Do you think either KJH or SYJ can ever make a comeback in the industry again?

    I read the translated Korean netizen comments and they are vile. Seems like they are very unforgiving. What KJH is wrong, but his apology seems sincere and he placed the blame on no one but himself.

• Im sorry if this is a simple question but how did Dispatch got those text messages? Legal or Illegal? If illegal, can KJH file a case against Dispatch?

  • Why would KJH be sueing dispatch. Fat chance he was the one that leaked those messages to throw his ex under the bus and shield himself in the first place. Isn't it obvious who benefited from those messages being leaked. The public's anger and outrage have shifted towards SYJ. It would have been much worse for him had those messages not been leaked. Poeple now have a new target to attack. He didn't mention those leaked messages once in his letter of apology.