Lee Sang Yoon Puts Foot in Mouth in One the Woman Post Drama Interview When He Says the Cast was So Happy Competitor The Veil Ratings Dropped

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• That’s freakin ignorant lol. I dunno how someone who’s been in the industry for that long, can say something this… stupid?

  Lol NGM’s acting is unrivalled so this is one of those embarrassing quotes he prob already regrets.

• Okay, I agree this comment was not the most refined but his acting was fine in One The Woman. Honey Lee hammed her way through the entire drama which I guess Koreans loved but was very annoying at times personally for me. I feel like Lee Sang Yoon balanced it out well by being a restrained counterpart to her. The comments about The Veil, it is rude but harmless comment and I feel like is being blown out of proportions.

  • Agreed. I also notice that Koreans have a tendency to overreact. Especially so when matters concern sensitive issues made more so by needless conjecturing.

    • I am also a Honey Lee fan an never fail to admire her acting ability and those cute dimples!

• Given how K-netizens are, he probably 100% regrets saying that. I don't think he meant it in a malicious way, but this was probably better off said in private. That being said, LSY is usually a straight man who bolsters his FL's. I thought he did fine, giving a nice contrast between him and Lee Honey.

  @Ockoala You should post this article the Chosun article, that talked about how Jun Ji Hyun, Go Hyun Jung, and Lee Young Ae's come back works faltered. Yet One the Woman, which the industry didn't expect to be a hit managed to uphold expectations. I was surprised a bit, because Lee Honey recently has made a name for herself, yet she's not highly regarded. Plus, Kim Ah Joong was suppose to be the FL in the show too.

• People these days are being over-sensitive.

  He was just being spontaneous without malicious intent. Most ppl would react the same, feeling grateful when you know you are leading esp when you are the underdog, going against a top competitor. In the case of LSY, he wasn't crafting anything, thus the slip that triggered the over sensitive bunch unnecessarily.

  It seems people these days just prefer fakeness and sugar coating instead of being human. One wrong choice of word, and you get criticized as if they themselves are so perfect.

  • I agree Alexa. I get it if he denounced NGM's talents and the show's quality, but he didn't do that. I don't even care for LSY, but dude was thrilled that One the Woman which the industry looked down on, compared to The Veil did amazing.

    I hope he doesn't apologize, and that this issue can die down. The focus should be on Lee Honey for pulling through, even more so because she was the second choice. I much prefer these type of comments then the fake ones, lets be real, its a competition there, you want the show that your in to succeed especially when many don't think you would succeed.

  • Isn't MBC which has consistently been at the bottom of the ratings barrel the underdog here, though? SBS is the top competitor among the Big Three [plus 'OTW' is makjang which always sells] so they had a stronger chance of winning the ratings game than MBC which has been flopping hard for what feels like forever.

• This is news? Wow.

• Honestly that's a pretty mean thing to say. I really don't think most actors necessarily feel good about their competition's ratings worsening. I always thought that comes in tandem with their show's ratings climbing and the latter is really why they are happy. So I don't get why he had to add that he was happy that the ratings dropped for the Veil. Most actors will be equally satisfied if their show is a hit and their competitor performs well too. Most of them have duds now and then and I assume they will have more sympathy for shows which aren't performing well.

  • "I really don't think most actors necessarily feel good about their competition's ratings worsening" You better believe they do. It is a brutal business. Don't get me wrong, it was one of those things you might say behind the scenes on the drama set but not in front of the press. But, yeah, they were no doubt thrilled.

    • Not true. There's no joy if your competitor's rating worsen and yours is languishing as well. There is no less joy if your work is a hit and your competitor is improving too. As I said, the direct reason is the success of your own work, so however other projects perform, it's not relevant. It's just the cause or effect. In any case, what he said is definitely mean and it speaks volumes of a person's personality for feeling this way.

    • I'm not saying that it is not mean, I'm saying it is very innocent or naive to think they aren't in a ratings battle. A hit show ends up meaning more offers for more money per episode and getting big bucks for CFs which is where the big money really is.

      I know The King of Dramas is an older show and a dark satire, but I highly recommend it. Basically this actors mistake is he said the quiet part out loud.

• Poor choice of words by Lee Sang Yoon. He could have just said he was happy about his dramas ratings without being gleeful about the other drama coming in behind them.

  He needs to have some humility because he had all the presence of wet tissue paper in One The Woman and his romantic chemistry with Honey Lee was limper a wilted lettuce leaf. LSY might be tall, good-looking and educated but he is lacking in the charisma and talent department. He was beyond bland in VIP too. Feels like just because he is always praised for his looks and background he barely makes an effort onscreen anymore.

  I admit I dropped the drama at episode 12 because the writing got progressively idiotic every week and the buffoonery got so nonsensical I stopped caring but all credit to Honey Lee hard carried this second-rate comedy drama.

  • You really thought you did something here.

• This guy has been blander than cardboard in every drama I've watched him in. I agree with K-netz. He should come back when his acting can rival NGM's. Honey Lee hard-carried OTW and his role could have been played by anyone. Even if he said it with no ill intentions, it was still a thoughtless remark, especially since The Veil was the struggling MBC's Hail Mary to save them from mass destruction. But it's not a career-ending faux pas. An apology could smooth things over. Now on to next!

• If what he's saying is true that the cast and production was happy about Veil's ratings going down then he's basically spilling tea that this is most likely the norm for dramas airing around the same time. Based on koala's post, it's not like he said HE was personally happy about it, it was alot of people working on the drama. Shows how competitive the industry is.

  He's in trouble for saying too much that people would prefer not to know or hear from him in particular.

• Major foot in mouth, though it should not be a cancellable offense. Still, I can see why this comment is in bad taste, cheering like that when Korean shows could barely break 5% these days. They should try pulling each other up given the state of the industry. If anything, "The Veil" actually was the best-performing MBC miniseries since "My Secret Terrius," and a more magnanimous actor would point that out.

  • Yeah LSY who koala mentioned had another mini controversy with what he said, umm does anyone know what mini controversy was that? He seems rather quiet/shy in real life, but also a bit curt it seems given his response here. The Veil ratings were higher in the first week, and it had a bigger star and budget. But if he said the staff/crew were also pleased than it says that the industry adds on to that animosity.

    The more magnanimous actors I remember were So Ji Sub, Kim Sun Ah (Uhm Ki Joon had Ghost), and Kim Nam Gil (Ju Ji Hoon had Item), both of whom in public said they were rooting for their competition, and saying that its all in good fun. LSY never really has led a drama on his own as the titular character. Whereas, NGM has and won big awards for it so talent wise not comparable at all. Perhaps some jealously there too?