Park Sung Hoon Drops Out of Upcoming Sageuk Romance K-drama A Tyrant’s Chef with Yoona
The drama gods giveth and the drama gods taketh away, and in this case within the span of one very eventful month for K-actor Park Sung Hoon. Early in December he was cast in upcoming time travel romance sageuk drama A Tyrant’s Chef with Yoona and it would be one of his highest profile male lead roles. Then his ensemble role in Squid Game 2 came out at the end of December and his role as a transgender former Marine playing the game for his gender reassignment surgery became a fan favorite. All was well until he posted on SNS a screenshot of a SQ parody film which turned out to be hardcore porn. He deleted it immediately but the damage was done, he had to apologize profusely but the K-netizens continue to be furious with him, both for the inappropriate content given that he’s an entertainer and needs to set a good moral example and more importantly that it was posted on the heel of the Jeju Airlines plane crash disaster when the country was in official mourning. Call it a dumb mistaken compounded by bad timing. Now he’s confirmed to have dropped out of A Tyrant’s Chef reportedly in an amicable mutual decision by his agency BH Entertainment and the production of the drama. As much as its disappointing to see him punished for something with no meaningful consequence and to which he apologized sincerely, this is best for the production as his involvement will continue to be harped on by K-netizens.
It may seem dumb to those outside of Korea but each work place has their ways and that plane crash and period of mourning is not the time to crack jokes and make mistakes as he did and when netizens put their minds to to fight they will not relent especially to sensitive issues as this. Different culture with consequences to differences we may not comprehend but it is what it is.
Most of the knetz have been saying that if only the drama genre wasnt romance, it wouldn’t have come to this. I found the whole thing rather mortifying on his behalf, but seriously I hope this is the last of the consequences specific to this incident. There are far more serious crimes committed in Kent that needs to be crucified over this.
On another note, I’m curious to see who they’ll get to replace him.
Korea pretends to be a sinless country yet they love the steamy kissy kissy scenes in their kdrama lead couples. Are there no men buying sex there? Are there no LGBTQ or trans people? Of course there are. They do everything the west does only behind closed doors. As long as the world doesn’t see it, it doesn’t exist. Don’t be fooled by all that bowing and nice polite chat. Korea is the vainest country on the planet.