Two Future Ha Young Dramas with The Long Shot Trial with Lee Je Hoon and Trauma Code: Heroes on Call 2 with Joo Ji Hyun at Risk After Pro-Japanese Ancestor Scandal
The fallout from the pro-Japanese doctor ancestor scandal with K-actress Ha Young continues on, not really abating even one week into it. More information continues to come to light about her family – that her great-grandfather wasn’t just a pro-Japanese collaborator but actually married a Japanese woman and his household operated entirely in Japanese, that her grandfather worked in a medical operation on an island that quarantined diseased patients and may have conducted unethical medical tests, and that her mother studied abroad in the late 1970’s when it was extremely rare and could likely have only happened because of their family wealth and connections. All of their family wealth and good fortune with multiple generations of doctors is presumed to have came from her great-grandfather’s pro-Japanese ties. Anyhoo, her Netflix drama Our Sticky Love remains available for streaming and would not be pulled by an international platform like Netflix over what is essentially a Korean cultural and historical castigation on her family, but her next two dramas are now in question. She is filming legal drama The Long Shot Trial with Lee Je Hoon which is 2/3rds done and this October she was supposed to start filming season 2 of Trauma Code: Heroes on Call with Joo Ji Hoon. It’s not clear what will happen with either drama, if she will be replaced, or just go forward and maybe air later after this has (can) died down. Netizens are also pitying Lee Je Hoon for his string of bad luck as this is his third drama to run into a scandal by a costar – he had to re-film a lot of Taxi Driver when Na Eun was cancelled for bullying and highly anticipated Signal 2 completed filmed remains unclear if it will ever air after Jo Ji Woong left the industry over his serious juvenile record past.
If she donates a bunch of money and she sincerely apologizes again, this will all be under the rug. Also, Korean netizens will move on to the next big drama and entirely put their focus on that.
If she was ugly and fat, Koreans wouldn’t care.
S Korean and Netizens can hate on an her all they want. Fashion brands and marketing companies can choose to not work with her. But cast members and production team of her finished projects should not be punished along side her.
First time I heard and seen of this actress, I like her strong looks and charisma.
Too bad that it seems that she brought this woe on herself, but if she is good enough to rise to the top, it would have been outed anyway.
She should just admit that she is clueless about her family history, hate the family history, apologise. Thats all. But I dont see any comment from her since the scandal or did I miss it. Hmmmm…
She has done the handwritten apology thing. The timing of this is also terrible because National Liberation Day in Korea was just 2 days ago. And her company screwed up the PR. It’s almost like the fates are working against her. Or maybe it’s some weird karmic retribution against the entire lineage.
Maybe she can go to Jeon Hyo-sung route and study korean history and pass some certification for it as an expression of sincerity. Ha-young has a great screen presence and I was looking forward to seeing her in Trauma Code 2.
Trauma code still got time to change actress. It is just business.
This is how things go when a nation turns left: netizens pick on petty issues to distract from an economy going south. High household debt is crushing domestic consumer spending and driving up real estate risks, mirroring China’s situation. Relying strictly on a memory chip shortage will not reverse these toxic market trends.
Yes, k-netz are toxic, but I’d say this vitriol against her is pretty valid, since she brought it on herself with her ignorance and humble-bragging. Since she’s a woman and is not yet a top Hallyu star, I don’t think she can fully recover from this scandal, unlike a Song Hye Kyo or a Han So Hee and even with those 2, it took a while for them to get back into the public’s good graces.