K-actor Jo Jin Woong Announces Retirement From Prolific Acting Career in Light of Revelations of His Juvenile Record
This was one fasting moving reveal to resolution, and I’ve been watching entertainment news for too long to wonder if there was more to the story. K-actor Jo Jin Woong announced that he will retire from his entertainment career, in a statement taking responsibility for any transgressions from his juvenile days that recently came to light. Dispatch revealed earlier this week that when he was underage, he was booked for sexual assault and robbery and after his release he changed his name to start afresh. Jo Jin Woong’s agency responded that it was true he had a juvie record, but he paid his dues and served his time, and the crimes did not include sexual assault as Dispatch alleged, but it was true he did change his name afterwards. Within a day of all this coming to light, Jo Jin Woong announced that he is retiring as an actor effective immediately, apologized for his past conduct and will reflect on any of his wrongdoings, and live life going forward with as an upright person. In light of his retirement, it remains unclear if projects he filmed that have not yet aired most notably the second season of Signal called The Second Signal can air next year as planned.
South Korea. The most toxic society on the planet. Made mistakes in his youth. Has obviously lived a decent life since. But hey, let’s destroy the rest of your life for mistakes you made when you were 16.
One country I would never consider living. Just awful group-mentality people. No wonder their suicide rate is so high. Vile.
To be fair, many countries are the same. People easily get cancelled anywhere. Asia does seem to hold people to higher standards and does come down hard on those who make mistakes. Suicide rates are high in many Asian countries where there is a lot of pressure on people to succeed and do well.
Quite mean to call a country vile.
He really ran at the speed of light. And now someone else in the industry has exposed him for violence and mistreatment in the past. There might be more coming out.
I wonder why some people were quick to assume he changed his ways and lived a decent life after committing those crimes. He had DUI and assault cases as a young adult as well… People don’t change easily!
Wish they do the same to vile school bullies and hardcore child predators. Not even sure what he did in and his age but shouldn’t he be heard? Repentant people deserves 2nd chance? Anyway this may be Korean speak for laying low since you can always come out of retirement.
Korea doesnt seem (for the most part) to cancel actor’s projects forever when questionable pasts are revealed, so hopefully these shows will still air.
I personally don’t care about Signal 2 (I kind of struggled to finish season 1), but I have to say that normally juvie records are sealed or even erased after a few years of crimeless adulthood, and the reason is exactly to give the kid who made some bad choices to start over. Has he committed any crimes since? If not, this seems unfair.