Javabeans. Okay,

I have come up with the perfect solution. Javabeans, as you know, some of us have seen your face... So, you are a perfect replacement!!!!

Just fly over to Korea right now! You CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!

Take her place, finish up the drama and you will be come an overnight sensation!!! You can even help with the writing when you are not acting. It's a win/win situation!

You can pick Girlfriday up on your way and she can be your body double. She'll do all the difficult scenes like swinging from ropes and fighting and stuff.

And you get to Kiss Eric and Lee Jin-wook!!!!!

It's PERFECT!!!!!!!

GUYs! This is seriously getting so dramatic, that I don't even know who to side with! In all honesty, now I'm just P-I-S-S-E-D...as a fan of SMW, and being so pumped because of how the last episode ended. I was waiting this whole week for the next one! and now its not gonna air *sigh*....But in all seriousness HYS need to open her MOUTH and start saying something...because this just looks bad...she should clear up allot of things....now that we realized that it actually has to do with the PD and HYS. A simple explanation on her side...might make this look better, like maybe that she was demanded to be on set when she shouldn't be (instead of 2am...5am filming) and because of this she would leave when she knew it was her time to go...like not over-working herself.

*Note: This is stuff i'm just saying that she should say, if true! Who knows if this is what actually is occurring.

But ohhh lets make this more juicy...maybe she can't come out at all because the PD harassed her- GASP! :O That's whats been said by many on forums...this is seriously getting so out of hand.

Han Ye Seul is no rookie to the industry, so she would have known that an action like this had a 90% probability to turn into a smear campaign for her with the way netizens tend to go. That being said, this makes me think that there must be a very serious and pressing matter going on that she would risk her reputation and future job offers.

Sidus HQ is such a big agency in Korea, yet I feel like they are not handling this matter on par with what is required to go against the big guns of rumor-mongering and KBS. They need to step it up to defend their actress, this is all getting quite out of hand.

I hope a resolution can be found soon. I did enjoy this drama. :(

I think she went through something similar a few years ago? I don't remember what exactly, but some people were saying how unprofessional she was, something was said. LOL I couldn't be more vague.

On the other hand, I WANT her blazer! I've been looking for the same one for ages.

On the one hand, yeah, this is terrible for the production and maybe (based on comments on the first page) she could've been more professional about it, but at the same time, I can't help but feel sympathetic to her. I've definitely been in a place where I feel like I'm being taken advantage of but I can't complain about it and I can't complain about it and I can't complain about it - until one day you're so exhausted and so angry and so fed up that you don't care anymore; you're done. That doesn't magically resolve the problem here, with regards to the production, and certainly it doesn't absolve her of certain responsibilities or expectations, but I still can't really fault her.

On a semi-related note: Lord, I hope they revise the live shoot system soon. It seems like every week there's word of another accident or a breakdown on set fueled by exhaustion, and that's just the actors and the directors. How much stress must the staff and crew be dealing with? How many of them are in accidents or missing nights of sleep trying to rush to get episodes down on time?

hv u guys read the article in allkpop!!!
eric wasted 16hours just waiting to go back filming without resting & wearing thick makeup!!!

that's professional i say!!!

HYS u owe everybody a sincere apology!!! i hope your reason is good enough to make us forgive u!!
or else you'r just too much

sigh I was so frazzled over this and went and watched Scent of a Woman. All better :) <3

LOL!

This is not good and it is loose-loose situation...

nobody is benefitting from failing to air the episodes, when all the viewers are all hyped up to heat of Myung-Wol...

I want to see this drama till the end. oh please please.. everybody just tolerate and co-operate with each other.

We're passed half of the story..

Aja-aja Fighting!!...

Even though I don't know the whole story, sometime the way Asian people (I am also Asian) handle the business can be very unprofessional sometime! I assume that since HYS grew up in the US, she likes to speak up for herself when it starts to seem unfair to her! Fighting!!! I will still love you and watch your every work!!!! Big Hugs and LOVE!!! <3

Now it's come out that she's not actually sick. She asked the PDs to be changed out and they didn't comply exactly (They just added another one) and after she found out, she called in and said she's not coming anymore.

What i'd like to know, is what is wrong with the PD??

I'm so glad you are reporting it this way. It's true that so many people are being nasty and ignorant, accusing the actress of many things.

I hate seeing ignorant people say that she is lazy, doing this for attention, etc. It's true that she's not correct in what she's doing, but we also don't know completely what is going on. I don't think anyone has the right to attack or accuse her of anything unless they work within KBS (and know what's going on), or are the PD or HYS. If you don't know the situation don't make ignorant remarks. People who do that are not true 'fans' and only care about what they want, regardless of the actors/entertainers that have to suffer for it.

The truth will only be known by those who work behind-the-scenes. I think the media is sensationalizing the issue way too much, so I can't really pick sides. I see faults with both sides, but overall, I don't really UNDERSTAND anything.

What did HYS's original contract state? I think the root of the issue is her contract. So many people are claiming this and that about her contract and using her contract as evidence against or for HYS. Either way, HYS's image has definitely suffered from this and the drama also will probably limp along. I feel bad for everyone involved in this and wish the truth were clearer.

Is this timeslot for KBS cursed? SMW is having problems, and the next drama airing (Poseidon) definitely has (and probably will continue to have) problems...sighh

" They assume I’ll do things that even Korean-Americans and certainly not white Americans would think to presume, primarily because the latter are aware of liability issues in a litigious USA."

I don't even... Just say: " They assume I’ll do things that Americans would not think to think to presume".

I can't even get into what was wrong with the original because the thread doesn't need another fight and because there were too many to list.

Ok. I haven't read any of the comments, so I'll just address the article and my own bias from working in Korea.

To be honest, from the facts alone (namely, she stated from the outset she wanted a more efficient work schedule, she apparently let it go, she had problems with the PD, and she warned him/her that she wouldn't be coming on the Saturday...) I believe her unprofessionalism is warranted and savors strongly of...assertiveness.

Sounds weird, right? But, I'm foreals. I think her problems with the PD stems from the shooting system, not the other way around, and the PD's attempts to appease her with lies, or at least half-truths.

Of course, I'm biased. I work here in Korea, on a pretty rigorous schedule for a public school, but I take it, because I love my job. What I don't love is the communication barriers, the outright lying to save face, the patriarchal hierarchy that allows superiors to lie and make outrageous demands, and that your "work family" trumps your actual family, to the point where my co-worker sees her newborn baby on weekends if she's lucky. Also, free time doesn't exist for anyone, and it's considered ridiculously selfish to demand a break (someone else must notice how tired you are and demand you rest, don't do it for yourself).

All this affects me peripherally, though; I'm mostly excluded from it because I'm a foreigner, and we're notorious for blithely stomping all over these cultural delicacies and clutching our contracts like they're divine edicts (often obnoxiously, but nonetheless...). When you're Korean, however, what's your excuse? And when you're a Korean who's obviously been abroad and seen people not sleeping on bus benches after a 14 hour workday but in their beds after an eight hour one, you're actually worse off. Caught between two worlds, I guess. It's difficult to adjust to either.

But, those are the normal jobs, not those of the bizarre celebrity economy. It just occurred to me that I probably know more about what actors do here for their jobs than in America. I'm sure Hollywood works hard, but I don't recall it being a regular thing for actors to be worked to exhaustion, to the point where they end up in hospital to recover.

That's pretty fucking serious. For an actor to take heat because she refuses to run her immune system into the ground indicates the perversion of the current live-shooting system, as well as the values of the entire culture, outside of the celebrity sphere. (I'm NOT saying those values are perverted. NO. Rather, I'm saying those values are being taken to a ridiculous extreme.)

I realize she's taking heat because she didn't show up for her shoot both days, but she told the PD, heatedly, she wouldn't be there on one. The PD obviously didn't tell the crew. And clearly somebody thought it'd be easier to lie to her rather than negotiate. She's one person against the PDs and crew, how can she successfully publish her side of it?

I think her mistakes are fighting so strenuously with the PD and being no-show on the Sunday, if she only mentioned no-showing it Saturday.

If she's sacrificing her image (and we all know now what a commodity that is...^^) then it must be bad, right. And I hope, too, that things are on the way to changing...

Nooo so no new ep this week.. =( Well can't blame her if she told them way before they should take actions..she is not a slave after all you know..

This short of this could happen..

2 hours of sleep?
Crazy.
Health first, suing second.

if lets say HYS did ask for a lighter load from the director and was ignored.. could it be because she was one of the leads? and it would mean cutting eric's time too? mostly anyway?

i heard that they shot the 40% around MW-less scenes.. and they filmed the others first.. i understand that live shooting is a pain and i definitely dont agree.. but i also think about eric.. he was waiting a lot in between and is also tired.. if not more.. from the look on him lately.. plus of course the crew waiting on her and everything was hold. i dont wanna call sides but HYS is being a bit too much really. to say she wouldnt go to the monday shoot (15th) according other sources i read. but i dunno whats going on. but they need to fix this.

dont agree with live shooting indeed so man things happen. but i just feel what about the other cast too... they need to keep healthy as well.

We can't really point fingers because we don't know the whole story. I must say though, the off-screen drama is actually more interesting than the drama itself.

I've been admiring the amount energy of HYS had put into this drama from ep 1 - 10. I wondered how exhausted she must be with all her action moves. I was really enjoying it. She can really act funny & kick ass. I hope they still get to end it well & not just leave it hanging. If she's not coming back to shoot, her part can end like she died when she shot herself thinking the gun blank bullets. Nkorea "kill Myung wol" orders etc...hm maybe?
Anyway I hope it ends well so Eric & Ryu are not left hanging. I will still keep on watching HYS. I like her & she was really doing well in as spy Myung wol.
I'll wait. Meanwhile there are other good dramas to watch while waiting...

ya it does seem unprofessional on her part regardless of PD or crazy schedule. because all d crew were there on stand by- afraid to go in case she suddenly turns up. hope it'll be resolved soon.

I got this from Absolute Shinhwa

Apparently it's a transcript of the crews, commenting on HYS all the way back in July. I don't know what to say, but I don't really believe.

Number 1: This is from July, why didn't those crazy neitzens find out about this?
Number 2: I don't think a crew memeber would say things like this PUBLICLY. She's an actress, and your a crew member, they can fire you....but have to meet her demands. Like getting a new PD.
Number 3: It's just SO LONG! Why would someone say something so detailed.
Number 4: This is just to insane, they would have probably sued her ass, if she was being such a bitch.

Anyways guys read on...it's very interesting. I'm like 10% it true, and 90% not.

"I understand that actresses are stupid, but while we’re shooting Eric says his lines but she won’t do hers a lot of the time; she says she doesn’t want to do things that make her look funny so she won’t say her lines. She came all the way to far away Mungyeong, turned off her manager’s cell phone, and they just left the set together; because of that the other actors/staff had to put up with a really tight schedule and that made everyone tired. They had to go back to Mungyeong to film that scene. She wanted less scenes with her in them because she’s tired and asked instead to extend Eric’s scenes. In the scenes where she has to appear with Eric together she doesn’t show any consideration for Eric; she just goes in to quarrel with the director. Filming for the drama’s plainly going to be mostly all-nighters and the drama will practically be broadcast live, but she says she wants a 5 day workweek and she also wants us to finish up filming for the day everyday at midnight. We have to build up the Myeongwol-Kang Woo relationship and continue the melo story but she makes Eric look stupid because she doesn’t even try to understand what the script is about. All the news came out because of her but the next day she didn’t even look apologetic and she went around proudly. She never wants to do anything that makes her look funny or bad; in the scene where she had to get hit with eggs she treated the stuntman so badly when there was nothing wrong and she made the stuntman film the scene for her. Sidus can’t control her, so in the articles written against Han Yeseul they made Eric look bad too along with her when he’s trying his best. The atmosphere at the set is great when Han Yeseul is not there but when she comes in, it changes; it settles down. Even when we try to tell Han Yeseul’s staff and the production company about this she just acts as she pleases. If she does it one more time I think I’m going to swear directly in her face next time I see her. I’m sorry this is so unorganized, I’m so mad."

I just want to say that I'm so so so sorry you didn't choose to recap Protect the boss instead of this one! Why don't you give up on this and take on P the boss, I don't think it's too late....pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

live shooting is a common practice in korea ... since when ?

by agreeing to do a drama, i suppose the actors and actresses are already aware of what they're getting themselves into ?

to try and change the system is not going to take an individual effort, more help is required and should be done at an appropriate time say before the drama starts shooting ?

the drama's coming to an end, less than 1 month of filming needs to be done, maybe even less than that ... to suddenly pull the plug now, it's kind of sad for her co-actors.

just read a co-actor's tweet regarding this ... he sounds real tired waiting without knowing what's going to happen next.

no matter how well-planned's a project (in this case the drama), there're always interruptions like weather changes, venue unavailable, storyline change (in this case). it's the whole team (from PD to lighting to actors/actresses) that need to work together to ensure the project/drama is delivered on time.

and when u're not happy with the project (drama)'s personnel, still be professional ... then make sure you never ever work with that person u dislike so much anymore.

Han Ye seul is not a robot or a machine that can work 24/7! Endurance varies from person to person.

She needs all the sleep she can get to stay pretty! Why is that so hard to understand? am sure y'all won't wanna watch pandas on TV, do ya?

i just read in Soompi that she left korea to LA??

this is soo fuc*ked up! whatta a bummer this is the only drama that ive been watching and this is what i get?

WOW 0_o

This scandal has been bugging me the whole day -___- I don't know if it's because I'm a Korean born in Korea and living in the US but even though I see both sides like the promise to viewers and respect for other staffers, I have to side with HYS. Apparently she left a text message to others saying "It's all my fault. Live happily" and left to LA. She wouldn't be leaving if there weren't enough reason to abandon all that money and fame. If she only cared about her public reputation and money (like a diva should) she would just give a scare to the PD and come back. Unfortunately, according to some news articles I've read, her contract with Sidus HQ is ending so they're not putting up much of a fight to defend her and she alone is too weak to fight the giant that KBS is. I think it came down to a fight or flight situation with the media frenzy and witch hunt and she chose the latter but I really don't think we should be making extreme judgments without both sides of the story as Sidus HQ hasn't done such a good job defending so far -__-

As an outsider, I'm new to this whole Netizen news and stuff, but even now I'm pulled into the "breaking new". The news feed on my computer keeps going off! Wow, they must work really hard in Korea. I always read about the vigor of working in entertainment, I never knew it was this stressful. I've always been like "how great would it be in the US if we got 2 episodes per week from our favorite shows?" but if it's this difficult and stressful then I can do without it.

I'm not on any one's side (lol, this is really scandalous!) because I don't know what actually happened, but if it's true that she actually came to the US, what do you think will happen to her here? I mean, do you think her acting skills are good enough to get her a job here? Is she not returning to Korea (Some reports say she bought a one-way ticket?)?

Sorry for any typos. I was too hyper to sit down and type properly (:

I truly dont really know this actress, I think she is beautiful but havent seen her b4,so I dont hate or like her. I think both sides have their fault and problem, but truly look at what is happening, she really lack of responsibility, doesnt care abt the whole staff at all, not only the staff, what abt the audience? other companies who sign advertising contracts with the drama, blah blah .... doesnt spend a second thinking what left behind her behavior..

I know how wors Live shoot system is but it is also a situation that shows actors reponsibility..Park shin hye attend on the filming set despite her serious accident and injuries Though her drama's rating was low ! I really feel bad for handsome Eric *sigh*

I think what HYS is doing is protesting against the system they are currently following which I think will become the inflection point of the K drama industry to revolve. May be it s about time now. I give thumps up for her to stand up for what she believe. But last time i heard one of Boys Before flowers's cast committed suicide due to sexual harrasment by the director of the production. Not sure which production though.

There are lots of other things behind the curtain in K - entertainment industry that we do not know. From what I see from both events (HYS n suicide actress case), it is really time for them to make a change for a better environment in future. HYS may be is the type of person who does what she is doing now set aside her diva attitude ( if it is true). There are lots of other actors and actress who wish they could have done what ye seul is doing but they don't have guts. At the end of the day actors/ actresses are just human being. Just change it for the betterment of the industry.