People, do not turn this comment section into a minefield. You don’t like Im Soohyang because you don't like her acting or her face? That's your issue and you have no right to trash her or insult her.
Same with Kim Jung Hyun and the rest of the cast. There are several actors with huge fanbases whose acting I don't like and I don't go to their dramas comment sections to insult or criticize them because I realize it will create friction and unnecessary drama. Same here. This comment section exists so we can discuss the drama and give constructive opinions. If you don't have anything constructive to say, go look for a drama with actors you like and enjoy. Don't make others uncomfortable.
The "weak FL" tag is wrong. Please, fix it. So Hyang's character is not described that way at all. She's bubbly…
I think I read somewhere that she had some action scenes (as Seolhee). I think she will play a warrior princess. Seolhee sounds a lot like Aladdin's Jasmine (lives in a palace but escapes to see the world sort of character). Then she meets Oh Hyun, who seems to be a warrior/soldier, during one of her escapades.
There's a lot we don't know, but she's never described as weak.
The "weak FL" tag is wrong. Please, fix it. So Hyang's character is not described that way at all. She's bubbly but that doesn't mean she's weak (😪). If you watch the teaser, she takes advantage of Kokdu and enjoys having power over him. She's quite sassy too.
Kokdu: You’re too good at ordering people around. Gye Jeol: And you're a very good listener!
I'm laughing at Kim Jung Hyun's fans who want another actress. You don't have to watch at it. If you tell it's…
Why do you assume it's his fans who don't like her? We do like her (his real fans) and are very happy that they seem to be close. We have a good relationship with ISH's fandom too. The ones who don't like her are casuals that only want to hate. Go to her page and read what they say. Those people aren't part of our fandom 🤷♀️)
Also, I don’t know if what you're saying is the truth or not and I don't really care. The only thing I know is that his co-workers from Mr. Queen and Jealousy Incarnate are supporting him (Time director and MBC want to work with him again) and Shin Hye Sun's manager & agency have shown support too. Those are the ones who matter.
This drama looks really good and if the script is well written and the acting is solid enough, it will surprise more than one.
Kim Jung Hyun has won the KKing voting event again with more than 3 million votes 🔥!! We'll see his ad in Times Square this December. He's also one of the KKing king of kings nominees, so our fandom has a busy month ahead. 💪 You can join us on the app (the KKing) if you want to help. Congrats, everyone!! 👏
"After knowing that KJH was going on an independent path, we talked sincerely with him for a long time, and built trust with each other"
Imagine how much his ex agency has lied that the other agencies were all trying to sign him from the get go (when the "scandal" was HOT). The moment his contract with O& Ent ended, Story J contacted him. That doesn't happen if you're the kind of actor that betrays your agency & causes it harm. No agency would want an actor that represents a high risk for them.
"We will be a warm home to him" "an exclusive contract with Story J that can embrace him warmly"
I've noticed that his agency seems to really like him. Their welcome post is really warm and supportive. They even put his picture right next to kdrama legend Kim Tae Hee on their website & Youtube channel. I know a bit about marketing and graphic design, and that means something. It's a statement.
"We'd like to thank his fans, officials in the entertainment industry, and reporters who prayed for and worried about his recovery"
So, people from the industry are worried about him? Isn’t he the anti-Christ who mistreats others & destroys productions?
You can also add Shin Haesun manager's support message on Instagram, his new labelmate's, a previous co-worker from a short drama who posted a video of a scene with him the week he announced his comeback, a person from the staff of MQ who explained that he's still traumatized by physical contact to this day, but he's worked on getting over it (yes, he's TRAUMATIZED to the point he flinched when he and SHS accidentally touched before they became close. God knows what his ex did to him but he's still dealing with the trauma. Ugh.) photographers who worked with him & liked support messages on Instagram, an extra from Time who said he was extremely kind when they worked together (and even provided evidence to support their claim), the Time director & his assistants who expressed there were no hard feelings against him because Time PD was worried about JH all along & wants to work with him in a new drama in the future.
There's also the praise he's received in the past for being kind, respectful and supportive towards his co-workers (Sejeong, Jung Insun, Seo Jihye, Go Wonhee, Lee Yikyung. They all said good things about him and how he's behaved with them. Sejeong literally said "this is how kind he is" when he brought a present for her from abroad as they were super close - like brother and sister - on set & they remain close til this day despite her busy schedules) & let's not forget Jung In sun's statements after working with him: "Jung In Sun constantly praised KJH's human beauty throughout the interview. She explained that he always asked her things like 'How about this? Is this okay? Are you uncomfortable? Do you want to do this or not?' ... She also added 'I already knew that he was fascinating and I still remember the first time I saw him.' She said that she believes Kim Jung Hyun is going to be really big."
Once when he was doing Jealosuy incarnate he told in an interview he learnt to smile through his hardships rather…
Don't worry. There are a lot of people who support him. Even many K-nets who are watching his videos on Youtube and leaving comments saying he should come back because he's a brilliant actor. Once the "scandal" blows over (I give it a few more months) everything should start getting back on track and opportunities will appear again. There's still that drama the Time PD offered him too.
Good news!! KJH fandom (STARs) won the 1st place prize on TheKKing app (with 3,625,906 votes!), so the fandom will prepare a video about JH and also some pictures that will be displayed in Times Square for a week!! We've been working hard for this and we've finally achieved our goal. You can join us on Twitter #kimjunghyun and celebrate.
ok nevermind this happened in 2017, but I still want to know more about why he acted like this
He had a really good reputation before and after Time. He got tons of hate in 2018 because he didn't link arms with the female lead of the drama during the press conference. He apologized for affecting everyone and explained that he was suffering from depression and panic disorder, but the hate continued for years. He got so sick during the shooting of the drama that he lost weight and the extras were tweeting about how worried they were for him. They said he always looked like he was about to faint. A few episodes before the end of the drama he decided to leave because his doctor had diagnosed him with sleeping and eating disorders. He was on hiatus for almost 2 years and got treatment. When his agency was about to dump him, the PD of CLOY asked to meet him. His character in CLOY was one of the fan favourites, his image recovered considerably, and he became one of the most in-demand actors. He apologized for his past behavior during an interview and people gave him a second chance. Then came Mr Queen which positioned him as one of the stars of the moment, so there were a lot of agencies interested in signing him. He decided to change agencies, but his agency refused to let him go and accused him of a bunch of things. His agency gave Dispatch info on his romantic relationship with his CLOY co-worker (with pictures and all) and, as that didn't have a negative effect because people had loved the two of them together in CLOY, they released a statement accusing him of lying about his mental health. They said that he had dropped Time because of a girl. This created a huge scandal and he was accused of not wanting to make physical contact with the female lead of the drama or have romantic scenes. All the while he was still under contract and couldn't defend himself until he left his agency. To prove that they were telling the truth about his girl issues, his agency gave Dispatch some text messages his girlfriend at that time (Seo Yeji) sent him demanding that he remove all the skinship scenes between him and Seohyun (the female lead), in the texts she told him he couldn't even look at the female employees on set because "she was the only reason he was happy and he had to make her happy" This led to 2 positions: 1) He's a wuss who can't say no to his girlfriend and 2) his girlfriend was an abuser who took advantage of his weak mental health and made his life on set even harder than it originally was.
After a week, he published his health certificates and stated that his agency forced him to do Time even though he had already been diagnosed with GAD, serious anxiety, depression and panic disorder. He had asked his agency for a break to get treatment but they refused to listen and made him take another project. With that information psychiatrists explained that he shouldn't have been forced to work with that diagnosis because his state was extremely delicate and his emotions were all over the place (socializing in that state was basically impossible for him). Coupled with that his ex girlfriend was accused of several things like bullying, forgery of educational background, and even theft, but JH's past was clean (squeaky clean - he was chosen best classmate when he was at school and his family raised him with very strong values. There were people writing good things about him in the forums and saying that he was quite kind when they worked with him) so the media and his agency tried to keep the scandal of his toxic relationship alive for as long as they could. He got tons of hate again and had to be hospitalized again. Now every time his ex appears in an article for any of her many scandals his name is brought up and people start mocking him and wishing him horrible things because SK people don't believe that men can be victims of abuse. In JH's case it wasn't just the blatant abuse his agency committed against him, it was also the disgusting manipulation his girlfriend subjected him to. His entire family is in Busan, so both his agency and girlfriend were the only pillars he had in Seoul, but they BOTH took advantage of him instead of helping with his recovery.
Agency accused him of lying and said they were going to sue, but JH's brother showed up at the end of contract meetings (JH was at the hospital) and those pigs miraculously changed their mind and "settled their misunderstandings amicably" (AKA his family was going to sue the agency for everything they'd done to him). Now his agency went under and is being accused of embezzlement and God knows what other many things, but they got away with everything.
Imagine how traumatized KJH was after dating SYJ that a member from the Mr Queen staff mentioned when he and SHS met for the first time there was a moment when SHS accidentally touched him and he flinched. He's also mentioned in his interviews that he has fractured memories of what happened in the past (all signs of emotional trauma).
Slowly but surely his image is recovering because the Time PD offered him a role whenever he feels ready to return (the PD of the drama never disliked JH because he was genuinely concerned for his health), there are specialists who have explained that despite his mistakes, he's more of a victim of his greedy agency and abusive ex. After leaving the hospital he personally apologized to the people he had affected with his behaviour, and blamed himself for everything without making excuses.
Good news! His PR agency said that he's doing fine. He's receiving support from family and friends. Now he has to fully recover and come back whenever he feels ready. Let's be happy and wait patiently.
For some reason many people do not want to talk about mental health problems but have no problem revealing physical…
It's very hard to admit. Especially in his case because it's not just his mental health issues he had to discuss, it's also his past in an abusive relationship. He's a man and SK seems to think that he was "weak" and a "pushover" because he did what his ex ordered him to do. There's no way he'll feel comfortable admitting he let his girlfriend manipulate him because he wasn't in his right frame of mind. He knows he'll immediately become the target for cruel jokes, so he's chosen to blame everything on himself instead of bringing abuse to the table.
It's quite sad, really. Koreans singlehandedly silenced any male abuse victims who might have wanted to speak out because they told them they are weak pushovers who deserve the worst. Now abusers can do whatever they want knowing that their male victims won't speak. They will be too scared to.
Junghyun had so much dirt on 0&ent that they had to shut their trap in order to avoid a lawsuit. They were acting all corageous after he exposed how they abused him back then and ended up "amicably" settling to avoid a lawsuit they were definitely going to lose . Trashy agency which has been treating their actor as a machine and denied him his basic right to take care of his health should be grateful to KJH for settling peacefully. They treated him so horribly and even had the guts to lie about his mental health when everything was caused by their selfish and greedy management in the first place.
Don't say that mental disorders do not affect how you behave because that's BS. A few years back I got diagnosed with depression & panic disorder. I couldn't do anything because I was completely vulnerable and hypersensitive. I quit my job and dropped my studies. I shut every single one of my friends out and left my boyfriend. I was so angry with myself that my anger kept pouring out from my pores. I was a ticking bomb and every time people tried to interact with me I'd leave or avoid being seen. If someone critized me to help me get better, I'd lash out and say something hurtful. The whole situation was insanely difficult to handle, so I ended up locking myself into my bedroom in order to avoid hurting others. I wasn't really angry at them, but I couldn't handle the person I was becoming, so I was extremely frustrated and desperate. The good thing is that I had a family who was willing to help me instead of a greedy agency forcing me to deal with my episodes and mood swings on my own. I had the chance to stay in my house as opposed to getting forced to show up at a set full of people who I knew were judging me for my behaviour. I had friends who knew the real me and chose to support me and waited until I got better instead of people who barely knew me or didn't know me at all. Do you see the difference? Junghyun refused to do "Time" because he realized he wasn't capable of dealing with the pressure and the social interactions. He knew that he wasn't at his best moment but was FORCED to ignore everything he was feeling and suck it up. He was put through hell and he still managed to work until he received a doctor's order that gave him the freedom he needed to get help and take care of himself (something he had been denied by the evil people who were "protecting" him). Imagine that you ask for help because you're suicidal and you're told to suck it up. That's what happened to him. People who say that mental health is not an "excuse" are right but they fail to notice that mental health is a reality that puts people at a disavantage. Everything is far more difficult when you're not in control of your emotions. You lose your self-esteem and become someone who resents the world because all those negative feelings that are hurting you can't be handled properly by your overloaded mind. Every person handles their condition differently. Some people do it in a better way (Congrats to you!) but expecting everyone to have the same ability is ludicrous. Don't blame other mentally ill people for not achieving the same result.
I truly hope the people who diregarded his mental health, and forced on him this very traumatic experience that affected so many others, rot in hell forever. I hope JH made them pay through their noses for the pain they've put him through repeatedly. All of his fandom noticed that his depression was really serious when he started tweeting sad things back in 2017. Everyone could see it but his agency chose to close his instagram account instead of getting him the help he needed. That's unforgivable and should be punished severely, but alas...many people focused on whether a very emotionally unstable actor refused to do romance or touch his co-worker instead of focusing on how his agency treated him with complete lack of humanity.
KJH never present himself as being abused by SYJ, what we have for sure is one actor who was so unprofessional…
A peanut-sized brain like yours will never understand that his fans are far more worried about keeping the hate to the minimum to preserve his mental health. He's suicidal and we're terrified that he'll end his life.
As I mentioned before, Seo Yeji's issues are Seo Yeji's issues. The smallest of her scandals is what happened with Kim Jung Hyun. Blame her for being a bully, for tanking a movie by slandering an innocent PD or for being a pathological liar. Or do you want Kim Jung Hyun to write her letters of apology too?
Get out of here. We're not interested in engaging these immature arguments.
SYJ fans, get out of this comment section. If your fave is getting bashed in S. Korea because she has a lot of dirt under the rug, it's her fault and KJH has nothing to do with her downfall. Did he bully his classmates? Did he lie about a PD he worked with? Did he lie about a degree in Spain? NO... those are her issues. I'm pretty sure reporters are going over Kim Jung Hyun's life desperately looking for more dirt, but she's the one who actually provided the material. Go complain against the reporters, the people who accused her...whoever you want. Kim Jung Hyun owned up to his mistake and didn't even mention her. I think she's a really bad memory he wants to forget.
Same with Kim Jung Hyun and the rest of the cast. There are several actors with huge fanbases whose acting I don't like and I don't go to their dramas comment sections to insult or criticize them because I realize it will create friction and unnecessary drama. Same here. This comment section exists so we can discuss the drama and give constructive opinions. If you don't have anything constructive to say, go look for a drama with actors you like and enjoy. Don't make others uncomfortable.
There's a lot we don't know, but she's never described as weak.
Kokdu: You’re too good at ordering people around.
Gye Jeol: And you're a very good listener!
Don't want to spoil, so I'll continue below.
Also, I don’t know if what you're saying is the truth or not and I don't really care. The only thing I know is that his co-workers from Mr. Queen and Jealousy Incarnate are supporting him (Time director and MBC want to work with him again) and Shin Hye Sun's manager & agency have shown support too. Those are the ones who matter.
This drama looks really good and if the script is well written and the acting is solid enough, it will surprise more than one.
Imagine how much his ex agency has lied that the other agencies were all trying to sign him from the get go (when the "scandal" was HOT). The moment his contract with O& Ent ended, Story J contacted him. That doesn't happen if you're the kind of actor that betrays your agency & causes it harm. No agency would want an actor that represents a high risk for them.
"We will be a warm home to him" "an exclusive contract with Story J that can embrace him warmly"
I've noticed that his agency seems to really like him. Their welcome post is really warm and supportive. They even put his picture right next to kdrama legend Kim Tae Hee on their website & Youtube channel. I know a bit about marketing and graphic design, and that means something. It's a statement.
"We'd like to thank his fans, officials in the entertainment industry, and reporters who prayed for and worried about his recovery"
So, people from the industry are worried about him? Isn’t he the anti-Christ who mistreats others & destroys productions?
You can also add Shin Haesun manager's support message on Instagram, his new labelmate's, a previous co-worker from a short drama who posted a video of a scene with him the week he announced his comeback, a person from the staff of MQ who explained that he's still traumatized by physical contact to this day, but he's worked on getting over it (yes, he's TRAUMATIZED to the point he flinched when he and SHS accidentally touched before they became close. God knows what his ex did to him but he's still dealing with the trauma. Ugh.) photographers who worked with him & liked support messages on Instagram, an extra from Time who said he was extremely kind when they worked together (and even provided evidence to support their claim), the Time director & his assistants who expressed there were no hard feelings against him because Time PD was worried about JH all along & wants to work with him in a new drama in the future.
There's also the praise he's received in the past for being kind, respectful and supportive towards his co-workers (Sejeong, Jung Insun, Seo Jihye, Go Wonhee, Lee Yikyung. They all said good things about him and how he's behaved with them. Sejeong literally said "this is how kind he is" when he brought a present for her from abroad as they were super close - like brother and sister - on set & they remain close til this day despite her busy schedules) & let's not forget Jung In sun's statements after working with him: "Jung In Sun constantly praised KJH's human beauty throughout the interview. She explained that he always asked her things like 'How about this? Is this okay? Are you uncomfortable? Do you want to do this or not?' ... She also added 'I already knew that he was fascinating and I still remember the first time I saw him.' She said that she believes Kim Jung Hyun is going to be really big."
KJH fandom (STARs) won the 1st place prize on TheKKing app (with 3,625,906 votes!), so the fandom will prepare a video about JH and also some pictures that will be displayed in Times Square for a week!! We've been working hard for this and we've finally achieved our goal. You can join us on Twitter #kimjunghyun and celebrate.
After a week, he published his health certificates and stated that his agency forced him to do Time even though he had already been diagnosed with GAD, serious anxiety, depression and panic disorder. He had asked his agency for a break to get treatment but they refused to listen and made him take another project. With that information psychiatrists explained that he shouldn't have been forced to work with that diagnosis because his state was extremely delicate and his emotions were all over the place (socializing in that state was basically impossible for him). Coupled with that his ex girlfriend was accused of several things like bullying, forgery of educational background, and even theft, but JH's past was clean (squeaky clean - he was chosen best classmate when he was at school and his family raised him with very strong values. There were people writing good things about him in the forums and saying that he was quite kind when they worked with him) so the media and his agency tried to keep the scandal of his toxic relationship alive for as long as they could. He got tons of hate again and had to be hospitalized again. Now every time his ex appears in an article for any of her many scandals his name is brought up and people start mocking him and wishing him horrible things because SK people don't believe that men can be victims of abuse. In JH's case it wasn't just the blatant abuse his agency committed against him, it was also the disgusting manipulation his girlfriend subjected him to. His entire family is in Busan, so both his agency and girlfriend were the only pillars he had in Seoul, but they BOTH took advantage of him instead of helping with his recovery.
Agency accused him of lying and said they were going to sue, but JH's brother showed up at the end of contract meetings (JH was at the hospital) and those pigs miraculously changed their mind and "settled their misunderstandings amicably" (AKA his family was going to sue the agency for everything they'd done to him). Now his agency went under and is being accused of embezzlement and God knows what other many things, but they got away with everything.
Imagine how traumatized KJH was after dating SYJ that a member from the Mr Queen staff mentioned when he and SHS met for the first time there was a moment when SHS accidentally touched him and he flinched. He's also mentioned in his interviews that he has fractured memories of what happened in the past (all signs of emotional trauma).
Slowly but surely his image is recovering because the Time PD offered him a role whenever he feels ready to return (the PD of the drama never disliked JH because he was genuinely concerned for his health), there are specialists who have explained that despite his mistakes, he's more of a victim of his greedy agency and abusive ex. After leaving the hospital he personally apologized to the people he had affected with his behaviour, and blamed himself for everything without making excuses.
It's quite sad, really. Koreans singlehandedly silenced any male abuse victims who might have wanted to speak out because they told them they are weak pushovers who deserve the worst. Now abusers can do whatever they want knowing that their male victims won't speak. They will be too scared to.
Don't say that mental disorders do not affect how you behave because that's BS. A few years back I got diagnosed with depression & panic disorder. I couldn't do anything because I was completely vulnerable and hypersensitive. I quit my job and dropped my studies. I shut every single one of my friends out and left my boyfriend. I was so angry with myself that my anger kept pouring out from my pores. I was a ticking bomb and every time people tried to interact with me I'd leave or avoid being seen. If someone critized me to help me get better, I'd lash out and say something hurtful. The whole situation was insanely difficult to handle, so I ended up locking myself into my bedroom in order to avoid hurting others. I wasn't really angry at them, but I couldn't handle the person I was becoming, so I was extremely frustrated and desperate. The good thing is that I had a family who was willing to help me instead of a greedy agency forcing me to deal with my episodes and mood swings on my own. I had the chance to stay in my house as opposed to getting forced to show up at a set full of people who I knew were judging me for my behaviour. I had friends who knew the real me and chose to support me and waited until I got better instead of people who barely knew me or didn't know me at all. Do you see the difference? Junghyun refused to do "Time" because he realized he wasn't capable of dealing with the pressure and the social interactions. He knew that he wasn't at his best moment but was FORCED to ignore everything he was feeling and suck it up. He was put through hell and he still managed to work until he received a doctor's order that gave him the freedom he needed to get help and take care of himself (something he had been denied by the evil people who were "protecting" him). Imagine that you ask for help because you're suicidal and you're told to suck it up. That's what happened to him.
People who say that mental health is not an "excuse" are right but they fail to notice that mental health is a reality that puts people at a disavantage. Everything is far more difficult when you're not in control of your emotions. You lose your self-esteem and become someone who resents the world because all those negative feelings that are hurting you can't be handled properly by your overloaded mind.
Every person handles their condition differently. Some people do it in a better way (Congrats to you!) but expecting everyone to have the same ability is ludicrous. Don't blame other mentally ill people for not achieving the same result.
I truly hope the people who diregarded his mental health, and forced on him this very traumatic experience that affected so many others, rot in hell forever. I hope JH made them pay through their noses for the pain they've put him through repeatedly. All of his fandom noticed that his depression was really serious when he started tweeting sad things back in 2017. Everyone could see it but his agency chose to close his instagram account instead of getting him the help he needed. That's unforgivable and should be punished severely, but alas...many people focused on whether a very emotionally unstable actor refused to do romance or touch his co-worker instead of focusing on how his agency treated him with complete lack of humanity.
As I mentioned before, Seo Yeji's issues are Seo Yeji's issues. The smallest of her scandals is what happened with Kim Jung Hyun. Blame her for being a bully, for tanking a movie by slandering an innocent PD or for being a pathological liar. Or do you want Kim Jung Hyun to write her letters of apology too?
Get out of here. We're not interested in engaging these immature arguments.