This isn't against Park Sung Hoon. The man is a human, and what was most likely a private "joke" accidentally spilled online. Perhaps, and most likely, he is a good man.
However, what is so crazy is the logic of the people condoning it. With pride, saying everyone having an issue with it are "woke-people", "whiny cretins" and we should "respectively STFU."
And, before anything, these are some of the reasons as to why he is supposedly as innocent as anyone can be, and we should all understand and excuse this and just smile and continue praising Park Sung Hoon!!
Well, these are the reasoning, I've seen so far:
1. As stated above: it was just an accident, so of course, he ain't at fault. Of course, a grown man posting a gross-ass NSFW thing online accidentally, instead of privately but to a wider audience, should totally be excused!! Poor guy, we are "vilifying" him just for fun. He is not accountable for his own actions at all! How old was he again?!!
2. How do we know he even watched it? The man found it funny or at least entertaining enough to possess it. And from the pic of it that he shared, it looks like female contestants are getting the D from behind from the guards. Given the relationship between the guards and contestants on the show, it still didn't register anything to him. But, we should all be open-minded, the tone deafness on his part should still be excused. We are just making this a big deal.
3. Its just porn, grow up everybody watches porn. Yes, everybody watches porn, I agree. But not everybody watches porn where women are killed after the act, and not every porn video shows women being outright assaulted. So yes, anybody who watches porn knows that even porn has different categories. And while it's all acting, a grown man watching this specific type of porn is concerning if nothing else. And yes I am saying if he posted perhaps a different type of porn, something not this abhorrent the outrage wouldn't have been as bad.
4. It was only a joke!! He just wanted to tell a close associate that 'look what my drama has been turned into'. If he thought this was worth a joke, truly shame on him.
And after everything, given South Korea's reputation of rape, assault, pornography, child pornography, and sex chat rooms being treated wayyyy more lightly than dealing with weed; the existing patriarchal and prevalent misogyny, him himself portraying a nuanced role, this is truly utterly shameful and even heartbreaking on Park Sung Hoon's part.
He is a good actor, and already several shitty people on this show are still having full-fledged outstanding careers, even after committing literally horrible crimes, so I don't actually think this incident will affect his career in the long run. It shouldn't. I hope too, it doesn't.
But the people defending him and calling names to anyone bringing up this issue would probably benefit from some soul-searching.
Watching Squid Game and complaining about "woke"-ness is either 1. some crazy, intense level of hypocrisy or 2. ironically being too far from intelligence or 3. deliberately and obtusely missing the whole point of the show!!
Wow, what a way to throw away your current gaining fame and fandom!! Not saying watching porn is some cardinal sin or something, but come on!! Posting porn where women are getting treated like shit while parodying Squid Games!! Seriously?!!! And given how the whole point of your character was to being treated with respect as a trans-person and not being objectified and mocked!!!
This Park Sunghoon issue, damn! And I was just starting to appreciate him as an actor. But we move! Still looking…
I think it also has to do with what type of porn it was. Like I am not a 100% sure, but it was some sort of parody of Squid Games where women were supposedly getting assaulted or something. But don't quote me on it.
Him getting scared at the cinema, while she was unaffected was another one. Then I though the walking in the yellow autumn leaves towards the end was very familiar
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However, what is so crazy is the logic of the people condoning it. With pride, saying everyone having an issue with it are "woke-people", "whiny cretins" and we should "respectively STFU."
And, before anything, these are some of the reasons as to why he is supposedly as innocent as anyone can be, and we should all understand and excuse this and just smile and continue praising Park Sung Hoon!!
Well, these are the reasoning, I've seen so far:
1. As stated above: it was just an accident, so of course, he ain't at fault.
Of course, a grown man posting a gross-ass NSFW thing online accidentally, instead of privately but to a wider audience, should totally be excused!! Poor guy, we are "vilifying" him just for fun. He is not accountable for his own actions at all! How old was he again?!!
2. How do we know he even watched it?
The man found it funny or at least entertaining enough to possess it. And from the pic of it that he shared, it looks like female contestants are getting the D from behind from the guards. Given the relationship between the guards and contestants on the show, it still didn't register anything to him. But, we should all be open-minded, the tone deafness on his part should still be excused. We are just making this a big deal.
3. Its just porn, grow up everybody watches porn.
Yes, everybody watches porn, I agree. But not everybody watches porn where women are killed after the act, and not every porn video shows women being outright assaulted. So yes, anybody who watches porn knows that even porn has different categories. And while it's all acting, a grown man watching this specific type of porn is concerning if nothing else. And yes I am saying if he posted perhaps a different type of porn, something not this abhorrent the outrage wouldn't have been as bad.
4. It was only a joke!! He just wanted to tell a close associate that 'look what my drama has been turned into'.
If he thought this was worth a joke, truly shame on him.
And after everything, given South Korea's reputation of rape, assault, pornography, child pornography, and sex chat rooms being treated wayyyy more lightly than dealing with weed; the existing patriarchal and prevalent misogyny, him himself portraying a nuanced role, this is truly utterly shameful and even heartbreaking on Park Sung Hoon's part.
He is a good actor, and already several shitty people on this show are still having full-fledged outstanding careers, even after committing literally horrible crimes, so I don't actually think this incident will affect his career in the long run. It shouldn't. I hope too, it doesn't.
But the people defending him and calling names to anyone bringing up this issue would probably benefit from some soul-searching.
1. some crazy, intense level of hypocrisy or
2. ironically being too far from intelligence or
3. deliberately and obtusely missing the whole point of the show!!
And here I was starting to really admire him.