Many people want a career as a celebrity, but getting into the entertainment world is not easy. In addition must have talent, charming face, and luck; sometimes someone willing to do anything to have a career opportunity as an artist, including willing to get sexual harassment.
Just to remind, actress Boys Over Flowers, Jang Ja Yeon, decided to end his life by suicide in 2009 for not stand the sexual coercion it receives. In a letter he wrote before his death, the late wrote down the names involved in coercing him.
The painful story of Jang Ja Yeon was briefly discussed in the Heard It Through The Grapevine show on Channel A on Monday (1/1). One of the guest stars in the episode is Yoo So Young, a former After School girl group member who is now an actress.
Reported from Kpop Herald, Yoo So Young discuss sexual coercion in the Korean entertainment world. The 31-year-old lady of the story while still a trainee (not yet an artist debut, still in training), she was offered help to debut immediately by a major entertainment agency. But the condition is that he must meet with the agency representative.
"They told me to come to the bar at 9 pm I called and said that it would not be good for me to meet them there, and then he shouted: 'Do not you think you can get into the entertainment world, there are still many who want to do it,'" Yoo So Young.
Yoo So Young was then feeling grateful for having refused, because he then got word about the person who forced it. "A few moments later, the man was fired for several times doing the same (doing the same sexual harassment)," said the star of the drama Miss Panda and Mr. Hedgehog. (kapanlagi.com)
Just to remind, actress Boys Over Flowers, Jang Ja Yeon, decided to end his life by suicide in 2009 for not stand the sexual coercion it receives. In a letter he wrote before his death, the late wrote down the names involved in coercing him.
The painful story of Jang Ja Yeon was briefly discussed in the Heard It Through The Grapevine show on Channel A on Monday (1/1). One of the guest stars in the episode is Yoo So Young, a former After School girl group member who is now an actress.
Reported from Kpop Herald, Yoo So Young discuss sexual coercion in the Korean entertainment world. The 31-year-old lady of the story while still a trainee (not yet an artist debut, still in training), she was offered help to debut immediately by a major entertainment agency. But the condition is that he must meet with the agency representative.
"They told me to come to the bar at 9 pm I called and said that it would not be good for me to meet them there, and then he shouted: 'Do not you think you can get into the entertainment world, there are still many who want to do it,'" Yoo So Young.
Yoo So Young was then feeling grateful for having refused, because he then got word about the person who forced it. "A few moments later, the man was fired for several times doing the same (doing the same sexual harassment)," said the star of the drama Miss Panda and Mr. Hedgehog. (kapanlagi.com)
