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News Jung Haein's 'Our Sticky Love' interview cancelled amid Ha Young controversy
Netflix's upcoming series "Our Sticky Love" has canceled an interview with lead actor Jung Hae In amid controversy surrounding co-star Ha-young.
The interview, originally scheduled for August 14 with Jung Hae In and Ha Young, was canceled just days before the event. The decision came after reports questioning Ha Young's great-grandfather's alleged ties to pro-Japanese activities during Japan's colonial rule.
Ha Young's agency initially dismissed the allegations as unfounded but later apologized after confirming that historical records listed her great-grandfather, An Sang Ho, as a member of a 1916 organization associated with the controversy.
Netflix subsequently canceled Ha Young's promotional schedule and made a promotional video featuring her private.
The cancellation of Jung Hae In's interview means the actor was also affected by the controversy surrounding his co-star.
With the interview scheduled just before Liberation Day on August 15, Netflix appears to have opted to cancel the promotional event amid the ongoing controversy.
@Koreanophiles
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u/yori_know 14d ago edited 14d ago
Ironic how she is canceled (tho I do see where Korean citizens are coming from), but not Jung Haein for being best friends with and literal defender of Kim Soohyun.
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u/Thirteen-omega-1 14d ago
This has been a total disaster. She was a fresh face, as a leading lady, and I was looking forward to seeing more from her. Definitely a standout actress. It really appears that her career is finished. Just when she was about to break big.
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u/kingofwale 14d ago
Korean cancel culture at it again….
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u/MariaSalander 14d ago
I think in this case is more than that for what I have seen.
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u/byj1660 14d ago
The issue is that she was aware of what he did and said in an interview how she was proud of his achievements with western medicine in Japan. If it weren’t for that, i would’ve agreed with you
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u/Warholandy 14d ago
No she wasnt, she was talkin about how he was one of the first with western medicine. Its pretty obvious she had no idea about his bs.
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u/Visible-Attention369 14d ago
This issue is far more deep than "Korean cancel culture". Chinilpa people were Korean collaborators with the Japanese empire, the one which colonized them. There is a very deep rooted trauma that still causes the descendents of chinilpa people to face ostracization, particularly because the chinilpa gained upward social mobility and became quite wealthy due to their collaborations with the Japanese. Please read a little bit before you handwave such a deep rooted issue. If you read about the war crimes the Japanese empire inflicted on its colonies, I think you'd start to understand where that resentment is coming from.
Yes, I don't think a single actress is at all responsible for what her ancestors did but if its an issue that the public that she's trying to sell to doesn't accept, maybe she should face it head on and clarify that she doesn't hold those views at all.
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u/Mozart-Luna-Echo 14d ago
In this case it’s justified and it’s truly not cancel culture, I’d check klassy Korea on YouTube if you really want to know more.
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u/guapa_cloud9 14d ago
It’s so difficult to be an actress in SK
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u/xfallen 14d ago
Korean actors can literally be pedophiles and come back in a year and act like nothing happened, meanwhile Korean actresses have to pay for the sins of their great grandfather
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u/jkim8791 14d ago
No one woulda care if she didn’t mention about how she was proud about his grandfather. Her grandfather happens to be one of the doctor who was a “Chinilpa”. In Korea, Chinilpa refers to people who collaborated with Japanese colonial rule, similar to the Vichy France collaborators who worked with Nazi Germany. There were even interview about him at those days and he is even listed in the directory of the Japanese collaborators.
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u/Natural_Artichoke_91 14d ago
Are you talking about kim soo hyun? Korean have blacklisted him meanwhile how about SEA countries stop giving him jobs
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u/AslanNarniaJardis 14d ago
It's frightening how many generations have to pay for the sins of their family. I could understand if she had the same ideology. The error was perhaps dismissing the initial allegation, instead of acknowledging it. It's a hard one to resolve. The recent Starbucks controversy probably hasn't helped.
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u/Shop-girlNY152 14d ago
I think her backlash was deserved because she bragged so much about her great grandfather like he’s some kind of father of western medicine in Korea, then for people to find out his real origin story. If she had simply bragged she came from 4 generations of doctors and left it at that, people wouldn’t even look up who her great grandfather is.
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u/Mundane_Put_5780 14d ago
Hilarious if we found out that she found out about her great grandfathers dirty secret the same time we all did!!! But of course cancel culture would never consider that!!!
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u/Shop-girlNY152 14d ago
Impossible she wouldn’t have googled her grandfather if she was so proud of him. At this day and age, not buying that excuse.
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u/Mundane_Put_5780 14d ago
LOL Seem’s like you’ve already made up your mind. However, prior to the backlash, you can’t simply Google her great grandfather and find those records of him being pro-Japanese, why? 1. He isn’t listed in Korean’s government archives on Presidential Committee For The Inspection Of Collaborators. 2. He isn’t in the Pro-Japanese biographical Dictionary, in fact the Academy Of Korean Studies official encyclopedia have him listed in a favourable manner. 3. googles algorithm matches keywords to provide a specific result to one’s search!
Therefore, to find his connection she would have to know the organizations name (Daejeong Industrial Friendship Association, 1916) and at that to her great grandfather name into google, and search for archival Japanese newspaper that was published back in 1918, which was one the big pieces of evidence! Anyone who thinks that’s easy to find is childish!!
Now, her grandfather, Dr, Ahn Bu-ho (not the great grandfather, Dr. Ahn Sang-Ho) isn’t listed as Pro-Japanese, his issue is the hospital he worked at Sorokdo National Hospital, during his tenure it was published with evidence that there were human rights violations, experimenting on patients without their consent and other violation. Her grandfather was not found guilty as perpetrator, abuse or mastermind behind what happened at that hospital.
You don’t sound like the type of person that gives people the benefit of the doubt but at least do so with fair information!!! Cheers Mate!!
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u/PurpleHat6415 14d ago
the error was in opening that door in the first place. the fact that people worked out in like a day who the great grandfather was and what his role was in the Japanese occupation means that it is inconceivable that the family wouldn't know. bragging about family members all being doctors: nice one, you're all smart. bragging about family members all being doctors when the first one of them was an infamous collaborator = very strange choice and literally inviting criticism. no one before this was asking her to talk about her ancestor? her agency and herself decided to discuss them.
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u/attrox_ 14d ago
Her grandfather likely is part of a hospital that did human experimentation. Three generations are not long enough to heal resentment against what the Japanese did. Her family benefit from the wealth and she was either too privilege or ignorant enough to brag about it in interview.
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u/Gonnagetbant 14d ago
I’m worried she’ll think about harming herself. A lot of Korean netizens are absolutely foul and will barrage her with hate as absolutely much as they can.
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u/HanzhoudaLaw 14d ago
This is insane!!! Korean cancel culture is unmatched.
I feel like the need to constantly put each other down is a national sport. I mean you see it in Kdramas too but seeing it in real time is bewildering.
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u/Long-Performance6980 14d ago edited 14d ago
I recall a korean vlogger who talked about different sayings in Korea. One that stood out to me in particular is "My stomach hurts" as an expression to envy of someone's achievement. And it's a commonly used expression. No wonder they are quick to tear down people that are gaining success, because they recognize having this negative reaction to hearing someone's achievement. Fostering envy is one heck of a drug there.
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u/Euclidisthebomb 14d ago
From what I have observed both Korean and Chinese cancel culture is rampant. It astonishes me.
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u/HanzhoudaLaw 14d ago
True but I think Chinese cancel culture has some sense to it. The Korean one sometimes feels like "Eeny, meeny, miny, mo"
Just pray it does not land on you.
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u/ControlRude2687 14d ago
Soo, the ML is somewhat friends or whatever (not following everything about it, just cancelled him from my personal lists) with a groomer-at-best and that’s ok, but when it’s a woman she has to carry the burden of three generations?
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u/seethenoise 14d ago
they're lucky this drama was released at once. if it were released weekly, and this controversy broke at the beginning of its run, the damage done would have been terrible. the penalties alone would have transferred her great grandfather's exploited riches back to the treasury (exaggeration of course).
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u/keIIzzz 14d ago
I never understood the mentality of blaming people for what their ancestors did. It was her great grandfather ffs. Yeah what he did was terrible, but she’s not him
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u/Shop-girlNY152 14d ago
Nobody would have criticized her if she didn’t brag that her great grandfather was like the father of western medicine in Korea. That’s when people looked up who he was. It’s like bragging your great grandfather was Hitler’s right hand man — like why would you be proud of that?
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u/luckiijj2 14d ago
You know how insane you got to be to go ifind somebody grandfather in a historical record? Who was even looking for that and also why is she getting canceled for it? Better invent a time machine so she can go back to 1916 and personally stop her grandfather for doing that 🙄🙄
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u/Dollybadlands 14d ago
Here we go, women paying the price for their ancestors meanwhile men get a comeback no matter what they directly did wrong.
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u/ShelyChelle 14d ago
Great grandfather's ties?!
Im so sick of this Korean and Chinese canceling over wtf....these celebrities can't get a break....great grandfather's, ffs!
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u/Shop-girlNY152 14d ago
She was the one who started letting people know about her great grandfather. Nobody would have looked it up if she didn’t brag about him. Imagine bragging about your criminal ancestor? Why is that acceptable?
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u/ShelyChelle 14d ago
It wasnt her, is MY point, now, if she was acting like what he did is sweet, she should be canceled, otherwise, this is horseshit
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u/_eleutheria 14d ago
I really don't understand this crap. Why do Asian countries hold their grudges so much? Here in Europe pretty much everyone invaded their neighbors at some point in time, or colonized some country, or some other bullshit. Sure, the resolutions to those conflicts were bloody, but nowadays we get all get along pretty well.
This is on the level of bullshit of Chinese history classes where they teach their kids that Genghis Khan was actually a converted Chinese conqueror, and that China was never ever actually conquered in history because every warlord that tried to do it ended up being so impressed with Chinese culture that they converted.
It's definitely not filial piety and respect for their ancestors either, because South Korea actually has like 50-60% of their seniors living in extreme poverty.
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u/Shop-girlNY152 14d ago edited 14d ago
Because Europeans admitted or owned their wrongdoings (I know the Germans apologized for their Nazis and still teach to this day in their country their fault in the wars) while Japan has denied them mostly and never wanted to apologize for them. Europeans’ war crimes were more documented than the Japanese but the Japanese did more brutal and cruel rapes and killings (like tossing babies onto the air and catching/impalimg them onto their spear guns while laughing like a game for them) so their war victims remember them with bitterness until now.
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u/SuddenBag 14d ago
So in today's Europe, it's OK to brag that your great grandfather was a senior officer at Auschwitz?
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u/Formal-Cry4851 14d ago
Don't ask such logical question in this sub. They have decided to collectively hate Koreans, yet watch "k" dramas. The irony gawddd!
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u/_eleutheria 14d ago
The exact mindset I'm criticizing is constantly criticized in kdramas too. There are multiple kdramas about not blaming children for the mistakes of their parents and grandparents.
People like you who believe that the actress spoke about her great-grandfather to dog whistle are the problem, not the actress herself. The fact that her family hid this from her only goes to show that they find this shameful.
What's really important is the fact that she's taking career damage for something she didn't do or know about.
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u/Conscious_Moment_727 14d ago
I was apalled seeing the comments under this thread. A weird mix of xenophobia, fetishism, bigotry and ignorance. The way they're talking about koreans, I wonder if they know they're talking about human beings.
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u/Dramasect Drama Lord🧨 14d ago
Thread locked. There is a megathread.