After denying that she manipulated former boyfriend, actor Kim Jung-hyun, “It’s Okay to Not be Okay” star Seo Ye-ji is facing backlash from manufacturers that she has endorsed as different issues continue to hound her such as suspicions on her educational background, mistreatment of workers and faculty violence.
Companies of a number of merchandise that Seo Ye-ji has endorsed together with a well being care complement, face masks, cosmetics and eyewear have both deleted her advert pictures or turned YouTube movies that includes her to non-public.
Korean media reported that due to the controversies, Seo Ye-ji is in peril of paying enormous penalties to companies which employed her as endorser of their merchandise. Endorsement contracts together with these with celebrities normally have a morality clause, which imposes penalties in the event that they become involved in controversies or scandals that have an effect on the model’s picture.
Seo Ye-ji has been within the highlight since Korean media outlet Dispatch printed a information story on April 12, accusing her of manipulating then boyfriend Kim Jung-hyun when he was filming the TV drama “Time” in 2018.
The report included Seo Ye-ji and Kim Jung-hyun’s change of messages on KakaoTalk, a cellular messaging app, by which she ordered him not to movie any “skinship” or bodily contact scenes with co-star Seohyun, not to greet feminine workers and for him to change the script so there can be no romantic scenes or skinship.
She additionally ordered Kim Jung-hyun to take movies and audio recordings throughout filming and ship them to her. The information report added that when Kim Jung-hyun acquired a script, he would ask for revisions and ship it to Seo Ye-ji.
In one of many textual content message exchanges, Kim Jung-hyun advised Seo Ye-ji, “I preserve studying the script. I’m not doing the rest.” She advised him, “Correct it nicely so there isn’t a romance. You are pleased due to me. So make me happier.” It added that from episodes 5 to 12 of “Time,” the script had 13 skinship scenes however none of them made it to the airing.
Through her company Goldmedalist, Seo Ye-ji issued a press release denying that she manipulated him and that she had a hand in altering the script of “Time,” and dumped the blame on Kim Jung-hyun, saying he did these issues together with his “personal free will.”
She admitted that she and Kim Jung-hyun had been lovers on the time and dismissed the KakaoTalk messages and accusations of manipulation as mere “lovers’ quarrel.”
In the identical assertion, Seo Ye-ji denied accusations that she lied about her educational background.
When she turned a visitor on the TV program “Knowing Bros” in March 2017, she stated she went to Spain to examine and lived there for 3 and a half years.
Cast member Seo Jang-hoon requested her, “Did you go to faculty there?” to which she replied, “Yeah.”
Goldmedalist defined that Seo Ye-ji had “ready for admission to Complutense University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain however she was not in a position to attend faculty usually as she started her profession in Korea. Also, we want to say that the extra allegations of college violence usually are not true in any respect.”
In one other controversy, a netizen who stated she was a workers member who beforehand labored with Seo Ye-ji narrated that the actress mistreated workers at Goldmedalist.
“As a workers member going round in the identical automotive with her for a number of years, verbal abuse was nothing. She smoked within the automotive, so I suffered from secondhand smoke. Also, she made me purchase cigarettes and would scold me for a small mistake whereas blowing smoke in my face,” the netizen claimed, the Korea Herald reported.
Goldmedalist was arrange by actor Kim Soo-hyun when he left KeyEast in 2019 and recruited Seo Ye-ji. Kim Soo-hyun and Seo Ye-ji starred in final 12 months’s “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay,” a drama by which Goldmedalist served as a manufacturing firm.
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