An alleged staffer that used to work with the actress posted on a web-based portal early Wednesday morning that Seo had recurrently mistreated her employees members in her company, Gold Medalist.
“As a employees member going round in the identical automobile together with her for a number of years, verbal abuse was nothing. She smoked within the automobile, 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 put up learn.
Seo was accused of recurrently checking the staffer’s telephone and making threats, amongst different abusive conduct towards the worker.
The revelation is the newest in a string of controversies surrounding the actor.
Local media outlet Dispatch revealed Sunday that Seo, identified for her lead position within the TV drama “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay,” had reportedly “managed” her former boyfriend and actor Kim Jung-hyun when he was taking pictures the sequence “Time” with Seohyun in 2018.
Dispatch revealed alleged textual content messages between the previous couple that claimed that Seo requested Kim haven’t any bodily contact with feminine actors within the drama, regardless of the romantic plot line.
Kim was mentioned to have made positive he prevented bodily contact with Seohyun whereas filming, and he ultimately stepped down from his lead position halfway by manufacturing, citing well being considerations.
In an official assertion, Gold Medalist admitted that the 2 had dated, however denied that Seo was the explanation for Kim leaving the drama manufacturing.
“It is tough to understand {that a} lead position actor acts with out his will as a result of somebody instructed him to,” the company mentioned.
Regarding claims that Seo ordered Kim to avoid intimate scenes, the company mentioned, “These kinds of disputes over being affectionate are frequent amongst actor {couples}. But all actors go into taking pictures with out regard for it. Kim Jung-hyun will need to have had a distinct private difficulty.”
The company additionally denied allegations that Seo was a bully in class and that she had solid her instructional background. The company mentioned within the assertion that she had been accepted to a school in Madrid, however didn’t comply with by together with her diploma as a result of she began performing.
Seo didn’t attend the press convention Tuesday for the film “Recalled,” wherein she performs the lead feminine position, set to hit theaters subsequent week.
By Lim Jang-won ([email protected])
