Korean Wave Star Takes Love Affair Rumor to Court
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Korean Wave star Lee Byung-hun has decided to take legal steps over rumors of a love affair reported by a Japanese magazine. The star's agency Fantom Entertainment is up in arms over a report in the women's magazine Josei Seven that says the actor was seen with a 30-something Japanese woman and the two went on a romantic trip to Seoul and Taiwan.
The magazine, picking up on Lee's next movie "A Summer Story", titled the report "Another Summer Story". It said the woman the actor is seeing used to be a flight attendant, and the two met at a party in Tokyo a few months ago.
Fantom says the report is "100 percent fictitious". The agency put up a notice at Byeong-heon's Japanese homepage and immediately hired a Japanese lawyer after reading the report. "At first our plan was to ignore it and move on, but after the magazine came out, we received a lot of inquiries from Japan, so we decided it wasn't an issue we could just leave alone", a staffer said. "It is unfortunate that there have been attempts to tarnish the image of a Korean Wave star using reports that bear no relation whatsoever to the truth".
The Korean entertainment industry is anxious over negative publicity in the Japanese press, citing recent gossipy articles about Choi Ji-woo's alleged bad behavior on set. The pieces alleged that Choi declared the set of the TBS soap opera "Rondo" a smoke-free zone and claimed the mood throughout shooting was unpleasant thanks to the actress. TBS issued a lengthy statement denying the claims.
The magazine, picking up on Lee's next movie "A Summer Story", titled the report "Another Summer Story". It said the woman the actor is seeing used to be a flight attendant, and the two met at a party in Tokyo a few months ago.
Fantom says the report is "100 percent fictitious". The agency put up a notice at Byeong-heon's Japanese homepage and immediately hired a Japanese lawyer after reading the report. "At first our plan was to ignore it and move on, but after the magazine came out, we received a lot of inquiries from Japan, so we decided it wasn't an issue we could just leave alone", a staffer said. "It is unfortunate that there have been attempts to tarnish the image of a Korean Wave star using reports that bear no relation whatsoever to the truth".
The Korean entertainment industry is anxious over negative publicity in the Japanese press, citing recent gossipy articles about Choi Ji-woo's alleged bad behavior on set. The pieces alleged that Choi declared the set of the TBS soap opera "Rondo" a smoke-free zone and claimed the mood throughout shooting was unpleasant thanks to the actress. TBS issued a lengthy statement denying the claims.
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