LDH's departure is really sad since it will not only affect her but the rest of the casts who will be written off the drama as well. While LDH's financial standing may not be affected by her decision to leave EOE, the same may not be true for the other supporting actors. Yes, it is true that they dont have that much screen time but as long as they are still with the drama they are guaranteed a paycheck. Something that is, to a no-name actor who doesn't have a steady income or work, very vital.

I know LDH has had hits in the past ( I personally liked her in Hello Miss and My Girl) but in showbiz you're only as good as your last project and walking out in the middle of a project is not something that an actor would want to be remembered by producers, directors, writers, etc.

Wow......REAL drama going on in the K-entertainment. heheheh

Anyways in Lee Da-hae’s defense just because she is shown on film for only 3 min per show doesn't mean that she was being filmed for only 3 min. That could be a reason why she decided to leave because she probably had many hours, days, weeks, months, of filming, but then at the end only have a FEW MINIUTES OF AIR TIME!?

I would kind of leave too if I felt I wasn't getting my due. Also with all the recent restrictions being put on K-celeb with how much they can be paid compared to how much they have to work.....maybe she felt that she could do better.

We really shouldn't be putting other actors and actresses careers onto her back either because what if she really is sick? Would anyone still want her to work herself to death just for others can have a pay check?

If the writers want the other actors to stay on there are ways they can rewrite them into the drama for they can connect to the other actors.

I give LDH the benefit of the doubt on this one.

Lets face it, they used her to garner fans for the show then discarded her (or put it on the back burner) when they felt her character wasn't worth developing because there were other important ones. No actor would put up with being treated like trash - especially not one who has won one many an award for her performances - no matter whom else is involved. This is show business, not a TV drama.

They marketed her as the lead but she only got what? 3 minutes per episode so far? They strung her along for 30 episodes with assurances that her character would be developed but it wasn't happening so she did what she had to do. She has invested all this time into this drama based on what was promised to her - time that she could spend actually leading in a different drama - so is she just supposed to smile and say go right ahead, walk all over me?

I know fans like to defend their idols, but please try to be more reasonable here. It boggles my mind that people could say she's "brave" for walking out and somehow this gives her more artistic integrity, but they don't see a failure to uphold one's responsibility to a whole cast of other actors and staff as what it is: unprofessional. If you're going to hold her to these elevated standards and make her out to be some kind of noble hero, at least apply it to the whole of her behavior, not just the part you like.

Let's stop with the hysterics, too, like saying LDH is refusing to be "walked over." Maybe you don't understand how entertainment works, but a drama production has EVERY RIGHT to change the story, alter plot lines, make some characters more prominent and less prominent as they go along. It is NOT UNETHICAL. It's the way it works. I can't believe people are reading one-paragraph character descriptions from MONTHS AGO, even before the drama started, and getting angry that things changed. Well DUH! A preview press release is not a contract or a promise. Lee Da Hae isn't being abused here. She got stuck in a situation she didn't like and decided to save her pride rather than suck it up and be a pro.

Walking out just because you're angry on a job just means you're childish and is akin to throwing a tantrum no matter how you look at it. The proper response was to suck it up and stick with it until the end of the contract,. You made a mistake accepting it so make sure you don't get yourself in the same situation the next time round, be it the company, director, producer or whoever' fault it was ie. dont work with that person or company or whatever again.

That's respecting your (now ex) colleagues who are in this case getting screwed now in so many ways - i.e. the obvious, plot being screwed, supporting cast being cut, to the not-so-obvious like bad PR for the show, disappointed fans, wasted production time, extra work for writer, crew etc.

Just like in any other job in the world really... you dont walk out and dump your s*** on them. You finish them first and THEN leave.

So yeah, sorry, but the fanboys and fangirls should really look at things more objectively here.

If you interview and are hired for a position and once you show up to the job you find out that you will be doing something completely different...don't you have a right to back out? They did not keep their end of the bargain so why should she? Things go both ways.

Now I do wish she had stuck it out. What is 10 episodes after all? Especially when she has so little screen time. Perhaps things got ugly and she wanted to hurt the production but in the end this will mainly hurt her. If she had finished the series and voiced her disappointments then she would have been the one people sympathized with.

So while I do think she had every right to back out, I wish she hadn't...for the sake of her image and her co-stars.

>> If you interview and are hired for a position and once you show up to the job you find out that you will be doing something completely different…don’t you have a right to back out? < <

That has got to be the most convoluted logic ever. If MBC hired her to be an actress and then made her paint sets, or mend wardrobe, then yeah she could quit. But they hired her to ACT. She thought she was going to act one way and they wanted her to act another. So what? SHE'S AN ACTOR. She signed up for an acting job and she quit because she didn't like looking silly. It's still her bad.

She's prolly regretting her (most likely) rash decision now because she didnt consider all the consequences and is suffering and or will suffer for it. Ah well, that's life. You fall, you learn, you get up and you move on. Hopefully she will come out of this a stronger better person and actress. bad image or not.

see, what she's done!
just because she didn't get what she has been promised,
just because she is not the center of the drama,
and because she's in the backseat of a newcomer,
she'd leave the show!
i'd say it's a BRATTY and CHILDISH decision.
why not just leave when everything is done
and finish it gracefully then people
would have admire her more for staying.

*..*

I have read some comment from LDH thread in SP, it's funny that they blame everyone - LYH, also SSH...for LHH quitting!!!

man this is just getting worst for LDH and her fan seeing that all the cast of the min family have to go to if i were min family cast i would be so piss at LDH for not sticking to the end now they will have to let go too because of the selfish act of LDH and her big ego

The other actors that are being dismissed due to LDH's leave are probably pissed! Seriously, there was 10 more episodes to go! I really don't get why she decided to pull out of EOE at this point. I'm guessing that she really does have a big ego? Or else why would she quit? She just can't take being the second fiddle. Seriously, you're an actor. Act! And yea what can possibly be wrong with her health? After all she barely has any scene time on EOE. Excuses, excuses, excuses! I'm going to a big guess and say we probably won't be seeing LDH for a while to come.

All I can say is bye bye lucrative CF contracts Lee Da Hae. You can now kiss your Samsung contract goodbye...i doubt they'll renew it now that her goody image is going down the drain.

I am appalled after reading the Lee Da Hae obsessive fangirls justifying her every move blaming everyone else....even making her out to be some kind of hero. it's so pathetic, it's like watching a really badly written comedy show...it makes me cringe.

Do your own calculation.

It takes two episodes to finish one serial and Lee Dae Hae will leave after episode 40 so we are left with only 5 serials. How can the new scriptwriter develope her character further, EVEN IF THEY ARE CREATIVE. Her role is minimal.

They decided to make LDH supportive role that is why Min Hye Rin's
character is always floating and sometime she don't even appeared in an episode, ridiculous. So Lee Dae Hae aja aja !!

Not childish but smart move !!
Off couse she consider all angles to come to a hard decision which jeopardise her career but she took the risk , brave girl!! .

Good for MBC who don't care for quality but quantity.
Production manager how do you feel now??? SCRAMBLING

Think of this matter rationally, guys ..
If Lee Da Hae really leaves East of Eden, it wont really affect her co-stars ..
OK..for Baek and her sister, they have been gone for long in this episode itself and its easier to leave their roles out ..
Her father and step-mom, MBC CAN retain them as they still have connections to the other character in this drama ..
Probably Lee Da Hae have thought of all this before intend to leave ..
Who REALLY knows whether this a ANOTHER PLAN of MBC to reduce COST .. They have been doing it for long time ..

And for Lee Da Hae health problem when she's only been for 3 minutes, that's the reason itself. Can't you guys see it. Stress caused by not knowing her character anymore .. that's health problem as well.. Try to consider for her if WE ARE REALLY HUMAN ..

Just don't bash her anymore .. Its not her fault .. even EOE co-stars is fighting with the production team and scriptwriter coz of the changes in their character ..
So is it REALLY lee da hae's fault or EOE itself???

Think of it guys ..

It takes TWO episodes to finish ONE serial and Lee Dae Hae will leave after episode 40, so we are left with only FIVE serials. How could the new scriptwriter develop her character further, EVEN IF THEY ARE CREATIVE.
Her role is minimal.

They decided to make LDH supportive role that is why Min Hye Rin's
character is always floating and sometime she don't even appeared in an episode, ridiculous. So Lee Dae Hae aja aja !!

Not childish but smart move !!
Of course she consider all angles to come to a hard decision which jeopardise her career but she took the risk , brave girl!! .

Good for MBC who don't care for quality but quantity.
Production manager, how do you feel now??? SCRAMBLING

What is up with LDH fans? I get the fact that they are loyal but seriously what is wrong with them? They are going around blaming this and that for LDH's leave which I find really desperate on their part. LDH fans have got to be some of the most ignorant people out there! Sorry, this is my impression from all the stuff I read from LDH fans. They need to stop saying BS. They do a lot talking about everything and nothing! They should just realize that LDH is an actress and it's her job to act. Ok, I get that she signed on to be the main lead actress but seriously, why couldn't she just take a back seat and act out the script she was given. It really shows what type of girl she is. And I personally don't like those type of people. Does she really need to be up front and centre all the time? I'm actually glad she quit because her character is so boring to me. I feel really bad for those actors that are being let go of since LDH is leaving EOE. Her quitting has cause so much trouble for the actors and everyone that's involved it EOE. Next time please don't do such selfish things again.

^wait what? what type of people?? you mean someone who doesn't let others walk on her toes...They didn't honor their contract with her... After all the hype, look how she was treated... The way she went about it was wrong...but I agree with what she did.... They used her, and you expect her to sit back??? Sorry but if you are supposed to play cinderella,than you are given the role of the stepsisters, you wouldn't just stand back....how is that fair?!?!?

i feel she was abused...i don't think the work load is what affecting her health,more like the stress and the feeling of being cheated.. Lead actress??please,she was no lead actress in that drama...They used her good and they were riding on her status... Though it out?!? Maybe this is what shes been doing for the last 30 something episodes....False promises,used her, left her in the cold, ridiculized her (promised the lead role,now playing a secondary role next to a newbie).... I would've left after epi30....

But I do feel bad for the actors losing their job cuz of this....

I'm not even a fan and I support her...can't let people use you and tough it out, please..... why should she be the only one to suffer from this?!?! she did nothing wrong to deserve such treatment....and if she feels she can't give anymore of herself and feels drained, then i think for her own sakeand the drama's, stepping out was the best solution.... this way there is no useless tension on set

*ridiculed....

They didn’t honor their contract with her - Have you read the contract beetween MBC and LDH? Did the contract says that she will be lead actress and have a big role?
I think LDH fans must be thankful MCB for not sue her breaking contract.. why blame for MBC?

All along from the begining of her character Min Hye Rin's screen time is insignificant.

But now they realize Min Hye Rin's character is so important that they blame
Lee Dae Hae for leaving.
She is giving other potential actors to further develop their characters.

Stay healthy Lee Dae Hae, take care!!

Enjoy your study and happy new year !!

she left because of her pride. she thinks that she is an top actress that should be given more screen time to shine. totally selfish n irresponsible leaving halfway. an actress with SHITTY attitude.

EOE is becoming a real-life On Air!!! LOL..

Let's all sit back and watch the fanboys and fangirls come to LDH's defense. Point blank, she signed into something therefore she should follow through. Clearly she didn't have the integrity and the dignity to do so. For the people who used the fact that she had little screentime as a smokescreen to divert our attentions from the true root of the problem, I have to say that is complete and utter B.S. If that were the case then the reason why she left, "health problems" is nothing more than a moot excuse to cover up her real reasons for leaving as she wouldn't be able to handle any more screentime as it would only add to her "stress" and deteriorating health conditions. In fact by attributing her departure to these so called "medical issues" she is simultaneously admitting that she couldn't and wouldn't be able to handle the lead role in this drama.

"Above all..to thineself be true" ~ Shakespeare

Bless you LDH. If she felt it wasn't right, then it wasn't right.

I'm not even a fan. I've watched one drama - My Girl - which was okay, not as amazing as the ratings, but good. She said that "she has no idea what she's doing or the point of her character." It's futile, she was being used and was losing every sense of dignity of being an actress by being in the drama. I applaud her for having the courage to stand up for herself

The drama is pretty crappy. I don't think it'll make a difference to whatever hectic plot they already made up. :X

Analogy:

If you get involved in a marriage (make it legal and everything), then you find out your husband is a psycho, narcisstic, abusive man, Are you gonna stick and live with him till you die like the contract says

OR

are you gonna break away from this sickness and look out for your health???

1) Which is more important? (your health and well-being or the end of the drama)

2) Was it your fault that the husband is so sick and deluded? (drama - illogical and pointless)

3) Did the husband manipulate and coax you into marrying him by acting one thing but being another? (drama - Yes)

4) So is it the wife's fault? (drama - damn no)

5) So stop calling women reckless and irresponsible. She only did what was right!

The comments keep getting more and more ridiculous. LOL!!

Man, fans are just making themselves look crazy and out of touch with reality rather than doing anything to make LDH look better. MBC is an abusive husband?? WTF? LDH is soooo mistreated? HAHAHHA

Keep them coming! I need some entertainment.

Can we stop these irrelevant analogies? You know you're stretching it when you begin to compare a television drama to an abusive relationship. You act as if LDH has been put under a life-threatening situation.

Lala, I do agree agree with what you are saying. Your explanation of being true to yourself has done more to convey LDH's point of view than all the analogies I've read thus far.

Actually, you don't know how production companies treat their actors. You can't say for sure if they do or do not maltreat/exploit them. This is the entertainment world after all. I think Da Hae made a smart move for herself. A badly scripted drama ain't worth your health and dignity. Since they have 5 other big-name actors, I'm sure they can live without her. The consequences that followed...she has to be held reliable in some way, but it's not intentional on her part and how ironic is it that so many actors get cut off because of her (after the scriptwriters have made her trivial from the drama)?

If Da Hae gets 3 minutes per episodes, how much time do the supporting actors connected to her get? 30 seconds? If so, then it will barely make an impact, and it's almost laughable that people are acting as if this is a horrible thing. I'm sure they will be compensated for their 30 seconds on screen time in some way. Maybe this strange complication of so many characters would've never happened if the writers weren't so bad at their jobs, and they didn't irrationally slum a bunch of talentless actors with big name companies to pay them for more screen time to the same drama. I believe anyone with sense would NOT have allowed this drama to have been produced. In fact, if I was a crew member I think I would be ashamed to work on such an insipid, baseless drama. All they do is yell and scream. It drove me nuts, I could only watch 5 episodes.

Looking at this from a purely objective and legal perspective (as much as I possibly can)...

MBC did not honor their contract with LDH like they should have (whether they were paid as they have money issues or scriptwriters changed their minds is irrelevant). As a result, there is a bit of INJUSTICE to the whole deal because they did lie, manipulate the actress and audience. Put yourself in her shoes. Do you feel this is fair? [MBC producers aren't dumbasses. They know what they're doing.] Therefore, LDH does have a right to choose to take a step back and not follow the contract which has already been broken or to sacrifice herself for EOE. The former, I believe, she has every right to take. In life, every person has the right to protect their will and honor for every second they live. LDH no longer owes anyone anything, anymore. On the other hand, the latter is to ask a lot from any human being. She is suffering, yes, maybe minor, but still suffering more than she has to because a contract was dishonored by (funnily enough) the real irresponsible party - the scriptwriter and MBC.

It has nothing to do with being a top actress. It has to do with being a human being and feeling wronged by the whole process. People should stick and honor their words. It is just bad character and unprofessionalism on their part. It's completely illogical to expect so much from the injured party when you've breached your word first. Only a fool would continue through when they have been wronged in so many ways.

Just my thoughts.

P.S. When you think about it, LDH's decision to leave has probably been the most rational thing that has happened in EOE thus far.

LDH prolly thought her role made no difference, and her exit from the drama would make none anywayz.....whenz the last time u guyz have seen those 4 characterz make an appearance recently? stop making it a bigger deal than it is. give her some credit. she didn't do that in her other dramas. it must've been a hard situation; she prolly gave a lot of thought to it. it wasn't done recklessly like how the drama was made. haters should leave the poor girl alone. I wouldn't want to be in a work like that either. I know you guyz don't really love the drama anywayz. how can u..it's so ..
But Umm, let's concentrate on the real problem here - This thing called "East Of Eden" (the most trite, vomit-inducing drama name in the history of korean dramas) -> Whose bright idea was this? I would like to know because I think I'm seriously going to write a letter of complaint to the amazingggggg genius mastermind. *rolls eyes*

My recap of episode 36.

What was Min Hye Rin doing at the fashion show ?.

Clapping hand , accept a piece of paper (message)
and pass it to Janice that's all. !!!

What crap is that ???.

No wonder Lee Dae Hae felt guilty to accept her pay by just doing that !!!. You can get a messanger boy to do that act.

So what is the purpose of staying ? Don't waste her precious time !!!

Wow that is really really sad. I feel sorry for her...so much talent and beauty wasted.

I think she quit because she doesn't want to accept money she does not work hard for.

i am laughing in disbelieve when i read her fans try to back her up.. really, there's no logic point. all they said was 'be rational, understand her feeling'

u guys are the one who should be rational. now she's effecting other people, that IS VERY SELFISH. i dont know if u dont call that selfish until ur dad was in that situation. or u guys are just as selfish as she is?

sweetydoodle said it best:

see, what she’s done!
just because she didn’t get what she has been promised,
just because she is not the center of the drama,
and because she’s in the backseat of a newcomer,
she’d leave the show!
i’d say it’s a BRATTY and CHILDISH decision.
why not just leave when everything is done
and finish it gracefully then people
would have admire her more for staying.

because it in the end her ego and pride could not accept that she's second fiddle in this drama. I guess it's one thing to suffer through when you are the lead and another when you're truly not. Especially since she's not a successful lead actress. sorry fangirls, 1 successful drama (my girl) does not make you a top star...... popular star, but not top.

looks like she's the real bratty, not gook young ran.

and absolutely agree. her only successful drama is my girl. and yet she try to act diva-ish.

I don't watch EOE or even a fan of LDH, but I believe in the concept of fairness. Even from the start of EOE, I've read that LDH is one of the leads. So, I believe as one of the leads, she should take centre stage but this did not happen at all even after more than two thirds of the series. This unfair treatment stresses her, so she opted out. As MBC agrees to this, I think, they realize that she has cause to do what she did.

The fate of the other actors/actresses should not rely on her. She did not cast them or pay their fee. She is not the one who produces this drama, she is just one of the cast who was unfairly treated. Though is too bad for the other casts who are going to be dropped, LDH should not be blamed for this. I do not think other actors/ actresses of her calibre and status will take this kind of treatment hands down either.

I'm just stating my two cents here and people are free to agree and disagree.

I don't understand all these people calling her selfish and telling her to stick it out. Either you guys are saints or you're liars. Yes, its nice to think we'd all suck it up and sacrifice ourselves for other people's paychecks, but in the real world, like someone previously mentioned, Cinderella doesn't get her happily ever after.

And seriously? She signed for the role and she's paid to act so just act? She signed up to be a lead actress, or even a plain actress if you want, but at this point, she's just part of the scenery.

i would be mad if i were them.. i'll say that selfish. sorry.. and i'm sure u'll call some other actor selfish if they did the same.

"So. On this issue, I side with LDH, not because I favour her over LYH (’cause I don’t), but moreso because I am disappointed in the direction East of Eden has taken (especially in terms of progression). It had a lot of potential in the love story department, but now, I think it can only rely on the main issue being the birth story."

Good point Thua as I feel East could've been summed up in 25 episodes rather than 50 or more. I hear the Entertainment business complain about skyrocketing costs but I am like are there better ways to cut cost and sum up your story line with as few episodes as possible. Nevertheless was LDH aware at anytime where the direction of her character was going?

I will miss LDH in EoE but I agree with most of those comments...the screen writter paid too much attention to the 2 brother's charcter development ....I like where Dong Wook is going though...he seems to take the stepss of his dad....Yet it is sad that they are not going into their families yet ........

I think the screenwriter is to blame as much as she's on stress......as for the new screen writer I have yet to see her writing (havent watched ep 35&^)

but anyway LDH is better off making a drama which she can be comfortable with her role...but East Of Eden is still going to be very much in chaos ......an extension would mostlikely be their saviour ! since we all want interaction between the real sons and their p[arents (such as living with them or something?)

anyway LDH ...aja aja Fighting !!!

P;.S I hope the writer doesnt mess with Young ran either

Hi javabeans .

Could you help to translate this korean article. Thank you

http://www.asiatoday.co.kr/news/view.asp?seq=193520

It's unprofessional of her to leave the production & voiced her disappointment with her character development while the drama is still on air. After the drama is done & maybe some months later, then she can talk crap about her role as she wish but not when the drama is still on air. She has the responsibility to promote the drama til the end when she signed the contract.

LDH is really a bratty and selfish actess, she doesn't even consider that her selfish act will have big impact on other actors!!!!

Seriously, I wished she wasn't in the drama at all! I can't believe she quit!!! I don't get the people who back up LDH's move to quit and says it was the right thing to do. She is downright irresponsible and selfish. People who don't think she was selfish and irresponsible are probably those that are selfish and irresponsible themselves. Selfish for putting herself first ahead of anyone else (fans, actors and producers of EOE). And irresponsible for not fulfilling her contract and just pulling out before the drama end. For god's sake, there was only 10 more episodes to go! That's what I don't get! You can film 40 episodes but you can't film 10 more? What is wrong with her. I think her career is heading south from this move. I'm going to think twice before watching her in another drama in case she drops of half was through the drama again!

Hello everyone!!!
I'm not a super fan of lee da hae,but sincerely i think everyone has taken this out way out of proportion, everyone in here, has talked how she is so unprofessional and how irresponsible actress she is, but i think i agreed with the persons who said how the cut of the others actors is now her fault, they have creative directors right?? so they should find a way to make their roles connected with the other caracthers , i don't know how people are so disapointed with this, so now everything that goes wrong in EOE is lee da hae fault, because she quit.

Other thing i want to said is i really think that before she quit she really talk with everyone of the cast, if not why the other actors are supporting her??? if she is really bad as they put her they can talk now freely of how selfish she is, don't you think????

I think everyone has their right to think whatevere they want, but before you put it in internet, you really should think about it from all the angles,pleass.

I'm sorry if i extend my point of view, i apologies to everyone if i offendem in anything, and pleass excuse my bad ortographie is because english is not my maternal leaguage. PEACE!!!!!!!!!

This is Song Seung Hun's doing. He told the writer that he didn't want to have a love triangle; he just wanted to be with Lee Yeon Hee. He told the writer that she should focus more on the fighting and stuff. So the writer took this into consideration and took out all of the Lee Da Hae parts.

When Lee Da Hae signed up for this drama she was supposed to be getting one of the main roles. Up to about episode 30 she was only supposed to come out a little bit then the love triangle was supposed to kick in. But then here comes SSH saying that he just wants to be with Lee Yeon Hee (in another program he once said that LYH was his ideal girl) and focus on fighting. (Before this SSH also wanted this certain singer to sing the OST and told the PDs and they got that singer to sing the OST for the drama.)

LDH also left a message on her minihompi apologizing to all the writers, PDs, directors and such. She apologized to everyone EXCEPT SONG SEUNG HUN AND LEE YEON HEE. (She left them out "for some reason".)

SSH also left a message on his hompi trying to divert all of the negative attention that he was receiving from the netizens. (Personally I say that he deserves it. I mean who does he think he is???) He tried to say that it wasn't his doing and that LDH had it going.

You can read all of this on Daum News and Daum blogs from the staff and Naver and the MBC Drama Gallery. It's EVERYWHERE.