Car accidents plague drama production

74 July 21, 2011July 25, 2011

by girlfriday

Two wholly unrelated car accidents occurred in close succession this week, but both have an impact on currently-airing drama production. Park Shin-hye, lead actress on MBC’s youth melodrama You’ve Fallen For Me was in a car accident on the 18th along with her staff, and was reported to be unharmed. She received treatment and then returned directly to the set, but quickly felt the aftereffects and had to return to the hospital mid-shoot. Production was halted and Park’s health was announced as the top priority.

What would have been today’s Episode 8 has been pushed back, and it remains to be seen how long her recovery might take. Hopefully she’ll get a clean bill of health and be able to return to set fully recovered, and the drama will only be one episode off-schedule. This show has already been plagued with production woes, so I fear any further setbacks like having go a week or more without its lead actress. Today’s broadcast was replaced by a clip show of the past seven episodes.

And then early this morning, actor Eom Ki-joon got into a car accident as well. His accident doesn’t report any injuries, thankfully, but he blew over a 0.1% blood alcohol content, which means he will be indicted for drunk driving. He reportedly rear-ended a taxi, but neither party suffered injury.

Eom is currently starring as the second lead in upcoming SBS weekend drama Scent of a Woman, which premieres this Saturday. It’s unclear how his accident will affect that drama’s production, which isn’t even out of the gate. I’d hate to see such a highly anticipated drama have to make a sudden left turn days before its premiere.

Can’t we just put our drama actors in little bubbles during production so they can do no harm to themselves or others? Sigh.

Via TV Report, Sports Seoul

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51 MJP

July 22, 2011 at 4:03 AM

It is very unfortunate the many times Korean actors/actresses have been in car accidents. It seems a fairly frequent problem driving in Korea. How many have there been in the past year alone 2011?

Someone from Super Junior who was in one previously.
The Kpop singer from the group who just settled with the dead person's family.
Kim Rae Won's unmanned car was hit.
PSH as shown above.
EKJ as shown above.
Lee Min Ho while shooting City Hunter.

A total of 26,873 car accidents were caused by drunk driving in 2008 and 969 people were killed, according to data released by the police-affiliated Korea Road Traffic Authority last year.
Statistics quoted from: [http://star-motoring.com/News/2011/Korean-drunk-drivers-to-face-tougher-penalty.aspx]

However, in the U.S.A. according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration there are about 43,000 people killed in fatal car accidents each year in the United States. Roughly, 40 percent of the fatal crashes are alcohol-related. In addition to fatal accidents, about 2.9 million people are injured each year.
Statistics quoted from: [http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/fatal-accident-statistics.html]

I don't know what the statistics would be for how many accidents per cubit foot of road to compare countries on a more level playing field, the U.S.A. is obviously much bigger and has more drivers.

But it is either rare or unreported the news of a celebrity being involved in a car accident.

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52 sara

July 22, 2011 at 4:28 AM

so many accidents because of drunk drivig.korea doesn't have any serious punishment for that?

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53 Cam

July 22, 2011 at 8:34 AM

Omo, Omo......O_o

I am fan of Park Shin Hye, of course, and I hope she will be all right & it's important for her to recover her health very well before returning to her drama, hopefully so! Also, Ki-Joon, Fighting, too!

Thank God that Park Shin Hye & Joon are very normally fine & I hope they will be careful in the future. =)

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54 Saki

July 23, 2011 at 12:01 AM

what happened to shooting ahead of time? that's a way to be profecianal. PSH shows facial features here that i wasn't aware of .o. i like her cheeks. it seems to be a trend to do liposucktion on face cheeks but the people i've seen do look better rather than having a chubby jawline.