Yikes, yikes, yikes. I'm not sure how this works production wise. His poor victims though, I hope they are getting some peace.

He video taped himself having sex and shared it with other people. He forced other students to do sex acts.

That should be a career ended right there.

Wondering if any of Ji Soo's old school friends watched Angry Mom. His character turned out to be an exploited kid with a heart of gold, but earlier in the show he was pretty menacing as a high school bully.

This is awful but perhaps it will inspire serious steps to face the issue of school bullies and deal with it.

His career is over but he will get no sympathy from me.

I read that this show was not pre-produced per se but had a large lead time because it was an historical drama (filmed many episodes before its TV debut). It had finished about half of the episodes when this news broke. The debate is whether to recast the role or pivot to another love story. In any event, this is a producer's nightmare.

One hopes he changed his ways. These are pretty nasty, but Middle School was very long ago. If there have been no further allegations (undoubtedly ppl would be rushing forward), there is no point in ruining a person. "Go and sin no more." I worked with juvenile crime for decades and learned that many do bad things at that time, but don't continue it once they mature. As a ppl, we are becoming more unforgiving. It's a very bad trend that won't end well. You can see where it's going in the U.S. where ppl dredge up a tweet from 20 years ago and ruin someone's life.

I hope Ji-soo will suspend his contract or considered dropping from Keyeast Entertainment.

Also, I hope that River Where the Moon Rises will stop airing temporarily due to Ji-soo's bullying allegations. If so, then I might considering that it will be wasted of losing expensive money/budget from either River Where the Moon Rises and/or Ji-soo's agency Keyeast Entertainment.

Meanwhile, I also found that Lee Na-eun considering a would-be cast on upcoming SBS drama Deluxe Taxi, but unfortunately, she will not be because of her dangerous bullying accusations. Also, I hope that Dear M's Park Hye-soo's bullying accusations will now becoming a major controversial school bullying scandal if someone who posted her accusations will receive her death/suicidial threats. Suicide isn't a joke right now and I fear that there would be turning into deadly South Korean school bullying/SchoolBullyingToo accusations if someone will be committed suicide. Look at 2018's #MeToo era in South Korea, it had a fatality: Jo Min-ki committed suicide on March 9, 2018 due to MeToo accusations by someone.

I'm all for repentance and forgiveness, but yeah, his celebrity career should be over. Over over. Forgiveness does not mean no consequences. Unfortunately, his career might not be done, looking at Park ShiHoo.

On the petty side, it's personally upsetting to me as I like to rewatch things and now Page Turner and Cheer Up are off that list. I've tried but I just can't separate the art from the artist.

What a mess. I hope this brings his victims peace. There have been a lot of bullying accusations. I don't think they all have to be career enders, but I hope Ji Soo's career is done.

It's unfortunate the drama was almost fully pre-produced. There is no good answer here. I don't see how they can continue airing Ji Soo's parts, but re-filming with a new actor is going to be expensive and a logistical nightmare.

Remember how they originally wanted Son Ye-jin & Kang Ha-neul as the leads but when that didn't work out they decided to age it down instead of finding other 30-ish actors for the leads. Bet somebody is kicking himself.

Glad he will be removed from River. Ji Soo's bullying scandal went from bad to worse. I don't want to see his face on my screen.

I feel bad for the producer, crew, and the rest of the cast. Extra costs and time must be spent on reshooting scenes and production, but I hope they can salvage this drama.

Ugh...clicked on the last related article under this post, it's one from 2015 (actually about a movie I did watch, a few years ago)...very sad to read the comments praising and encouraging him back then, considering the circumstances ><
Life sure is unexpected..

Poor Kim So Hyun.

I thought this drama would be her big hit as badass princess of Goguryeo.

But the script and the directing weren't so good and now, that...

I wonder who will take the role, can i vote for Kwak Dong Yeon? I mean in Vincenzo his role is not important. Well... they don't really look the same....

This is such a mess.
I can only think of the victims. He did it in mid school and it will be no surprise that he kept being that way after. And let's not talk about the sex abuse allegations, it's just horrible.
I'm so sorry for all the actors and crew of Moon. All their hard work and hopes in this show thrown away. It feels deeply unfair to everyone who's poured their heart on it.
I don't think his career can recover. I don't feel any sympathy from him. I never liked or disliked him. But he's someone who build a career on a terrible past.

This is so disappointing. Why can’t people just live right?

It's telling that he didn't deny any of the accusations. Why did he even become an actor knowing his past would be found out at any time? They've shot 18 out of 20 episodes. I don't see how they can recast and reshoot all his scenes if the other actors have work commitments after the drama. Which actor would want to take his role now, and the first episode already showed his death in the future? I think they're going to shorten it.

He needs to be in jail. Celebrity career is inconsequential. He needs to pay the price for his heinous actions. My heart goes out to his victims and I hope the drama cast and crew can somehow eliminate his presence with the least difficulty

Not stepping down... More like FIRED!

I stanned this guy since ever I saw him on Angry Mom, every time his character didn't get the girl, I called it unfair! Ahh... I cant believe I ever stanned someone so evil. I hope his victims get some peace and will be able to move on and lead a happier life. As for him, I hope he gets the punishment he deserves and never show his face to the public. Not just stepping away from public life, but get convicted for his crimes!

This is bad. Hope some good comes out of all this, and at least schools start taking bullying more seriously. Some of the stuff is really hard to detect if the kids don't tell anybody -like, sex abuse, sex videos, that's really hard to detect unless one of the kids tells a teacher, and for that you need to win their trust. But some of the bullying described in this case - like the cafeteria stuff - was really obvious and could only go on because grown ups turned a blind eye. And kids repeatedly showing up bruised and nobody looking into it, come on! The scale and severity of the stuff described is distressing. No idea how this guy thought this wouldn't come back to bite him in the butt if he pursued a high profile career

This is a pretty clear-cut case to me. I don't know whether he's changed or not. I don't know whether his apology is sincere or not. It doesn't really matter. Accountability is important. He should be criminally prosecuted. He shouldn't be working on this project or have have a career in this industry.

Having said all this, I want to say prescind from this particular case and instead just reiterate that not all bullying cases are the same. Saying insulting things when you're young, even understandably distressing things, is not the same thing as the kinds of things this guy has been accused of. Similarly, a single incident of slapping somebody isn't the same as whaling on them, much less doing so repeatedly and doing serious harm to them, which is what this guy has done. Sexual assault is, suffice it to say, a serious accusation that should be criminally investigated.

Why do I say this? Because I think some of the other accusations that are floating around against other celebrities really shouldn't attract the same level of (justified) disapprobation that this guy is facing. Putting to one side whether social media and the use of public opinion are the right tools for these sorts of accusations, it's not obvious that somebody who said demeaning things as a kid to somebody else a long time ago should lose a career and have his or her public reputation destroyed.

Accountability is important. Forgiveness is also important. Proportionality is another thing that must be kept in mind. These aren't things that have to be traded off against each other.

To be clear, I'm not defending this guy. If true, the things he did are very serious and require denunciation in the strongest terms. He should face consequences for his behaviour.

But I also think that accountability and proportionality will require different things in different circumstances, and we should try to avoid looking at all of these accusations with the same mindset. We should also keep in mind that, where accusations are in fact false (and, worse, where they are motivated by malice or bad faith), the people who are wrongly accused will suffer as well.

Not only that, we are talking about a drama with 9% rating. I cant imagine the stress the people are having right now.

And the staff from the drama are dragging him too.

My 2 cents: I'm not defending Ji Soo in any way. But I do think we should all stand back and take a quick breather before we chop this guys head all the way off. Isn't a person supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, even in S. Korea? The apology letter could be construed as evidence of guilt. But guilt to what? To every single thing that every person (maybe 3) has accused him of? If so, doesn't he and the public, have a right to hear the names of the accusers? Sometimes when a person can hide behind anonymity, they exaggerate what really happened. If Ji Soo did participate in these sexual offenses, it would seem that it would be pretty easy to prove unless the "film" has been destroyed over the years. Let's give a few days and see how things play out before we condemn. Let's hope that the people investigating are doing so with open minds and searching for truth. Then, if Ji Soo truly is guilty of all he has been accused of, then let him stand accountable for all the damage he would have done. Lets just be sure first. And lets remember that he would have been about 15 at the very end of middle school. Lets not push him off that 10 story high roof without being absolutely sure that he no longer deserves to have a life worth living.

Really I can't imagine the victims feel when they see their bully in screen (not only Ji Soo I mean). It's also take some courage for victims to say something like this. I hope they can getting some peace.

As River Where the Moon Rises .. I still love the show, it's really not ideal to change the actor and it's really a challenge for the new actor who will took the place.

If the allegations are true, then I am disgusted with him. That will also means that his career will end abruptly.

I feel sorry for Kim So Hyun though. She gave her best in all her projects

Looks like Na In Woo has been cast. Total different vibe than Jisoo but I guess we shall see.

Very disappointed in Jisoo. It sucks because he was one of my fave actors but I guess not anymore.

My postscript: Ji-soo will be enlist to military by October 2021 as a service worker. I don't know what his outcome in his post-military life afterwards in a long time soon.

he is, unfortunately, a sociopath. in his youth, he felt self-entitled to do whatever he wanted. he had no conscience. he was so self-entitled as to seek a career as an actor, in spite of his past - which he apparently never considered was wrong or that would catch up to him.

i'm just glad he's been outed. there are plenty more that still thrive in the industry as there are in political positions, right...

i hope there will be severe consequences bestowed upon, not only him but anyone/everyone who has done harm to others in their past and/or present. being a celebrity does not provide shelter to such claims...

I am hoping this, and other recent similar stories will lead to actual systemic changes in SK, although I am very pessimistic about it. Everything about this case is really troubling, starting with the fact that he was able to commit (at least some of) these acts. There is no way that the teachers/school could have been unaware he was a bully, and since he was a minor, they, along with his parents, should also be held accountable for this. Although he has to take part of the blame, the fact that adults around him, dropped the ball and did not take charge of the situation is really troubling - this may have helped prevent at least some of the victims, allowed for quicker help and possible compensation for the students that were already victims and, in some way, this is also unfair to him because to form balanced citizen should be one of the main roles of schools and parents.
I am also very troubled by the fact that there is probably no real legal avenue at this point against him (and even less against the school and parents). This is really unfortunate because I am really allergic to this "online mob justice", which condemns people very fast without any proper due process and is closer to vengeance than anything else - but is also (and I fully understand that too well) the only access to any sort of justice there is for his victims. However, I am not sure if this "justice" is really helpful to the victims (i would think they should get some help and compensation rather than this modern talion law) and it is really not the way I wish society held its members accountable.
The only silver lining here is that at least people started to talk more about this bullying issue. Sadly, very often the discussion stays very narrowly on the perpetrator, as if the perpetrator was a sort of anomaly, when clearly the discussion should be broadened because there are a lot of complicated factors at play - but this is probably the case because a wider discussion would force society to take a honest look at this very ugly side of itself...

I remember at the beginning when they announce the drama I thought (and commented): now Jisoo will finally get the girl! (As a nice joke), but wow, not only he won't, but.... this is bad.
I feel conflicted because although I also hate bullying, since it happens long ago, makes me wonder how "valid" these allegations are.... not in the sense that they are not true, but in the sense: should he be punish now for what happened then??? (Since he was a teenager then, it is like right now he is another person), but on the other hand... does an aggravation of certain degree expire?
What do the victims want or need in order to heal?
Is that something he can provide?
Will the victims be ok with a public apology? Do they want money??
About the rest of all... what does that has to do with us??
It is a difficult topic.
Although, of course, I like my actors to be honourable people, I cannot expect that. And even when they are pretty decent nice people in real life, they are not perfect nor can they be.
To cancel him for mistakes he did as a teenager... that would make me a judge. I don't feel that way.
Sometimes I feel, the reaction of the Korean community is not because they really sympathise with "victims", but because they like that German word that doesn't have translation: "schadenfroh"... they enjoy being judges and seeing the ruine of others.

I wonder if "justice" can make indeed a person pay for a wrongdoing, even years after, but then allow him to keep living.
It is my philosophical question, I know there is no answer.
Also: whatever "justice" we can apply as humans will never be good enough, that is why we need God's kingdom, to rule upon us.
Final comment: if the sexual allegations are real, I don't think this actor will ever recover, even if he was never accused.
Where did the parent be at that time??? It is upsetting parents don't teach their children to respect self bodies or those of others. I blame his parents more than him.

Moral and criminal treatment of his crimes (if proven true) will differ greatly and I won't get into the former aspect of it. Reading up on previous cases though, I'd like to share....
In SK, if a sexual assault is committed by a minor against another minor and is found out once the perpetrator or both perpetrator and victim have reached adulthood & 'absorbed into society' (aka delayed justice ), then it still warrants jail-time of the adult-perpetrator (who was a minor at the time of the crime).

Depending on the reach/ power/ clout of the perpetrator's side, the judge may:
1.) decide to aquit him of the charges if the crimes were not too severe, or
2.) decide to switch out jail-time for juvie/ correctional/ educational facility if the crimes were severe, but some negotiation (monetary or otherwise) had been settled towards the victim's side by the perpetrator.

So, if this plays out in court, and *if* the accusations made hold any water, then these are the two punishment scenarios that may play out. However, his comeback into k-ent after MS, solely depends on the public's mood. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you for attending my Ted-Talk.

I've read of comments about Jisoo being involved in school bullying. I did not realize the extent of his horrible behavior. Its very appalling and downright criminal. Why are these even happening in middle school? The school administration should've done something about this long time ago.

"We will be cancelling the reruns that were scheduled for this weekend, that show Ji Soo in them.

We have decided to air episodes 7 and 8 as they were scheduled to air soon, and we will delete as many scenes with Ji Soo as possible. Starting with episode 9, we will re-film the scenes that would have included Ji Soo and broadcast with the newly filmed scenes.

KBS recognizes the severity of the incident and we reviewed all possible measures, including the possibility of cancelling the entire drama, but if we were to cancel the drama entirely, we could not help but worry that the viewers who were enjoying the show would feel disappointed.

We ask for your understanding and continued interest in River Where the Moon Rises.

— KBS"

I’m only just catching up with this awful, awful story.

I hope his victims get some peace of mind now, but I don’t know if an apology alone is enough. I’m uncomfortable with convicting people in the court of public opinion, but the things he’s accused of are so vile and so serious that there have to be consequences that are proportional, no?

That said, I would not be surprised if there was a road back to stardom for Ji-soo. The entertainment world has a short memory, after all.

Oh wow! When i saw the title i was all ready to forgive and forget. Then i read the article! Dayum!

According to this article, after investigation, the sexual allegations (sexual violence with coercion) are completely false. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanmacdonald/2021/03/05/key-east-and-kbs-respond-to-ji-soo-bullying-allegations/?sh=235faa3a1e8d His agency has requested that "one-sided claims about unconfirmed information should not be speculated about or written about in articles." So just hold off until the investigation is complete.

Jesus. Some of these allegations are pretty disturbing, and potentially criminal (I'm not sure about South Korea's child pornography laws or the statute of limitations for those crimes). I hope that everything that needs to investigated is thoroughly investigated and that the victims find some measure of peace after all of it.

I'm not sure if Jisoo can ever come back from this. I'm conflicted because some of the things he's accused of are horrific, but he was also a child when he did those things. I guess that he did the bare minimum of owning up to his actions but I don't know if I'll be able to watch his projects anymore. In any case, it seems like this is a severe systemic issue. I'm honestly furious and baffled that the school authorities never did anything about it. Even if victims never brought the issue up... It is the school's responsibility to provide a safe learning environment for all of their student and they utterly failed. I also can't help but think about the people who were victimized by bullies that didn't end up becoming celebrities, who may never have their trauma acknowledged by the perpetrators. I can only hope that after all of this bloodletting, real change can happen and things can start to heal.

Holy Crap.. I would have never guessed he was like that.. Geesh Ji Soo.. But I never really liked him or was attracted to him.. Thank Goodness... Dang.. This is juicy.. I would have never guessed. Glad I wasnt a big fan or I would have been disappointed.. SMH..

I heard Nam In Woo from Mr. Queen was taking his place.. I love him!

I just started watching this. When I went to do my usual hop around on asianwiki trying to remember which other shows the cast had been in before, I noticed the note about him on the show's page saying that he would only be portraying the character until ep. 7 which I thought was especially strange. I should have checked here then to see what was up.

All the other beanie posts so far have covered pretty much anything else I would say.

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