Thursday, September 29, 2016

[NEWS] 160928 Sports Chosun Exclusive: “Park Yuchun not edited out” ‘Lucid Dream’ confirm opening for January 2017



‘Lucid Dream’ (Director: Kim Jun-seong, Production: Road Pictures) –the fantasy-thriller movie to which its release was indefinitely postponed with ‘Park Yuchun’s scandal’– decided on a release date of January 4th next year at the end of the long wait.
Recently [a] ‘Lucid Dream”s production crew [member] said via Sports Chosun, “There was a final decision that ‘Lucid Dream’, which was expected for a fall release this year, will be in the line-up of January next year”.
This production crew [member] explained, “Back when Park Yuchun faced a lawsuit on the suspicion of sexual assault the past June, ‘Lucid Dream’ production company and NEW had discussed a lot about setting the timing of its release. We were prepared for a fall release but were at a loss at the case that surfaced suddenly.
In particular, it is a non-editable situation where Park Yuchun is playing a hidden character who helps Go Soo[‘s character], the protagonist, in the film; and the production crew and NEW had to adjust for a release date, following to the direction arranged by his scandal case. Seeing such a timing, they decided on a release date of January 4, 2017”.
‘Lucid Dream’ –Park Yuchun’s last work before enlisting– placed its name in this year’s fall line-up after entering in its first shooting in April last year, having its crank-up in June that year, and going through post-production for 1 year.
After ordering the hit ‘Descendants of the Sun’, a KBS2 drama in the first half of the year, investor & distributor NEW gathered anticipations as much as in their fall line-up and in many ways.
However in June a situation, to which Park Yuchun’s case unraveled and indefinitely postponed the release date, happened. Internally, opinions saying ‘edit the amount of Park Yuchun to the maximum and let’s open’ were considerable but this also made for a tough situation. They were limited by an amount that can edit the movie’s storyline.
After being stuck in a predicament in many ways and having indefinitely postponed its fall release once, ‘Lucid Dream’ had to watch the flow of timing.
Meanwhile, because Park Yuchun got cleared of suspicions completely, ‘Lucid Dream’ was confirmed for a release date of January 4th next year after there was discussion over the timing of its release again. It is expected that the amount of Park Yuchun is included, unedited and intact.
On the other hand, ‘Lucid Dream’ is a fantasy-thriller that portrays a desperate struggle where a man, who lost his son 3 years prior, moves in and out between dreaming and reality while discovering clues through lucid dream[ing]. It stars Go Soo, Sol Kyung-gu, Kang Hye-jung, Park In-hwan, Chun Ho-jin, and Park Yuchun; and is Director Kim Jun-seong’s the first commercial movie and debut work. It will be released on January 4, 2017.
Source: Sports Chosun
Translated by: rilanna of JYJ3

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Park Yuchun’s Accuser, Her First Trial Postponed to Oct. 13th… Hearing for Bail Comes First



BizEnter Lee Eun Ho Reporter

The first trial for A who has been imprisoned on the charges of false accusation and attempted extortion after filing a report against Singer/Actor Park Yuchun would be postponed. It was known that the first trial for A and her accomplices originally scheduled on the morning of the 22nd was postponed to Oct. 13th. Before that, on this coming 27th, a hearing related to the bail applied to the court by her lawyer is scheduled to be proceeded.

After A was imprisoned in August, she has been taken into custody at a detention center. Her lawyers have applied a bail for her on the 12th based on their judgement of “no danger of obstruction of the evidences and flight” and with the purpose of “request of going to trial under the state of release to have the trial right to defend.”

Meanwhile, A filed a complaint against Park Yuchun for alleged sexual assault in last June, but she withdrew it after being reported by the media. However, after Park Yuchun was found innocent for sexual assault accusation and the police detected the circumstances that A and her accomplices tried to extort a few hundreds of million Wons in the process of filling report to the police, the prosecutor’s office indicted A for false accusation and attempted extortion while being imprisoned and indicted two of her accomplices for attempted extortion without detention. (T/N: This last part was the mistake made by the reporter. One of her accomplices, Mob Hwang was also imprisoned before the public indictment.)

Source: BizEnter
Trans by: Uttunfan via 6002SKY


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UPDATES!

The bail application by the defendant Lee (so-called A) charged with false accusation & attempted extortion was rejected. [cr. uttunfan]

Friday, September 23, 2016

[NEWS] 160922 Park Yuchun’s first accuser request bail…first trial postponed till next month



Ms. A –who was arrested under the suspicions of false allegations and attempted blackmail for accusing singer-and-actor Park Yuchun of charges of sexual assault– has requested bail.
According to a legal professional, Ms. A –who was arrested and indicted under the suspicions of false allegations for accusing singer-and-actor Park Yuchun of charges of sexual assault the past June– had submitted a request for bail on September 12th. Ms. A was arrested and imprisoned in a detention center since the past August.
The courts are expected to have a hearing for the bail Ms. A is requesting on September 27th. Following this, the first trial concerning Ms. A, Ms. A’s boyfriend, and her older male cousin –which was expected to be on September 22nd originally– also has been postponed for October 13th.
Source: SBS funE via Naver
Translations by: rilanna of JYJ3

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

160831 Easy Park Yuchun, what about Lee Gun Gee • Lee Jung Hyun?



The panel discussion on ‘Reports on Celebrities-related Crimes, What Are Their Problems’ held by Congressman Pyo Chang Won • Center for Media Responsibility and Human Rights. Pyo Chang Won is a Korean politician and criminal psychologicalist. He was a former police officer and a professor at Korea National Police University. 

When you search the following key words, ‘Lee Jung Hyun Recording,’ ‘Lee Gun Hee Video,’ and ‘Park Yuchun Sexual Assault’ by using BIGKINDS, the searching service (for news data) run by Korea Press Foundation, you get respectively the numbers of 145, 48, and 727 of news articles. ‘Park Yuchun Sexual Assault’ has been reported 15 times more than ‘Lee Gun Hee Video’ and 5 times more than ‘Lee Jung Hyun Recording.’ At the portal site Naver, you get the search results of 10 times more on ‘Park Yuchun Sexual Assault’ (3,034) than ‘Lee Gun Hee Video’ (333) and 5 times more than ‘Lee Jung Hyun Recording’ (635).

Why does the media cover some, even unidentified, matters about celebrities without any hesitation while it doesn’t properly cover the power holders such as politicians and conglomerates? On the 30th, Congressman Pyo Chang Won from The Minjoo Party and Center for Media Responsibility and Human Rights co-hosted the panel discussion on ‘Reports on Celebrities-related Crimes, What Are Their Problems’ and addressed what have resulted in the current media environment and tried to seek alternatives.

Are celebrities public figures

To address the problems of reports on celebrities-related crimes, panel discussion participants first examined whether such reports have public interest. Lawyer Han Myung Ok (Law Firm Woowon) said, “Reports on celebrities-related crimes do not have enough elements of public nature to have the purpose of fulfilling the right-to-know of citizens and only serve the means to fulfill simple curiosity, therefore, those cannot be disguised as the name of freedom of expression.”

Prof. Yoon Tae Jin of Graduate School of Communication and Arts at Yonseo Univ. also said, “By disguising the fulfilling of ordinary public’s curiosity as the ‘right-to-know of citizens’, the Korean media has replaced ‘right-to-know of citizens’ by ‘right-to-know (let-know) of reporters’ in reality” and “after all, it is an attempt to expand their right as reporters in the name of citizens’ right-to-know.”

On the other hand, Yoon Jung Joo, Chief of Head Office for Fair Media at Korea Women’s Link presented an opinion that was difficult to conclude whether there was public interest in reports on celebrities-related crimes, with an example of the late Shin Hae Chul who died after the operation performed by Dr. Kang who achieved his fame as ‘show doctor.’

Chief Yoon Jung Joo said, “The operating surgeon of Shin Hae Chul, who died of medical malpractice after having gastric banding surgery, has repeated the same malpractice several times, and because this doctor was an ‘authoritative figure’, well known to the public from his TV appearances, the case could be widely reported and could get enough attention to make an issue (such as the problem of show doctor), but if that was not the case, similar cases to Mr. Shin Hae Chul’s would continue to occur.”

Then, are celebrities indeed public figures? While Prof. Kim Ye Ran of Kwangwoon Univ. (School of Communications) pointed out there is not a concrete definition of ‘public figures’, she suggested that “‘public figures’ and ‘open figures,’ it is possible to roughly explain them.” Prof. Kim said, “In Korea, celebrities are defined as ‘well known open figures such as entertainers or sports stars’ so that it is difficult to state firmly that celebrities are not public figures.”

On the other hand, Prof. Yoon Tae Jin pointed out that in order to be classified as public figures, the following points need to be checked △ whether the existence of themselves, such as president • ministers, directly connects to the public interest of national citizens △ whether they have the resources to control the media coverage related to themselves using the power to affect the media. Prof. Yoon contended, “To have the resources to control the media coverage eventually means to have the power, so whether or not to have the power is the criterion to distinguish public figures from celebrities.”

Lawyer Han Myung Ok quoted the concept of ‘pervasive public figure’ used in the US constitution. Lawyer Han explained ‘pervasive public figure’ can be applied to △ the figures with fame within their community △ the figures who are nationally known △ the figures in charge of prominent roles in the society to which they belong △ the figures who are able to access to the media anytime with their extensive power of influence. He said, “By this concept, heads of conglomerates which have an enormous impact on the national economy can be also included in public figures.”

Easier to chew entertainers than power holders whose crimes have more far-reaching power

The participants in the panel discussion on this day considered the so-called ‘eating-living-ism’ (1) as the reason why the media has reported celebrities-related crimes with more frequencies and with more importance than power holders-related crimes. Besides, they pointed out that the reason is “because celebrities are easier”.

Chief Yoon Jung Joo pointed out that “even when power holders (such as politicians and conglomerates) commit worse crimes than celebrities and (the degree of having impact on the public and) the scale of their crimes are more extensive, those crimes have often been covered up and distorted,” and this is because “celebrities like entertainers and sports stars are easier to chew.”

Chief Yoon Jung Joo also said, “While the competition has become more severe and the media has been busy with pursuing its profits, it has been long before that it threw away its right path to report for public interest” and “it is worthwhile to examine to adopt measures such as Punitive Damages (2) that has been practiced in the United States where the freedom of media is broadly granted and that enables to impose a huge amount of compensation money to prevent the abandonment of the responsibility by the press.”

Congressman Pyo Chang Won who hosted the panel discussion this day also claimed, “If the abuse of freedom of media results in the damages to somebody, actively calling to account and bringing remedy to victims via compensation for damage suits as civil cases need to be enabled” while he emphasized “the freedom of media should be guaranteed limitlessly as is guaranteed by the constitution if our society is a true democratic society.”

And, Prof. Yoon Tae Jin said, “The reason why reports related to Park Yuchun have been produced with outrageously large quantity compared the ones related to Saenuri Party Leader Lee Jung Hyun and Chairman Lee Gun Hee is because the press is desperately pursuing the selling of no. of clicks” and“under the situation that such reports are directly connected to the profits, statement that ‘reporters should follow the ethics of journalism’ can be too idealistic.” Prof. Yoon said, “Eventually, the best way would be to form a culture in which reporters who tend to report sensational news become spontaneously marginalized.”

Moon So Young reporter (Head of the Social News Section 2) from <Seoul Shinmun> who participated in the discussion as a stance from reporters also said, “It is true that the media pursues the profits and, as a result, tends to report about crimes related to celebrities and their private lives with more quantity and more magnitude than power-related corruption scandals of businessman and government officials” and “the media fails to fulfill its responsibility so it should need self-reflection”.

Journalists feeling ‘Chilling Effect’ by the double pressure from power holders claiming human rights

But, reporter Moon pointed out that we also needed to address ‘Chilling Effect’ (the discouragement of the legitimate exercise) on media from power holders. She explained that while both celebrities and power holders can use the means of requesting the arbitration to file lawsuits, it is true that power holders group utilize them more.

As an actual case, Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs Woo Byung Woo, recently suspected for alleged corruption, immediately filed defamation suit against <Choson Ilbo> which had reported on the doubts about the real estate owned by his wife’s family and Blue House has filed suits for several cases against reports related to the President Park right after the Sewol Ho accident including the case of Japan’s <Sankei>. And, the story of the correlation between media criticizing Sam Sung and receiving advertisement has been a matter of old controversy.

Reporter Moon said, “In spite of guaranteeing the freedom of media, such practice of power has generated problems such as imposing the Chilling Effect on the media and self-censorship on reporters.”
Congressman Pyo Chang Won said, “It is a very regretful reality for reporters to mention Chilling Effect (by the pressures from power holders)” and “it needs to make a responsible alternative (as a congressman) to the situation that enables power holders to evade from bringing themselves to justice (by media and the like) by claiming human rights.”

Ha Su Young Reporter hsy0710@pdjournal.com

(1) The value that imposes greatest importance on eating and living (survival), recently used in Korea in many occasions

(2) Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the invidivual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer (Source: Here)

Source: PD Journal
Trans by: Uttunfan via 6002sky

Friday, September 2, 2016

Park Yuchun’s first female accuser to be put on formal trial


Ms. A  –who was the first to accuse singer-and-actor Park Yuchun under the allegation of sexual assault– will be presented to the courts this coming [September] 22nd.
According to a legal professional, the hearing for Ms. A, Ms. A’s male cousin Mr. B, and Ms. A’s boyfriend Mr. C will be held at the Seoul Central District Court at 11:20 am on the coming [September] 22nd.
The police found threatening circumstances, from when Ms. A –accompanied by Mr. B and Mr. C– demanded hundreds of millions of KRW from Park Yuchun, during the process of their investigation. Approximately 1 hundred million KRW between Park Yuchun and Ms. A & gang was apprehended from this but is suspected for attempted extortion, not extortion since they could not discover concrete (physical) evidence.
Source: eToday
Translations by: rilanna of JYJ3