Has Park Shi Hoo's Scandal Hurt Yoon Eun Hye?

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Yoon Eun Hye's fans have expressed their opinion about the actress starring in a film with Park Shi Hoo. They don't like it. And her recently established official fan club let her agency, J Army Entertaiment, know exactly how they felt about it.

Her official fan club in Korea, known as Amazing, issued a release saying that fan club administrators do not approve of the actress' intention to star in a Korean-Chinese film with actor Park Shi Hoo.

The film, titled "Love After Love" would be Park's first Korean production since he was involved in alleged sexual assault scandal early in 2013. The scandal happened when a rookie actress claimed that the couple had intimate relations when she was too drunk to protest. He claimed the relations were consensual.

While the charges against Park Shi Hoo were eventually dropped, the scandal has affected his career. Although he enjoyed success with his pre-scandal role in the 2012 drama "Cheomdamdong Alice" he has not worked in the Korean entertainment industry since. He considered a comeback role in the drama "Golden Cross" but netizen reaction was so negative that it may have influenced his decision to decline.

Despite negative reaction in Korea, "Love After Love" has attracted investors in China and Japan, where Park Shi Hoo remains popular. During the last year, he appeared in a Chinese film titled "Fragrance." The film about a Chinese woman's romance with a Korean man did well at the Chinese box office.

Yoon Eun Hye is also popular in China thanks to her roles in the hit dramas "Coffee Prince" and "Goong" and she has expressed interest in working in China. The film will be her first acting project since last year's fantasy comedy "Future's Choice" with co-stars Jung Yong Hwa and Lee Dong Gun. She has been cast as Park Shi Hoo's love interest in "Love After Love."

Yoon Eun Hye posted a note on her fan café that said she would not take it lightly if fans insulted anyone associated with her. Admins of the fan café were not happy with her comment, feeling that their concern about her casting was not being taken seriously.

But a J Army Entertainment agency representative told Star News that the comment left by the actress had nothing to do with the casting issue and was not directed at her fans in general. It was meant to be a response to specific messages of slander and hurtful personal attacks. It had to do with cyberbullies, they said, and was in no way directed at her fan club in general.

As of Oct. 31, the actress had not withdrawn from the film.

The film, which is due to be released in the summer of 2015, is set to start production in November after casting is confirmed.

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