Please do not stop our favourite MGIAG! Mi Ho ah! *wails*

if MGIaG goes off air will you be recapping PK first?

I realy hope they will reach a mutual decision soon. :(

Hmm this reminds me of the insane writer's strike we had here in Los Angeles two years.

It was crazy and I was very heartbroken that some of my favorite shows were shorten and some storyline even had to suffer.

Hopefully they sort it out much faster than Hollywood did because that one just went one for too long. I'll start panicking when MGiaG stops.

Nooo! Not MGIAG please!

i hope they will clear this up fast.. and i mean real fast. I want MGiaG!!!

I am sincerely hoping that Dong Yi will not be affected. Waiting just one week for the show at the stage it is now kills me. It's getting so much more interesting with the new arc.

I hope this all gets resolved fairly. Broadcasting companies need to start taking more responsibility and stop profiting unfairly.

OMG, NOOOOOOO! SBS better settle things fast to ensure that My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho won't get affected!

MGiaG T_T. I hope things get settled with SBS soon.

I hope & pray they settle this dispute the soonest possible time!! Not just because our fave dramas are on the line..but so that the actors, crew & production people get paid what's due them..but more so that their work's "quality" isn't compromised!!!

I hope the strike will end with a good issue. when u are woring hard you are expecting to be paid.

thats why actors and actresses prefer to play in movies rather than in dramas like my Won Bin.

cross fingers for everyone concern in that strike and good luck cos strike means no wages for them so how will they lives?

This is one situation where money does talk, iamgine the money lost to the Network if a rising show like MGIG goes off the air for even a week, it losses momentum and hense a lot of sponsorhsip dollars.

I knew KBS wouldn't let Baker King get off the air.

Hm, for reason I'm not that concerned either.

I just feel like MONEY is such a huge motivator that the companies can't afford not to make a decision quickly.

And that means I'll be able to focus on school knowing that filming has stopped. ^^

Lucky! Baker King will air as usual.

Please not Dong Yi and Playful Kiss.

the use of the gloomy looking miho intentional? ;)

As much as i hate to see my shows get interrupted but i guess workers should be pay on time. So i will wait.

SBS PAY UP YOU CAN'T DENY ME MY MGIAG ADDICTION

WTF, SBS?
Oh well, like everyone else, I just hope this doesn't actually happen and that everything is resolved in due time.

Just look at how fast KBS tend to solved this problem, just coz they have no.1 show in korea in hand, if not i dont think they will settle it as fast as like now,..

What's shocking is that people are still unpaid for dramas which aired in 2009...

I think ££$$ talks and sooner, rather than later, will see MBC and SBS come to an agreement with the union.

What exactly is going to replace the dramas when they go off-air - reruns presumably or some gameshows? Those are hardly going to bring in the ad revenues are they?

hmm, the people who worked hard in bringing us all the dramas SHOULD be paid. it's one think if it was a volunteer work, but these people are probably responsible for a lot of things (food on the table, money for kids education, etc.) so they definitely MUST be paid.

i feel bad for supporting actors too because apparently a lot of them haven't been paid from work they've done since last year.

tsk tsk tsk broadcasting networks.

Hey

I have been a fan of your website since forever. I am from India and love watching Korean dramas, and I watched Que Sera Sera on your recommendation.
Needless to say this, but it's great. Except that it haunts me:
There's this scene in Episode 17 where Eric is chasing Eun Soo after finally seeing her so many years. What is that background music in that scene? It played before in episode 17 when Eric is running towards Eun Soo near the elevator to tell her 'let's run away'.
It also plays in the opening scene of episode 16 when Eric drops his glass on hearing that Eun Soo is expecting/ or when Joon Hyuk asks Eun Soo whose child she's carrying.

Please, please tell me where I can get that music. I'm growing quite desperate for it. :(

wow, only 50-60%? i also wonder when they came to the point where they had enough. although they worked so hard, they got so little out of it. MBC and SBS better straighten up quick and settle things with the strikers!

until then, if MGIAG doesnt air i'll just sit back and watch reruns!! or actually be productive....

ahh noooo! I need my kdrama fix~ le sigh..specially with the start of the school year!

I completely understand. I took will go on strike. These people need to get paid before we get our dose of enjoyment. They have families they need to care for too. I really hope this gets settled soon, for the benefit of not us viewers, but for these workers.

Oh, no! All my Monday-Tuesday dramas are affected! :(
Hopefully, there's a compromise soon that will satisfy both parties.

Misleading. They're not prohibiting anyone to film, the members of such union (which does involve a lot of actors, but all mostly in bit roles up to supporting ones), if they decide to adhere, will simply refuse to shoot - but if they don't at least show up to work, that'll be considered an illegal strike. Same happened last year with MBC's union and Yi San: MBC played hard ball, and basically the union had to walk back in, tail between its legs. Participation was very low, simply because people don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. Even if it doesn't actually feed them all that much.

One broadcaster has threatened to remove any adherent from the script and shoot with whomever is left (SBS, supposedly), and frankly anyone with a significant role in a high rated drama is never going to join the strike - simply because they will lose more than there is to gain, and they're not exactly gasping for air. Get on the broadcasters' bad side, and there will be much more to risk than a few missing payments from last year. Lee Duk Hwa, for instance, is a member of said union. Is he going to get out of Giant simply because a few tens of million from dramas that hardly involved him haven't been paid back?

It does look back on the outside, particularly with journalists painting unrealistic worst-case-scenarios, but it is nothing but a behind the scenes powerplay between the union (which wants more rules), the subcontractors (for lack of a better word) and the broadcasters. Worst come worst, a few of those dramas might spend a few weeks limiting themselves to main characters and very little else, or even be forced to skip one or two episodes (and then compensate with specials and the like), but there is too much money to lose on both ends for anything worse to happen. In short, nothing to worry about, it's just politics.

NNNOOOOOOO!!!!
No no no nooo, It's NOT for "Playful Kiss" and "My Girlfriend Gumiho", pleeaaasseee! (holding my hands)

Oh aigoo, I never thought this is becoming so worse and worse -- it's very horrible, how bummed. =/

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** Oh, thank goodness for my top best drama "Baker King" is on airing, that's goood, good! =) **

NOOOO!!! (shook my head) No No No, please don't do that for "My Girlfriend Gumiho", no way, that can't be!
(holding my hands)

Oh, aigoo! THIS is becoming so worse & bad! How bummed. =/

(Ah, thank goodness for my top best drama "Baker King" keep airing -- Good Good!) =)

I hope this will get solve soon but I AM SO HAPPY THAT SCANDAL IS NOT AFFECTED! I am totally addicted to this new drama ^^

i hope dong yi's not affected since its ratings have been falling recently... as for the rest of the dramas, even if they halt i think they'll have enough momentum to keep their ratings at least the same.

ugh i h8 stirkes...but its okz..they are for a good thing ..right?
but missng out on show...nooo...but oh well..hopefulli everything will be resolved by than :D
-sadie

THIS BITES!

@"Nope": wow...no comment...if you don't like the way JB writes her articles, then don't read them...

and damn. -__-" i mean i know they're going to resolve this because shit, korean public'll go nuts if they carry on with this...but that's just going to make everything harder for the actors later on when they'll have to films for hours on in to make up for missed time :( especially the super competitive ones like dongyi and giant. :.sigh.:

but i'm glad takgoo didn't get affected lol that's the only happy part in this whole story...

I know most of us [maybe not all of us] including myself will be sad if our favourites dramas are not broadcasted as promised, but I hope everyone please stay clam and be patience and be more sensitive to the issue right now.

I'm sure nobody want this to happen but sometimes things just dont go as planned. Neither do the broadcasting stations nor the union would want to disappoint us but sometimes it cannot be avoided.

So let us pray and be patience and be understanding by doing them a favour.

MY favourite drama is Gumiho... very refreshing, comical in their own way and of course the young "couple " played by Seung gi and shin mina.

JB, I wanted to thank you for putting up this news in the first place since we (as in the non-korean interwebz world) get almost none background info on the economics and machinations of the entertainment industry in korea... which is REALLY strange because people are going nuts over The Hallyu Wave.01 & 02 for many years now but almost no one wants to know how it works, the who's who of the "Big Brass" there or the business aspects and effects in making so much noise all over asia. And none of the popular english speaking sites dealing with korean entertainment products put out any info/research in this respect regularly.

It's fascinating that people seem to love and follow the trends and shows the korean market delivers and imo a lot of them want to be just entertained, thankyouverymuch, nothing more and def. not anything which could take away from the allure and charm of their favorite drama/band/idol.

I'd love to read more about these topics in the future, so even if it seems to be a hassle to sift through news which might not appeal to the mass of your readers or you yourself are not well-versed in/have little experience with, please don't disregard them.

Again, thank you for posting info about the strike and trying to find out the gist of it for us.

@Nope, I think your comment is quite informative since it implies that korean broadcasters are already too powerful for unions or people who'd like to get justice by getting compensated for work they did, which IS STILL their right according to working laws all over the world. How else did they come up with the $ ~3,7 mil.?
But the tone of your comment was kinda harsh and accusing especially considering the nature of this site.
If you know about the infrastructure of the korean entertainment industry, and inform yourself via news, I'm pretty sure there are quite a number of international readers who'd like to read/hear/discuss about such topics. But I wouldn't know where exactly you could publish those kind of news/articles... you might ask around other high traffic sites like allkpop, omona, soompi, etc.

I'm having flash backs to the writer's strike in the US. That was disastrous if you weren't an established reality tv show, or a soap opera (which films at least 3 months in advance).

This sounds like if it got that far it could be even worse since this seems like general everyone is in the same union. I hope it doesn't come to that though.

On a shallow note though, I'm glad Sungkyunkwan Scandal won't be affected. It's my new crack. ^_^

I hope this gets resolved quickly. I only just recently discovered how much I enjoy these shows. For that reason I can honor and respect the decision of those in need to do what is necessary to get the funds owed them for their honest labor. Without the funds necessary to pay the artists who have invested their time, talent, and imagination to creating these shows we love so much then they would all come to a screeching halt.

thank you for explaining the situation :)