She has a habit of digging her own grave! I hope that her PR company is good at damage control.

Aside from my saying I don't like her one bit, I shall have no further comment.

A lot of stars drop project when their filming schedule gets push back, its not totally her fault because the production company keeps pushing back the filming schedule, a artists need to work to make a living.

Lee may have think to film coffee in dec and then finish around feb to then film ripley in march when she first decide to be in coffee but then they pushed the schedule, so she needs to drop one project, what is wrong with that?

It's business. Nothing more, nothing less...

Really though? If they stopped casting her then the "runaway bride LDH" problem would be solved for good...just sayin'

I don't care. I still like her, and will be watching Ripley.

Javabeans, you must really hate LDH to put so much emphasis on it being her and her management's faults, when it seems pretty clear this lawsuit doesn't have much merit.

How about Kang Ji Hwan who terminated his contract with his agency prior to expiry date, -but since his is JB n GF sweetheart, so his reputation here is still 'angel'.She is not the only one out there, who drop their project.
To us Malaysian, this is nothing, we love if the atresses know how to defend their right. Korean is so different.
Actually, I googled a lot about her, ao far only this forum, say a lot of bad thing about her-may I know why?

I always like LDH. Not sure why so many people hate her and always find anything and everthing to blame it on the actress.

I don't see why everyone is being so rude about this post. God forbid someone who runs a site about Korean dramas make a post to inform people about a current event of a well known actress, who is soon appearing in a new drama.

I've only ever seen LDH in My Girl, so I don't have much opinion besides I liked her in that, but even if someone does dislike her, it's not a punishable offense. Be glad JB is bothering to inform people at all, considering the crap I'm sure she has to look at in the comments every time LDH is even mentioned in a post. Sheesh.

on the other hand Yoon Eun Hye has the reputation that she is loyal till the end with a movie or drama and this has a reverse : we can't see her in as many movies or drama she could do ... if she would drop more easily conflicted schedules

another busy guy is Jung Gyu Woon coz he filmed about 3 dramas in a row without pause (I think some of them overlapped - at least Dr Champ and Sign Sign aired last ep in 10 March ...Romance town held first reading in last week of March)

on the other hand other ppl filmed a movie and a drama in the same time - but rarely exactly the main lead - when we know the killer schedule they have (Sign Edited last episode while airing (Yo Seung Ho filmed Blind in the same time with Flames of ambition...etc javabeans knows better look for the guys and girls in site)

if the agreement was verbal ... and her management dropped the movie coz of delays - financially won't cost a thing- but her image is tarnished once again

I still hope to see a good anti-heroine in k-lala land (I loved MiShil to bits, Lady Choi (Dae Jang Geum is unforgettable,
Yoon Na Young (Flames of jailbait), Eugene in baker King weren't bad and Royal Family galz were forgettable (sorry crew)

however Lee Da Hae was a scammer another time in My Girl and she was pretty good at it - only that Hong sister love too much their main leads to make them bad to the bone - even Foxy Hunter - who was supposed to be the baddest of them all - he was kind and lovable

however Micky Yoochun promised us to deliver an subjective answer rather than an objective one as Lee Sun Joon did in SKKS
so subjective Lee Sun Jun loosing all for LDH's sake - with her actual image.. I wonder how far they will take it

btw Baby Faced beauty doesn't have exactly an anti-heroine - but she ain't an angel :P - and Yo In Na has a lovable bitchy char

Umm, it seems like JB is merely reporting the news of the lawsuit, and that this lawsuit won't be good for her already dwindling public image.

Why hate the messenger, folks?

poor javabeans. :/ sorry you have to put up with this crap.

business decisions aside, i really like lee da hae's chutzpah, just generally from interviews and such. her character is right up my street. all this drama ain't good for her career though, someone should tell her to be careful about project-dropping.

Is it just me or is this type of lawsuit way more common in Korea than in the USA? I feel like people are dropping in and out of projects all the time in the USA without anyone suing anyone. Maybe I'm just not plugged in to the right sources, though.

Wow, girl can't catch a break.

Ok, the numbers are kind of confusing to me. They are requesting 360 billion won, more than the budget of the movie (10 billion won)? Lol Does that mean this is their way to insure the budget for the movie (and then some): try getting it from Lee's management even after she's already left the project. Smart move on their part. Couldn't find funding? Just sue for it! /sarcasm

poor lee dahae..always hit with these bad problems. have strength and get over them.
lee dahae fighting!!!

can't wait for ripley. watching it for lee dahae and the other actors' wonderful acting. kind of worried about yoochun's acting, but hopefully, he can hold up with these seniors.

Sounds like Ocean Film could be exploiting her image of half-a**ing through potential projects. It made sense when Koh Hye-jung was hit with this kind of lawsuit because she was actually a deal-breaker for production. But LDH? They're just bullies now:P

If I were a citizen of korea, I will tell all the people I know and they will tell all the people they know(or start a revolution) about not watching any film produced by that OCEAN FILM or whatever it is. Don't they have any funds to continue the project so they are getting all the money they can get from Lee Da Hae's company DBM??? OMG,,,

I just want to slap that president of the OCEAN FILM with all the MONEY I have...

I am not a big fan Of Lee Da Hae but this is too much..... They are asking lee for compensation of damages two times the salary they have given her???

Try to do these crap in AMERICA and we will kick your butt MR. PRESIDENT.

Kind of a pity she has so much scandals going on these past years. I really miss seeing her in dramas like My Girl. Whether it's her fault, her management fault or Ocean Film trying to wring out money, LDH is still the one getting the most bad rep with a lawsuit stuck with her.

Hope things will go better for her in the future. A rom-com could do that, maybe? Or am I hoping too much?

Did you guys read the article properly? Jb is not bashing LDH, just commenting on the fact that the lawsuit isn't doing too much for LDH's bad rep as an actress who frequently drops projects, which is true.
Anyway it sounds like its both parties faults to me.who wants tO stick to a delayed project when there's another one being offered and guaranteed to start? Can't blame LDH myself, but if she signed a contract, you are sort of screwing over the production even more. This is gonna get messy

my rxn: haha.

I'm being shallow but her nose job was a horrible choice. I have a nose fetish and Korean entertainment business is the worst love for a person with nose fetish. Seeing these perfectly nice noses destroyed on a daily basis. It was so cute and CUTEE WHY YOU??? WHYYYYY WAAAAE WAAAAAAAAAAAEEEE. As if Michael Jackson wasn't traumatising enough, the amount of destroyed Korean celeb noses I've seen, its surpassed Jackson stage. All their previous noses are so perfect too.

I'm done.

I think that she made the right choice since the movie has been delayed and she has no gurantee that it will be done.

LOL. I'm sorry, but the commenters who went off track and started bashing JB sounded more comical than anything else. I don't know what they were reading. I've only watched LDH in My Girl and since that was the 2nd drama I ever watched, I loved everything about it. I don't think any court would be dumb enough to award the Prod Co that much in damages.

I'm still looking forward to Ripley.^_^

sounds to me that The film company laying the law suit to try and get the attention on their film that they couldn't do by normal promotion ie not raising the agreed upon funding figure. Actually that is a very good clause to put into the informal contract, so many Korean films just died because the promising money never appears and the actors have end up with wasting three months or more of their time. So the film company just using LDH name to promote their film, it hardly the first time someone blackened anther name for publicity after all.

JB is just sharing a report so what's wrong with that? LDH is such a prominant figure n her drama is coming up that's y JB is sharing this.

For goodness sake, JB has been all nice to setup this free site and you ppl have to bash her. If one day she closed her site due to this, it will be such a great loss! Pls stop doing this kind of childish act.

Anyway it's her site and she has all the right to choose what to post. Respect her, if you don't like what you read, leave. Simple as that.

Personally I don't think LDH is at fault since her mgmt team shld b the one making the decision. So I doubt Korean ppl will react negatively to her.

So she already with new mgmt. I thought she still with J.Tune company. I'm so behind all of this.

LAY OFF JAVABEANS
sincerely, a Lee Da Hae fan.

the post is merely reporting the facts and nothing more, and even if javabeans dissed LDH she can very well do so since this is HER blog, she can write whatever she wants--- if peoples' panties get all bunched up over some anti-LDH article they can just SKIP IT, simple as that.

don't jeopardize our awesome source of recap goodies by angering javabeans.

I thought she was till with J.Tune Ent as well =/

LDH's recent troubles are the elephant in the room.

When talking about LDH they can't be ignored. To do so would scream "bias" in and of itself.

Read the facts (both sides of the story, as it stands now, are detailed in JB's post) and make your own informed decisions.

I think it'd be an incredible turn around for her (potentially, as an actress) if she embraces her role as an anti-heroine. If she plays it with the right measure of deviousness and sympathy, it would be an amazing sight. I havent seen her in many non-mainstream projects (which tend to demand artists to project one note sometimes) so I dont know if she has the acting to do it, but that would be fun.

Unfortunately, sometimes people tend to confuse the actress with the character which IMO can be a problem for her in this LOL :D

I'll admit that Lee has made some pretty bad press during the past years since My Girl, but she is a good actress and her crying scenes are some of the best out there.

I think all the problems that she'd encountered is just a matter of poor PR on the side of her management team.

No matter what, I'm excited for Ridley and can't wait to see what she will deliver. Kinda sad to not see her since Chuno and totally excited that she's coming back soon on the small screen.

I hope all her problems will be solve soon! LDH, fighting!!!

LOL!

these days, i'd read anything about LDH

thanks jb! pls dont' be discouraged with these neg comments..keep these wiritings coming :)

I don't call my self a LDH fan..but I did love her in My Girl..I don't care what she does bad or good...just wanted to enjoy the K-lalala-land

Whatever Guys ,
I Love Javabeans
and so are Dramabeans :>

:D I think it's good that a lot of people come here to bash on LDH. More hits for JB. :D

ON a more serious note.... wow, the korean film industry is soooooo weird. O_O It seems like they are so tough to their actors and actresses.

I'm going to take a break from k-drama and watch some lakorns for a while. :D But will definitely come to this site for recaps. Hopefully Ripley will be one of those recaps. :(

i don't see what wrong to drop out the project if the delay of the project... it<s not her to way for them... suck

What utter bullshit. It's obvious that they just want to make some money outta LDH.
For those people who say JB isn't bashing on LDH, just look at her past articles. She wrote about how increasingly annoying LDH's cuteness was ("ooh puppies") And though she doesn't say it outright, she always has a venomous undertone whenever she writes an article involving LDH.
But I can't blame her. After all, she has opinions too. However, I find it ridiculous for people to bash on LDH just because they worship JB. (Not that all LDH-haters are JB-worshippers, of course, just a few)
I must say, JB is a terrific writer though. She exemplifies such unique charm through her words, so it's difficult to disagree with her.

It's a pity how LDH turned out. She was so well loved and now she's judged for everything she does.

If's she blunt, she's considered a bitch. If she drops out of a project to do another (which is not so out of the ordinary for actors and actresses) she's considered an irresponsible, bratty flake.

Why can't people judge her by the content of her acting? She's an amazing actress, no doubt. And I think that's the only thing we should judge about her, because that's the only thing we know for sure about her. We don't know her personality in real life, so who are we to judge?

I don't know, just my 2 cents.

Oh my dear bee.
Are you saying you're a javabeans fanatic? I can totally see that (; you posted the SAME thing twice, only you made your second post wordier.
Lay off the honey babe, we see your point.

well, to me the key in all this is "...a simple informal contract". let's see the contract and we can judge whether it's informal or simple lol.

honestly, db management, why would you give anyone a written commitment, informal or otherwise? how long have you managed your client, again? methinks LDH needs to get another management agency asap.

Why do I have a feeling that the anti JB on this thread are a part of LDH's club. Minimizing the damage on their star it seems.

Ah well, fair enough. With a drama coming soon all this unnecessary attention is not needed.

Too bad for Yoo Chun to be paired off with her. Is it too late to get him out of there, PLEASE..............E!!!

BTW, a contract, formal or informal, still a contract.

Here's a suggestion JB & GF. Don't recap RIPLEY when it comes out.

Let the others do it.

Just my 2 cents.

I actually feel really bad for Lee Da-hae. Let's hope news of this lawsuit doesn't affect her moral in filming Ripley, because I want to see a good drama out of it, so himneja!

I don't expect JB or GF to recap it though. Actually, I'd be surprised if they do, doesn't seem like their cup of tea based on the premise alone.

Yes, i'm new here and also to kdrama, but I always drawn to whenever articles on Dahae appeared, don't know why, maybe it is fun because I can see the reaction from her fans and anti-I'm more like a casual fans.

BUT still a big question, why JB and GF still want to write about LDH? not about others in Ripley-none so far on Micky.Is SM Entertainment forbid both of you to write about him.

lord, the passive-aggressive polite way that people are being SO snarky on this thread is giving me a headache! i don't even like LDH, but i think posts about her generally attract this kind of attention and GEEZ, i would feel so bad if i was on her team or if i was HER and i read this. because it's not just stuff about HER anymore, it's prompting people to go up against each other. wut da hale.

Stop bashing LDH people. She is a good acctress. If she wanted to drop the project, OK, no problem. To the hell with that movie. Why do you always have to talk bad about LDH? Why dont you ever talk bad for another famous star? All the scandal that I have seen here are about LDH.

LMAO this post
butthurt fans crying, thx for the pity party y'all
oh such a delicious sunday

and LDH, gurrl, look at your life look at your choices

thanks jb.

"simple informal contract" is not a WRITTEN CONTRACT meaning NO LEGAL BINDING , NO SIGNATURE written,
simple english language to understand.