how is that professional to sign a contract with an actress and tell her that she will film 5 days a week and after that to keep her on set 46 hours in 2 days with 2 hours break? when the road home is at least half an hour?

how is professional when they deliver the scripts on Thursday while the filming must end until Monday?

how is professional to make scenes only with her when the system in klala land is that usually the main lead doesn't have more than 40 mins/ episode while she is in 60 mins from 70 mins?( remember they promised at the beginning that they will solve the schedule) isn't impossible to avoid scenes with her - they have subplots that they forgot about them ( the ancient book - in some episodes is on in other is off, the SoKor spies - sometimes they have scenes, sometimes they aren't - they just forgot about the story - ppl if u don't use them at least kill them, they start threads that don't have beginning nor end etc).... but hell yesss let's keep MW in every scene possible

I know that usually for the main lead it ends in the hospital with IVs, but this time is too much even for klala land - 2 hours break - like ppl go take a shower and come back- u know in 48 hours some ppl need sleep

I don't get the PD's scheme - ok he is the boss, but while she announced him that she won't come - why to expect a woman who won't come? why did he keep the whole crew on set? when he could:
1. film the other scenes (which other scenes coz all of them have HMW??),
2. talk to her management and ask for a precise schedule to start the shootings - I bet after low ratings he started yelling at her

She and her management had a choice
1 to risk an accident like everyone else( I already know that Yoo Seung Ho, Park Shin Hye and HSH shoot with broken bones)
2 to try to stop them on killing her ( they try this but without success)

Yoo Seung Ho started in this industry like the 3 princesses above: cuter than a basket full of kittens but with skipped classes, without a childhood and with some broken bones and maybe ( I don't think it is his case) some plastic surgeries to appeal more to the public

Please believe me when I tell that the norm is not more than 40 min for a main lead in a kdrama episode... while the other ppl can have up to 25 min/episode and this time SMW is overboarding with everything including the chaos on set

There's a follow-up news release over at AllPop - this one states that it is her health (read: lack of sleep) and her contract is being violated by this ridiculous "live-shoot" schedule - girl is getting maybe 2 hours sleep? A lot of people are screaming that all the production is suffering, from actors to go-fers and that she should just put up and shut up and get back to work.

This live-shoot method is going to wind up killing someone - apparently the management companies need a high-profile actor to just drop dead on set. Maybe then this archaic method of filming will undergo a total revamp.
Frankly, I hope she barricades herself into her trailer and logs herself 20 hours of sleep!
You go, girl!
:)

The only thing I can fault her for is believing naively that K-ent would take the contract provisions at face value and think she wouldn't be shamed into going far beyond the terms of her contract. The industry (and by extension, the whole culture) should be ashamed that its contracts, never mind its word, means apparently nada.

As for that day in question, again from what I've heard (that's my qualifier here, heh), she'd given prior notice to the production that she wouldn't be available.

I don't know. I wonder what all the naysayers would say if - purely hypothetical scenario here - she were to end up somehow seriously debilitated or dead.

Diva or not, I'm with Han Ye Seul on this one on principle. The system really must change.

When the stuff about SMW came up...I was kinda on her side saying that there must have been a reason for her not showing up...but then I saw allot of people say that she is originally very rude. In all honesty I think both parties are at blame, Han Ye Seul is at blame because she wasn't very professional about it...and she can't just decide to not show up at a shoot, apparently they said she did miss a shoot on Aug 12.

I also think that the other party is at blame because of the fact of the live shooting...and in all honesty i can't figure out why they would publicize her not showing up. They def made her a scapegoat, maybe to even get more ratings...? and I agree that Ye Seul is in like 90% of the episode...she's in every scene seriously.

But in the end she is also a different person than others...she doesn't put herself at risk like some of these actresses (Park Shin Hye) who after getting in accidents still decide to come at set, and i don't think that she isn't hardworking...because in all her other dramas/films there was never news about her skipping shoots, i just think that she's someone who knows what she wants and how to get it....and knows how to speak up for herself. That's how I see it. But in this industry...being someone of that persona make you a B-I-T-C-H.

I just think in the end....there is always something going on behind the scenes that we won't know.

@Leona -
Well, it's not like someone held a knife to her throat to make her sign it. She knew what she was signing up for. I understand that it's a tough schedule. I'm not saying I agree with live-shoot, but she agreed to that.

My problem with what she did is how she handled it.

She didn't enter a hospital to get treatment.
She was late over and over again and left early without word.
She made them wait 9 hours before she showed up.
She has thrown fits before. My close friend's mother works in the industry and has told me this. How is the production company to know whether or not it's simply a fit or if she's serious?
She basically screwed over the entire production which will lose tons of money which causes those staffs and actors who need the money for their families to lose out.
What are they supposed to do, just go home and forget about it? How do you know they didn't film those scenes and have time left over? As for her screen time, did you actually watch every episode and time how much she was on screen?

They weren't the ones who signed a contract to accept that behavior.

Her "management" didn't do anything. She personally phoned them saying she wouldn't show up anymore.

Her "management" is saying health reasons because they don't want to make her look bad.

If she was really unhealthy, why wouldn't her management have told them that she was previously? Why would she wait til AFTER the reports came out to report that she wasn't doing well?

And risk an accident? How is that going to be affected in anyway? They can find a driver almost anywhere in Seoul. It's just a phone call away.

As for injury or needing an IV or being overtired, why didn't she enter a hospital to get treatment? Does that really sound like someone who cares so much about her health?

People talk about them "dying", but who's fault is that. Even if they aren't filming, their schedule would be booked full of other schedules anyway because they want to make money. Again, she signed the contracts, I don't feel sorry for her.

@SM - So treating your staff rudely? Constantly sending people on errands? Constantly talking down to people? Getting angry over small things and blowing them out of proportion? Talking disrespectfully to elders? Acting like the world revolves around you?
That's not rude? That's just being "different"?

@ Laeha

can you please tell me when she did all of those......like sending her staff off for errands, being rude to elders, and her constantly talking down people? I'm actually just curious...because I've been reading articles about her...and haven't read she did anything like that on set o.O.

And I said it before that it was very unprofessional of her to just leave and do what she want's....but that's how i see it....only being unprofessional. I don't know about rude. That's what I meant when I said she handles things in her own way. Unlike others, who can be seen as professional, like Park Shin Hye, who went to work even after being in an accident.