Cube Entertainment has revealed that Na In-Woo has been offered the lead male role in currently airing KBS2 drama series “River Where The Moon Rises” co-starring Kim So-Hyun. Na In-Woo would replace actor Ji Soo and play lead male character On Dal. Currently, Na In-Woo is “positively considering” the offer.
Broadcast station KBS has not officially announced that actor Ji Soo has dropped out of the drama series, but, with Cube Entertainment’s announcement, his departure seems all but certain. The drama series itself has already filmed 95% of its scenes and 6 episodes has already aired, yet KBS is working hard behind the scenes to prepare for the lead actor’s replacement. Ji Soo’s departure is caused by bullying accusations first made against him on March 2, 2021 via online community website Nate Pann. The accuser wrote Ji Soo was a member of a bully group in middle school that bullied him with physical and verbal violence. More people responded with similar accusations against Ji Soo for his past bullying behavior. On March 4, 2021, Ji Soo posted a handwritten apology in which he apologized to the people that suffered from his actions and admitted his past behavior was inexcusable.
Margaret Serva
Why is this bullying issue just coming up now? No disrespect to the victims back during middle school. But you are all now 28-ish… Why would he loose his job in River Where the Moon Rises for behavior that happened when you were all 13-14 yrs old…? I understand he did take responsibility for his actions & bad unacceptable behavior. Again, I do not mean to dismiss or under-estimate the pain of what his victims went thru…. but is was 14 yrs ago…. It is unfortunate the people that were victimized could not of dealt with this in a more mature fashion instead of turning their issue over to the gossip headlines/ online community website Nate Pann. And why is KBS so quick to throw the towel in on Ji Soo for something that happened a long time ago… ? Again, no disrespect to the victims here. I do not condone violence in any way. However, in this situation, I think KBS & Cube Entertainments could of handled this situation alot better.
I really like Ji Soo as an actor. He has alot of great skills & talent in his craft. Sad to hear he was such an scared, insecure “Dik”, as most bullies are cowards, when he was a teen ager. I hope he has grown & come to terms with his insecurities as a grown man. I hope he has left that kind of behavior behind him. Especially in relationships. To find out he is physically abusive to women (in relationships) would deter me from ever watching him again in any thing….. With that said, I my heart goes out to the people that were abused back then, I hope you all can heal & get past those scares. As well, Ji Soo , I do appreciate your work & talent . I hope you have learned from this & can get past this as well. And hope to see you soon in a new drama or something…something… very soon.
tsevca
Agreed. Either it was serious case of criminal behaviour – then deal with it by law, or it was stupid teen thing and then it shouldn’t be praised, but fire him over it? Is he never allowed to work anymore, because of his behaviour as a child? Rapists in this industry were forgiven. I’m no huge fan of his, but this is overboard.
I agree and understand, when metoo perpetrators use their fame and position to hurt their victims, that then they should be cut out of the world that gives them the opportunity to hurt more people, but this is a different case.
And on the other side, I get that this is tough business and chances don’t come knocking daily, but is this really a good choice for Na’s big break? No matter how good he does, there would still be people that don’t give him a chance, because of their dislike of the recast, simply out of principle. And he might be on the other side one day for something else.
Kathy Langley
I do hate bullying and it should never be tolerated. However, people change and most of the time for the better. This young man was trying to change his life and now people are bringing up the issue of bullying which was so long ago. The victims could also not except his apology. So now the victims have turned bullies. They have bullied A young man out of his livelihood. Like I said I do not like bullying whether it’s present tense or past tense. But I do like forgiveness and letting people go on with their lives. I am sorry that this is happened to Jisoo. Hopefully this will get behind him and he can continue with his career. I’m extremely proud of Nam Joo Hyundai for continuing to stand by his friend. That is a tough thing to do these days and it shows great character in Nam Joo Hyundai.
fiordaliso
I love how you all commenting that “they should have delt with it in a mature way” and what’s a mature way? in front of a judge? for bullying? where do you live peopel, on Mars? spending money on an lawyer against a millioner actor?? I would have done exactly like them . Shame them now so that they say sorry for past behaviour and then they can continue with other things. Like this young people that dream of becoming famous will think throughly during school if they can really do what they want. And NO people, not all bullies are scared people full of insecurities, you all have watche too many movies……most of them do it onlu because they know they can.
Sheva diamond
Personally ah don’t feel good about the replacement,buh if he did truly bully people physical and they have spoken up causing him to lose the role ON DAL in the movie”RIVER.WHERE.THE MOON.RISES,then i must confess that the VICTIMS and the actor JI SOO are both even now,so let the hate and pain be bygones now,okay???