omonatheydid | Jang Geun-suk gets tied up in a lawsuit

Actor Jang Geun-suk is getting sued by the production company Pro Draft Media, responsible for the MBC drama, “The National Culinary School,” which failed to release due to funding issues back in 2007. Pro Draft Media paid Jang Geun-suk and others, a partial advanced payment before filming was officially supposed to begin. Production, however, never happened, so Pro Draft media are now asking that they cough it all back up. Obviously, Jang Geun-suk and his agency are refusing to give back the money they received since it wasn’t their fault that they were unable to film the drama.

A representative of the actor stated,

We had to forfeit working on other projects we were offered because of this drama. We did receive an advance payment as part of the promised amount, but once payment of the remaining amount started to be pushed back, we asked for a written statement from the production company stating, ‘even if a problem arises in terms of the production of the drama, we will not cause any problems in terms of the amount we paid out in advance’ and currently have it on file. The production company continuously told us to wait a little longer when asked why filming for the drama wasn’t getting started. We told their lawyer about the written statement and have been told that the issue would be looked into. There’s nothing we have done wrong, so we’re not worried about this lawsuit.

From the looks of it, Jang Geun-suk and his agency is probably going to win the case, and Pro Draft Media is just going to have to suck it up and accept their loss. On a lighter note, the actor recently finished filming for his new movie, “Itaewon Murder Case,” which will hit theatres sometime this coming September.

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