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| "Clean Up" director Kwon Man-ki and the movie's star Yoon Ji-hye. Naver |
By Ko Dong-hwan
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| Yoon Ji-hye on the 'Clean Up' poster. Naver |
The Korean Academy of Film Arts said Monday it "understands with heavy heart what she said about her agony during the filming in 2017" and "regrets having caused her moral hazard and inconvenience." It also admitted the importance of safety measures and abiding by the law at filming locations, which Yoon had complained about.
But the school defended itself, saying: "There were the director and production crew who didn't have the same views as those of Yoon at the time" and "we must respect every crew's voice."
The school is based in Busan and has a separate facility in Seoul's Mapo district. It admitted its graduate film "had a low-budget and inexperienced staff."
The school said it will prepare an auditing committee with outside inspectors to investigate the problems Yoon raised.
It said it "will check whether the problems were the result of minor errors caused by a few members of the production crew or an outcome of more deep-rooted, systemic errors of production management."
Yoon, who debuted in 1998, played a lead role in "Clean Up" that opens in Korean theaters on Dec. 19. The movie was directed by Kwon Man-ki and distributed by Gram Films.
She said in a social network post that she had joined the movie out of vocational passion, not for the money. But the month-long filming was mismanaged in so many ways she felt her safety was threatened and she was embarrassed.
