Two Sexy Korean Actress Caught Up in Controversy

Sexy actress Lee Tae-im reportedly cursed and yelled at singer Yewon while she was shooting a reality TV show MBC's ‘Tutoring Different Generations’
This episode was filmed on February 24th at Jeju Island, and Lee Tae Im caused filming to be halted after she swore at Kim Ye Won for no apparent reason. Lee Tae Im then stepped off the program, and it was accepted by the program team.

Lee Tae Im’s agency initially claimed that the actress had left the program because of health issues. But the truth eventually got out, and Lee Tae Im bore the brunt of the controversy. The program team of ‘Tutoring Different Generations’ said in the aftermath that Lee Tae Im’s scenes will be edited out from the episode, and the broadcast confirmed their statement.
Lee Tae Lim had apologized to the singer but she still got harsh criticism because she is ‘a sexy star with vague identity’.
Most celebrities overcome a crisis by showing their professionalism in the field, but in case of sexy stars, this do not work.

When Lee Tae-im filmed other varity show SBS 'Law of jungle', she received criticisms for revealing her body too much which did not go with the flow of the show. It’s hard to recover her image when she wastes her sexy image.

Clara has shown how a sexy star could plummet in an instant. She garnered much attention with her glamorous body, and actively pursued her career on music and acting. However, she did not achieve any remarkable result.
Recently clara has filed a suit to negate her exclusive contract with Polaris Entertainment, citing sexual harassment from their CEO through text messaging via Kakao Talk.
As a result, Polaris Entertainment had released the text messages to the public to prove their CEO’s innocence, as this accusation is hurting his image.
On top of this, her small and big lies kept snowballing. Now ,she is branded as a ‘liar’ and Entertainment Management Corporation put a restriction on her activity.

Initially they got more attention with their appearance and sexy marketing rather than their actiing career and two actress are paying the price for it.

First thing that comes to mind when think of South Korea.

Recent survey revealed that 'K-pop' was the first thing that comes to mind when think of South Korea.

Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange(KOFICE) conducted survey of 5600 people in 14 different countries and 17% of respondents chose K-pop as image which represent Korea.
No.2 is Korean food with 10.5% and No.3 is IT with 10.4%.
IT was the first place on the same survey a year ago.

Also, 43% of respondents picked Korean food as the most popular Korean cultural content followed by music (36.4%), fashion (35.3%), movies (29.7%), drama (28.2%), games (26.9%).

How much animal actors get paid in Korean drama, movies and TV shows?

"Three Meals a Day," is a South Korean outdoor cooking-reality show with self-sufficient organic life which airs on tvN.
Ratings with more than 6% for a Korean cable television channel are very rare and Three Meals a Day has been getting more than 6 % in ratings since third episode was aired.
Its leading roles are  actor Cha Seung-won and Yoo Hae-jin but various animals like Sanche (dog), Bee(cat), Rodriguez (chicken)are drawing viewer's attention.

In addition to "Three Meals a Day", there are many TV varity shows with animals as lead role such as SBS 'TV Animal Farm' and MBC 'Sunday Night-Animal's'

To cut to the point, some untrained animals(Three Meals a Day)are not getting paid at all because these animals are just pet of staff and trained animals which appeared on various TV shows and dramas usually get paid US$100~500 per episode.

SBS 'TV Animal Farm' is animal reality show which focuses on animal news and stories and quite a bit on animal welfare.
Many animals appeared with a variety of stories on different episodes for more than 15years.
However, the crew of program does not pay money directly to animal owners.
Commonly they only give gift certificate worth of US$100~1000 as a sort of reward to animal owner for their cooperation and DVD containing their animals's part in show.

When you watch television, or a movie, and see a monkey folding laundry, a dog leaping a bike, or a horse opening a gate, you're seeing the results of hours of work between the animal and an animal trainer. It's tempting to assume that the animal or his owner is earning big bucks because the animal is in a production, but usually this isn't the case. In fact, some animal actors and their trainers earn less than the owners spend, making animal acting more of a hobby.

10-year-old Labrador Retriever, Dal-yi was named as one of TV's highest paid animal actors in Korea.
She first played Maumi in the 2006 film “Hearty Paws,” which was also her screen debut.
In Maumi 2, the sequel to Hearty Paws, Dal-yi plays a devoted mother dog who embarks on a journey to find her puppy, who is kidnapped by villains.
In “Maumi 2,” she was known to paid more than US$ 50,000.

"Kill me Heal me" craze are getting intense among Korean fans and drama lovers.

Even though MBC's drama "Kill Me, Heal me" only left 2 episodes before series finale, Kill me Heal me craze are definitely getting more intense among Korean fans.

It's a romance drama about a rich heir suffers from dissociative identity disorder, and enlists the help of a first-year medical resident to heal him by killing off each personality one by one.

Pairing of Ji Sung and Hwang Jung Eum, their chemistry was great in drama and 'Kill me, heal me' syndrome among fans even has shed new light on the two actors's previous dramas including “Secret.”,surprise-hit melodrama which they first appeared together in 2013.

Also “Kill Me, Heal Me” has joined the ranks of dramas like “Master's Sun” and “My Love From The Stars” in spawning numerous parodies.
Hwang Jung Eum was ranked No.1 on the internet real-time hit list due to a fan-made comic parody which combined the look of a her from previous drama "High Kick Through the Roof" and "Kill Me, Heal Me”.

'Kill Me, Heal Me' OST has been getting a lot of attention lately as well.
The intriguing theme song “Auditory Hallucination”(Feat. NaShow) continues to remain on the top 10 songs real time charts, since its release on January 14.
Official OST album for 'Kill Me, Heal Me' which was released on March 5th made online music chart top 20 as only drama ost on the list.

Korea's favorite brands survey 2015

On 5th, according to the survey of 1,700 South Koreans aged 13 and older, conducted by Gallup Korea on the subject of the Korean's most favorite brand, 46% of respondents chose Cass as their favorite beer brand, followed by Hite(29%), OB (10%), Capri (2%), Max-Dry d (1.4%), Kloud (1.3%) and so on.

As for ramen brands, Shin Ramen(43%) was most popular, followed by Samyang ramen (13%), An Sung Tang Myun, Jin ramen (each 9%), Neoguri ramen (7%), sesame ramen (1.3%).

For a luxury brand, Chanel ranked first (17%), next came Gucci (16%), Louis Vuitton (13%), Prada (7%), Daks, Burberry (4% each), Ferragamo (1.6%), MCM (1.1%), etc.

Most popular coffee shop chains in Korea are Starbucks (25%), Caffe Bene (11%), Angel-in-us Coffee (10%), coffee bean, ediya coffee(each 7%), Two Some Place (4%), and Hollys(3%).

Korean's most favorite apparel brands are Bean Pole (6%), Indians, Nike (each 5%), Daks, Uniqlo (4% each), Crocodile (3%), Galaxy (3.0%), The North Face (2.9%) and Olivia Lauren (2.7%).

1404 survey respondents who use internet choose Naver(71%)as their favorite potal site followed by Daum(19%), Google(3.3%), Nate(2.5%)and Yahoo(1%).