By This story about the suicide of Korean drama actress Jang Ja-yeon just continues to get uglier and uglier:
The former manager of deceased actress Jang Jan-yeon made copies of her hand-written documents where she confessed to being forced to have sex with influential figures, police said yesterday.
“Yoo Jang-ho admitted having made draft and copied versions of the documents,” said an official of the Bundang Police Station, who questioned Yoo on Wednesday over allegations of his defaming the dead actress by spreading false rumors about her.
Yoo helped Jang write the revealing documents after she had said she wanted her agency head to be punished for his actions, he said.
“Before we finalized a 4-page document based on her statement, we went through seven or eight draft pages, of which we made some copies,” he said.
Whereas Yoo earlier said that he and Jang’s family burned all existing copies of the documents shortly after her death, KBS aired shots of the contended documents caused controversy over their authenticity.
“The reporters seem to have taken the draft versions that I threw in my office trash bin,” he said.
Yoo also showed part of the document to some media reporters on the day after Jang’s death, he said during police investigation.
However, he denied passing on any of the documents until after Jang killed herself. Some observers recently speculated that Jang committed suicide when she found out that her confession had been leaked.
The former manager also said that Jang seemed to be intimidated by Kim Sung-hun, the agency head whom she accused of forcing her into unwanted relationships, whose threatening message was recorded in the actress’ cell phone.
“Kim seems to have demanded her obedience by threatening to kick her out of the entertainment business,” said a police official in yesterday’s briefing.
Kim, who has resided in Japan since last December, filed a suit against Yoo late on Wednesday night for defaming him through written documents, according to the Bundang Police Station. [Korea Herald]
The actress left a long list of names of publicly known people who she was forced to have sex with to advance her own career. These people allegedly included a number of Korean chaebol figures. It will be interesting to see if these chaebol figures will be able to cover up their involvement in the death of Jang Ja-yeon.
1:58 pm on March 28th, 2009 1
Way to hotlink, cool guy. No server space?
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March 29th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
This is the first I have ever even heard of this and people link to my pictures all the time.
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8:42 pm on March 28th, 2009 2
Hotlinking is offensive? Who’d of thunk it? I thought it was common practice across the web…
Anyway, my primary interest in this case is like I said before – the chaebol angle. How much will they be able to keep this from touching them? I’d imagine very well – considering how well they have kept green environmental movement from being used against them by the public media.
Hearing this story, I also thought of a note over at the new blog Big Hollywood.
It is a site for conservatives in the entertainment industry to speak out about how overwhelmingly liberal (and closed minded) the American entertainment industry is.
One comment from a guy in the industry was about a female friend of his that had told him stories about the same thing this Korean actress went through.
I also thought of this talk show about behind-the-scenes in Hollywood that had a French prostitute on. She talked about going to wild parties at a director’s house “everybody would know” and about being disgusted at how some female actresses, again people” everyone would know if I said their names”, were made to do stuff. She said she was a whore and got paid for that but it pissed her off to see these major Hollywood starlets I guess degraded.
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9:52 pm on March 28th, 2009 3
“Hotlinking is offensive? Who’d of thunk it? I thought it was common practice across the web…”
When you hotlink you’re essentially stealing someone else’s bandwidth. So yes, it is considered offensive (doubly so when you have your own server).
This casting couch business is really depressing, and it makes me wonder if some of the actresses I like have gone through it.
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March 29th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Then I guess the internet is just crammed pack to the gills full of offensive people…
Give how routinely it is done, I’d have to think that this is a minority.
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4:36 pm on March 29th, 2009 4
I disagree with the hot linking offensive. Hot linking is good for the host website as it makes it more popular and gets more hits, which presumably is the purpose. Would it be better to to cut and past the content and not give the original site any credit?
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March 29th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I doubt a lot of people are going to look at the image’s properties to find out where it’s located, so it’s not going to increase a site’s popularity. It just drains their bandwidth. While ROK Drop likely doesn’t generate enough traffic to cause problems, highly active sites like the Something Awful forums do (SA has its own image hosting service, and hotlinking to almost anything other than your personal webspace is forbidden).
The image could have been copied without crediting the source (D-Addicts) if it was just a picture of her, since it effectively belongs to nobody.
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March 29th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
That is why I’d say not providing a click-link on the image to the original source would be more mildly offensive than just hotlinking.
The “stealing my bandwidth” argument might carry weight with me if — I saw a lot of sites crashed all the time. But you rarely run across a site that has been shut down for exceeding its monthly bandwidth. And the few times I’ve seen it occur on the K-blogs, it was always connected to some other issue. I’ve never run across a blog or site that said it had been shut down temporarily because too many people were hotlinking images it hosts.
So I have a hard time taking offense at hotlinking seriously.
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March 30th, 2009 at 8:46 am
If an image was hotlinked on the frontpage of Slashdot or Fark, I think a significant amount of traffic would occur. But regardless of how big or small of an effect hotlinking has, you’re still stealing someone else’s resources. It’s standard etiquette to either host the image yourself or upload it to an image host.
9:35 am on April 5th, 2009 5
Come on, let’s be honest here. Hotlinking in the beginning was in fact an accepted and even encouraged practice. It was accepted in that, it was pretty much impossible to stop, and encouraged because those few who cared had copyright in the image and it was deemed a lesser evil to hotlink (hopefully with an embedded link back to the site) rather than have the image “stolen.”
But now, pretty much every damn website has ads and other financial mechanisms that can generate funds for the owner. But unless someone visits the website, or clinks through banners, the owner really doesn’t make money.
So like I said, be honest. Don’t say stealing bandwidth, although I’m sure hotlinking does use up bandwidth. Unless you’re getting seriously /. increased bandwidth represents negligible cost, if any, to the site owner. In fact, if you fall into bandwidth overage for something as minor and expected as this, you probably should be looking for a different plan.
So be honest and say, “I rely on certain advertising/banner activity to help fund my website. If you just hotlink and do not provide link back to my site, I can lose revenue.” Just complaining about bandwidth just make you sound petty and dishonest, like complaining about air people breathe in your house.
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8:18 am on April 13th, 2009 6
Chosun Ilbo ‘Bang Sang Hoon’ and Sports Chosun ‘Bang Sung Hoon. They are counsins.
They forced the late actree Jang Ja Yeon to have a sex.
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