Seo Yea Ji To Make A Return On Big Screen 3 Years After Kim Soo Hyun's Scandal
Seo Yea Ji is reportedly in talks to play the lead in the upcoming thriller K-drama Forest of Humans.
Seems like South Korean actress Seo Yea Ji is soon returning on-screen. She is reportedly in talks to lead the upcoming thriller K-drama, Forest of Humans. If all goes well, this would mark her return to the small screen after a hiatus of more than three years. The actress was last seen on-screen in the K-drama Eve, which aired between June and July 2022.
On Thursday, May 8, SPOTV News reported that Seo Yea Ji had been approached to play the lead in Forest of Humans, a dark thriller show based on a popular horror webtoon. Reportedly, the webtoon has received high ratings despite its mature content, and the makers are currently in discussions about getting its OTT release sorted.
Seo Yea Ji, who has maintained a relatively low profile in recent years, signed an exclusive contract with the management agency Sublime and is slowly re-entering showbiz after her massive controversies. The news of Seo Yea Ji's return to the small screen has caused a frenzy among her fans, who are excited to watch what more she brings to her new role if she decides to star in it.
Taking to an X post, many of her fans expressed their excitement, with one of them saying, 'MOTHER HAS RETURNED TO RECLAIM HER CROWN." Another commented, 'My heart is filled with so much happiness and joy. I know my girl will devour this role, and I cannot wait to see her on my screen again." Someone else wrote, 'We will all be seated for the comeback of this thriller queen."
#SeoYeaJi reportedly to lead a new OTT drama < #ForestOfHumans > which is based on a popular horror webtoon, depicts a story about what unfolds after a containment facility, built to hold psychopathic murderers for experimental purposes, becomes paralyzed and descends into chaos. pic.twitter.com/Q4PrtmoJ3B — K-Drama Casting (@kdramacasting) May 8, 2025
Speaking of Forest of Humans, the thriller drama centres around violence and death that unfolds when the system of a secret containment facility designed to imprison psychopathic murderers for experimental observation fails. This unleashes dangerous criminals into the world and ignites a fight for survival.
As for Seo Yea Ji, she took a hiatus from acting after accusations of school violence and bullying against her surfaced in the media. She was also alleged to have gaslighted her then-boyfriend, actor Kim Jung Hyun. She received immense backlash after reports claimed that she controlled and manipulated his drama script in 2018, including a romantic scene with his co-star Seohyun in the K-drama Time.
Back then, Seo Yea Ji was represented by Kim Soo Hyun's agency Gold Medalist. She had worked with the actor in the popular K-drama It's Okay to Not Be Okay. After Kim Soo Hyun's dating controversy unfolded, a former employee of Gold Medalist came forward to allege that Seo Yea Ji was used as a scapegoat back then to cover up the agency's internal issue. When the revelations surfaced in the media, a frustrated Seo Yea Ji clarified that she has no association with the actor or his agency anymore and urged people to stop associating her with Kim Soo Hyun.
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