Korean Drama Crews Under Fire - When Filming Goes Too Far
The Korean entertainment industry is facing a serious credibility crisis as multiple drama production teams have been caught engaging in shocking behavior during filming. From breaking into closed cafes to literally hammering nails into 500-year-old UNESCO W
500-year-old UNESCO cultural heritage site damaged for drama filming / KBS News
orld Heritage sites, these incidents have left everyone asking: "Have these crews completely lost their minds?"
The latest controversy erupted when JTBC's 'Newsroom' revealed that a drama crew had illegally entered a closed cafe, completely ignoring the 'No Entry' signs. They rearranged furniture, folded up parasols, set up filming equipment, and vanished without cleaning up their mess.
The Cafe Break-In That Left Everyone Speechless
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Picture this: you're a small cafe owner who closes up shop for the night, only to return the next morning to find your entire place rearranged like someone played musical chairs with your furniture. That's exactly what happened when a drama crew decided to make themselves completely at home.
The cafe owner was absolutely livid. "If everything had been left as it was when we closed, I wouldn't have noticed anything strange. But it was so different that I had to check the CCTV footage again," the frustrated owner explained. The production team never bothered to ask for permission or inform nearby businesses about their filming plans.
"We never received any request from them. They used our property as they pleased and didn't even clean up properly," the owner said. Only after filing a police report did the filming team finally contact them, claiming they had "mistaken the filming location."
A Pattern of Absolutely Unacceptable Behavior
Unfortunately, this cafe incident is just the tip of the iceberg. Korean drama productions have been involved in increasingly outrageous controversies that question whether these crews think they're above basic human decency.
One shocking incident involved a drama crew telling grieving families visiting a columbarium to "keep quiet" because they were filming. Imagine families trying to pay respects to deceased loved ones, only to be shushed by a film crew treating a sacred space like their personal studio.
But the most culturally devastating incident occurred when KBS 2TV's "I Took the Male Lead's First Night" production team filmed at Andong Byeongsan Seowon - a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Korea's Historic Site No. 260. The crew hammered nails into ancient wooden pillars to install props, causing irreversible damage to a 500-year-old cultural treasure.
The Fallout and Desperate Damage Control
The public backlash has been swift and brutal. KBS was forced to issue two public apologies and completely discard all footage containing the damaged heritage site. The drama's director publicly admitted: "We were absolutely wrong, and we've discarded all the footage."
Other productions faced similar controversies. Netflix's "I Got Totally Scammed" blocked tourist access near festival sites, while JTBC's "Not a Hero, But" caused dangerous situations by blocking access for a high-risk pregnant woman trying to reach a hospital.
This pattern reflects a deeply troubling attitude within the Korean entertainment industry - one that prioritizes convenience over basic respect for people, private property, and
cultural heritage
. The entertainment industry must remember that creative expression should never come at the expense of human decency and respect for cultural heritage.
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