[HanCinema's News] More New Accusations Pile up Against Seo Yea-ji

The public relations situation for actress Seo Yea-ji has continued to worsen since yesterday, with many individual details of allegations against the actress being confirmed even as the overall tenor of the situation remains vague. Most notably, the Complutense University of Madrid was asked to verify that Seo Yea-ji had been accepted to the school as a young woman. Though they refused to confirm or deny Seo Yea-ji's situation, the prompting of the request was the real significance.

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Specifically, one of the statements regarding Seo Yea-ji's school-age bullying made note of how the actress claimed to have prepared to go to school in Spain. This background detail has actually been confirmed in Seo Yea-ji's broadcast career. In 2014 Lee Soon-jae of the popular variety show Grandpas Over Flowers made reference to Seo Yea-ji's Spanish language notes. Purportedly she gave him the notes when they were co-stars on "Potato Star" back in 2013.

The detail of Seo Yea-ji's early career had been almost entirely forgotten. Regardless of whether Seo Yea-ji was actually accepted by the university in question, its inclusion appears to verify that the accuser who mentioned it did in fact know Seo Yea-ji in a direct capacity. Seo Yea-ji had not mentioned this part of her background in recent years. Her agency claims that while Seo Yea-ji was accepted and prepared for entrance, she ultimately did not go to instead focus on her acting career.

Elsewhere Seo Yea-ji was accused of gaslighting behavior during the course of filming "The Night Watchman's Journal" back in 2014. Purportedly U-Know also participated in cruel treatment of staff during this time, the two co-stars having been engaged in a secret relationship. They would also erupt in fury at staff, seemingly at random, over such trivial errors as misapplied makeup. The specificity of the allegations is a likely response to claims from other staff that Seo Yea-ji is a kind person.

While the true nature of Seo Yea-ji's professional and personal behavior remain unknown, the overall tone toward the actress is taking a increasing turn toward the negative. Television personality Jo Se-ho was noted to have briefly "liked" an accusation on social media, though he quickly reversed the preference. It is unknown whether this was a mere mistake, or whether Jo Se-ho impulsively and inadvertently confirmed Seo Yea-ji's poor reputation without consideration to the unresolved nature of the situation.

Written by William Schwartz