[Sportschosun, Lee Ge-eun] Actor Lee Min-ho's scheduled Busan International Film Festival event was abruptly canceled.
On the 1st, the Busan International Film Festival announced the cancellation of Lee Min-ho's event through its official account.
The Busan International Film Festival said, "We would like to inform you that the 'Actors' House: Lee Min-ho' event scheduled for 6:50 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7, has been canceled due to unavoidable circumstances. Tickets you purchased will be automatically canceled and refunded in full without a separate refund request or fee, and individual text-message notifications will be sent regarding this matter," and asked for the audience's understanding.
Lee Min-ho's agency, MYM Entertainment, also stated, "We would like to inform you that Lee Min-ho will unavoidably be unable to attend the Actors' House event at BIFF, which he had been scheduled to attend. We sincerely apologize to all audience members who had been looking forward to meeting him."
There has been speculation that Lee Min-ho's sudden absence may be related to the controversy surrounding the film 'Assassin(s)', in which he recently appeared.
'Assassin(s)' tells the story of an investigation into the suspicions surrounding, and those behind, the shooting incident involving the First Lady that shocked South Korea on August 15, 1974. After its release on the 23rd, the film surpassed one million moviegoers in just four days and held the top spot at the box office during the Chuseok holiday. However, controversy over historical distortion erupted as the film reconstructed the shooting incident involving First Lady Yuk Young-soo through cinematic imagination. The production team stated, "Using the historical event that occurred in 1974 as its motif, this is a feature film reconstructed by adding cinematic imagination to various records written in connection with the incident," and maintained that it was not made for political purposes. The fallout, however, continues.
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