‘AV pornography posting’ Park Sung Hoon, lame excuses… Reason for keeping it [Official]

Actor Park Sung Hoon is being criticized by netizens for his lame excuses after posting and then deleting a Japanese AV (Adult Video) cover that parodies his ‘Squid Game’ series.

On the 30th, an AV cover that explicitly contained numerous women‘s nude bodies and sexual intercourse scenes was posted on Park Sung Hoon’s SNS. It was a high-quality ‘pornography’ with the concept of a parody of ‘Squid Game’. The post was deleted at the speed of light, but it had already been captured and quickly spread online.

Some netizens raised the possibility of hacking damage, but it was indeed a post posted by Park Sung Hoon himself. An official from Park Sung Hoon‘s agency BH Entertainment admitted to Donga.com, “Park Sung Hoon was receiving so many DMs (direct messages) on his social media that he accidentally uploaded it while checking his DMs.” They then apologized, saying, “The actor himself was very surprised, and he is very sorry for making such a mistake in these times. We will be careful so that something like this never happens again.”

Considering the post that Park Sung Hoon uploaded, you can see that he did not ‘regram’received a photo as a DM,’ but rather saved it to his mobile device and uploaded it himself. Then why on earth did Park Sung Hoon keep the AV cover?

On the 31st, an official from BH Entertainment told Donga.com, “We judged that it was problematic, so we downloaded the photo in question in the process of forwarding it to the person in charge of the company. After saving it, I should have sent it to the person in charge and deleted it right away, but it was uploaded by mistake,” he explained.

It seems that the reason Park Sung-hoon was holding the AV cover has been explained, although it is a bit shabby. However, it is expected that he will not be able to avoid criticism because the process of posting it on SNS story is not simple to say that it was uploaded ‘by mistake’.

Meanwhile, Park Sung-hoon played the role of Hyun-joo, a transgender person about to undergo gender confirmation surgery, in the second season of the Netflix series ‘Squid Game’, which was released on the 26th. He is scheduled to be interviewed for the work next week. Attention is being paid to what kind of explanation he will give in front of the press.

Jeong Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com