By Lee Suh-yoon, Park Si-soo
Hardly a day has passed without fresh #MeToo accusations.
After sexual harassment claims involving the prosecution, literature, films, theaters and universities, the #MeToo movement has started rocking the nation’s music industry.
A well-known film music director and a jazz pianist are the latest alleged perpetrators.
Park Sang-ji, a musician, claimed on Facebook on Friday that reputed film music director Lee Byung-hoon forced her to kiss him in the summer of 2014 at a villa in Hapcheon, Gangwon Province, where they were working on the romance film “C’est Si Bon.”
Park, who was in Lee’s chain of command, claimed the incident left her “humiliated, ashamed and scared.”
Lee has reportedly claimed the controversial kiss was “consensual.” However, Park said that after she spoke out about the incident, the director retaliated with what she claimed was an unfair paycheck and insults about her musical knowledge.
In another #MeToo case, a renowned jazz pianist has been accused of kissing and touching a female concert manager’s body without her consent at a post-concert party in March 2014.
The manager revealed the alleged sexual harassment in a recent interview with News 1, an online news outlet, with her personal details withheld. She made the revelation after the pianist was found not guilty recently for lack of evidence.
The court ruled that suggested evidence showed the two were in a situation where the pianist could mistakenly assume she was interested in him.
The woman claimed the court’s ruling was “wrong.”