[Official] "The Assassins" star Lee Min-ho's Busan International Film Festival event canceled, citing "unavoidable circumstances"

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Actor Lee Min-ho's Busan International Film Festival Actors House event has been canceled. Attention is focused on the sudden cancellation, announced just six days before the event.

On the 1st, the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) office announced that the "Actors House: Lee Min-ho" event, which was scheduled to be held on the 7th, has been canceled.

The BIFF side stated, "We inform you that the 'Actors House: Lee Min-ho' event has been canceled due to unavoidable circumstances. Tickets purchased will be automatically canceled and refunded in bulk without a separate refund application or fee, and individual notification messages are expected to be sent. We ask for your understanding."

The "Actors House," an event held during the Busan International Film Festival, is an event that invites Han Guk-yeong-hwa (CEO) actors to look back on their filmographies and share their acting philosophies and lesser-known stories honestly and in depth. This year, Lee Min-ho, Kim Go-eun, Ryu Seung-ryong, Joo Ji-hoon, and Kim Min-ha were scheduled to meet fans at the Actors House, but Lee Min-ho's event was suddenly canceled.

Although the festival side mentioned "unavoidable circumstances," interpretations are emerging that the cancellation is due to the fact that the film "The Assassins," in which Lee Min-ho starred, has recently been embroiled in political controversy.

"The Assassins" is a film that traces the suspicions and masterminds behind the incident, using the 1974 assassination of Lady Yoo Young-sook as its motif. Since its release on the 23rd of last month, controversy has continued as criticism of historical distortion has been raised by political circles and related organizations over some settings in the film.

In response, the production team issued an official statement on the 28th of last month, rebutting that the work is "not a film produced to newly establish a specific historical conclusion or to deny or distort existing facts." They also explained that it is a feature film that adds cinematic imagination based on publicly available records and materials, and does not designate a specific person as the mastermind of the incident nor present hypotheses in the drama as historical facts.

While the production team stated that they respect the fact that various interpretations and criticisms may arise given that the work is based on a historical event and real people, they emphasized that it is "not a film produced with a specific political purpose or intent" and asked that it be viewed as a creative work, but the controversy continues.

In particular, malicious comments are pouring into lead actor Lee Min-ho's social media accounts, and criticism directed at the actor is ongoing.

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