Cha Eun-woo and Kim Seon-ho's agency, Namgoong-kyeon, opened their mouth.."SBS 'Director Kim' contract" [Star Issue]

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Actors Cha Eun-woo and Kim Sun-ho's agency Fantagio have signed a production contract for the drama "Director Kim."

Fantagio said on the 16th, "We have signed a production contract for SBS's Friday-Saturday drama 'Kim Jang-bu', which is scheduled to air in June."

"Director Kim" is a work about Kim, who lived as an ordinary head of household and a small citizen, revealing his secrets that should never be known to find his beloved daughter and putting everything on the line to save her daughter. Actor So Ji-seop, who was well received through the Netflix drama 'Gwangjang', will appear as the main character 'Kim Jang-bu'. The original work of "Director Kim" is a Naver webtoon of the same name, which has maintained its No. 1 position on Naver's Tuesday and Sunday webtoons for nearly four years.

"We will continue to grow through competitive IP and high-quality contents in the future," Fantagio Chairman Nam Goong-gyeon said.

Cha Eun-woo, a member of Fantagio's boy group Astro and actor, is currently suspected of evading about 20 billion won. Last year, the 4th Bureau of Investigation of the Seoul Regional Tax Office conducted an intensive tax investigation against Cha Eun-woo and Fantagio, and the National Tax Service judged that the corporation A, which Cha Eun-woo established in the name of his mother Choi, is a "paper company" that has virtually no substance. It is believed that the tax was evaded by distributing profits such as high advertising model fees and performance fees attributable to Cha Eun-woo in the form of false service contracts between A and his agency, and receiving a relatively low corporate tax rate instead of a personal income tax rate of up to 45%. Accordingly, the additional fine notified to Cha Eun-woo by the National Tax Service was 20 billion won, the largest ever among domestic celebrity tax collection cases.

Kim Sun-ho, who is sharing a meal with Cha Eun-woo in Fantagio, was also suspected of circumventing his income by running a family corporation like Cha Eun-woo last month. In response, Fantagio explained, "In the past, a single-person corporation was established for theater production and theater-related activities, and it was not established for the purpose of intentional tax savings or tax evasion," adding, "As Kim Seon-ho moved to Fantagio, actual business activities did not take place for about a year, and it is currently undergoing closure procedures in accordance with related laws and procedures."

However, when it was revealed that he received settlement money from his former agency through a family corporation shortly afterwards, Kim Sun-ho eventually returned all of his past corporate card usage, family benefits, and corporate vehicles as a preemptive measure to correct the operation of the corporation, which was ignorant at the time. For the amount settled in the past through the corporation, personal income tax has been additionally paid in addition to the corporate tax paid. We are currently in the process of closing the corporation, and the administrative process will be completed soon," he apologized.

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