From the getting off of Actors to the legal Dispute resolution between producers, School 2020' has been raising concerns since the First broadcast.
KBS2's new tree drama School 2020' (playplayplay Joara and director Kim Min-tae) is a work that depicts the growth of the dreams, friendships and excitement of the eighteen youths who chose other roads, not the entrance examination. It is a 2021 version of the 'School' series called Star Lighting Gate.
The 'School' series has been broadcast seven times since 1999 and has produced stars such as Lee Jong-seok, Kim Woo-bin, Jang Hyuk, Bae Doo-na, Ha Ji Won, Jo In-sung, Lim Soo-jung and Sharing. As a series representing KBS, it was very popular every year with various jails and buzzwords, but it was gradually becoming less popular.
And School 2020', the eighth series of 'School', is worried because it is showing an uneasy start from the beginning. The production continues to be pushed and the Actors have not only got off, but also added to the legal Dispute resolution between the producers, raising anxiety.
Initially, School 2020' was scheduled to be broadcast in August last year under the name School 2020', but it was postponed indefinitely due to the problem that occurred during the investment stage. In the process, the main Actor was replaced, and even the heroine, Ahn Seo-hyun, was controversial because it was announced that he got off due to unilateral notification by the production company. Kim Sae-ron was reported to be replacing An Seo-hyun's vacancy, but Kim Sae-ron eventually refused to appear in the ongoing criticism.
Ahn Seo-hyun is not the only one who got off. Kim Young-dae also gave up "School 2020" due to continued production. At the time, Kim Young-dae's agency, Outer Korea, said, "Due to various unsolved problems, we were notified of the termination of the contract to Kings Land (former Kings Media) on June 21, 2021. According to the contract, the filming started in May last year and the broadcast was scheduled to start in August of the same year, but the filming was not carried out due to the internal circumstances of Kings Media. "
In the ongoing acting, School 2020' was able to enter the full-scale shooting by casting Jo Hyun and Chu Young-woo in the third quarter of this year, which was pushed for more than a year than the existing plan. I wanted to make it all over, but the real problem was now: the legal Dispute resolution between the unfinished producers came to the surface.
Yonhap News said on Thursday that content makers Escal Pictures and Kings Land are doing legal Dispute resolutions on the copyright of School 2020'. According to reports, SR Pictures filed a ban on drama production and distribution against Kings Land, Lamon Rae, and KBS, a producer of School 2020' in August. Kings Land has lost his rights to School 2020' due to problems such as the unpaid performance of Actor, but he has since signed a contract with Lamon Rain and made a drama production. In addition, SR Pictures claimed that KBS knew it and acquiesced.
Kings Land and KBS, on the other hand, refuted that "School 2020" was not a drama that they had originally signed with S.R. Pictures. In addition, KingsLand has filed a criminal complaint against the representative of Esal Pictures on charges of violating the law on the aggravated punishment of specific economic crimes, saying that Esal Pictures hid the failure of drama formation and signed an investment contract, resulting in hundreds of millions of won in financial damage.
As such, School 2020' is surrounded by various noises with less than a week left of the First broadcast. If Kim Yo-han's COVID-19 infection did not push the broadcast schedule, it would have exploded during the broadcast. Currently, School 2020' is sticking to its position that "there is no change in the First broadcast schedule," but Actor, who had dropped off the drama several times, has exposed the conflict with Kings Land. It is noteworthy whether School 2020' will be able to finish the journey that started hard after a long postponement.