Choi Woo Shik, the actor behind the son in the Oscar-winning film Parasite, the high school baseball player in Train to Busan and the hit dramas Our Beloved Summer, A Killer Paradox and Melo Movie, has denied a rumor that he was rude to a flight attendant. Now some netizens are attacking him over his nationality instead.
The rumor began with a post on Threads by a user who said they were a flight attendant. The writer claimed that when they greeted Choi Woo Shik and tried to take his meal order, he frowned and complained to his manager beside him. The claim spread online, but it has not been confirmed.
On November 6, his agency Fable Company said false information about the actor was spreading, mainly on Threads. The agency said posting or distorting untrue claims to create rumors seriously harms the actor's reputation and rights, and that it is collecting the posts and tracking how they spread. It plans to take legal action against anyone who writes, shares or reproduces the false claims.
Many netizens doubted the post, pointing out that the behavior described didn't match the way Choi Woo Shik usually talks and acts. But as the debate went on, some comments turned to an unrelated topic: his nationality and military service.
Born in 1990, Choi Woo Shik moved to Canada with his family at age 11, and his English name is Edward Choi. He has spoken in the past about struggling to adjust to a new country as a teenager, and he has said on TV that he holds Canadian citizenship....
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