"Discrimination Against Poor Students... Lee Beom-soo's Abuse of Power in the Classroom Scandal"

Agency: "Professor duties are personal matters, cannot be verified"

Actor Lee Beom-soo. Photo by Asia Economy DB

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Iseul] Actor Lee Beom-soo (53) has been accused of abusing his power over his university students.

Recently, a post by a person identified as A was published on an online community, claiming to have been subjected to power abuse by Lee Beom-soo, who has been serving as the head of the Department of Performing Arts at Shinhan University since 2014.

A stated, "Lee Beom-soo discriminated by dividing students into Class A, favored and wealthy students, and Class B, poor and disliked students." Class B reportedly faced disadvantages in performance casting. A said, "In the end, I lived like a shadow until graduation and could not properly learn acting."

Furthermore, A said, "To gain Lee Beom-soo's favor, you have to become a slave who does whatever he orders. Students are made to spy on each other so that they cannot even breathe." A added, "Lee Beom-soo is severely abusive and gaslights students," and "Half of the first-year students took a leave of absence or dropped out."

On the afternoon of the 7th, a representative from Lee Beom-soo's agency, Big Punch Entertainment, stated, "Teaching duties are personal matters, so we are not aware of the situation. He has been teaching for a long time even before signing with our agency, so we do not know much about it."

Meanwhile, Lee Beom-soo debuted in 1990 with the film Let's Look at the Sky Sometimes and appeared in Come Back Home, released last October. He began filming Crime City 4 last month.

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