Lee Hyori Sells House on Jeju After Trespassing and Break Ins By Fans of Her Television Show
|I kind of feel bad for Lee Hyo-ri and her husband that they had to sell their her house on Jeju, but you would have thought that they would have seen this coming after agreeing to make the show:
Singer Lee Hyo-ri’s slow life on Jeju Island with her musician husband Lee Sang-soon has been ruined by break-ins, curious tourists and pranksters.
In response, the couple has sold their home that served as the location for reality show “Hyori’s Homestay” to the cable network that made the program.
JTBC said it bought it over fears the program’s image would be damaged if it were sold to a third party.
“There is a possibility that the content image of ‘Hyori’s Homestay’ could be ruined if it was used for commercial purposes such as an open facility,” JTBC said.
Even before “Hyori’s Homestay” was aired, the couple was the target of excessive public attention. But the program made it worse.
“There were those who knocked on the door of the couple’s home and even trespassed inside,” the channel said. “This kind of privacy violation issue was at a level beyond the expected range.”
“Hyori’s Homestay” started last year. The second season ran from February to May. [Korea Times]
The show is actually available on Netflix and I thought it was pretty entertaining. I really liked her husband Lee Sang-soon who seemed like a pretty cool person to hang out with. I thought their home and surrounding property was quite nice, but it only had a chain link fence around it that anyone could jump over. I remember watching the show thinking that they were going to have stupid people jump over that fence and trespass on their property. Sure enough that is what happened and now they had to sell their house because of it.
Yeah, I watched a few episodes too and thought they were really nice folks, down to earth, kind. Too bad.
I thought the show was contrived but fans and tourists should definitely respect her home and space.
So the lesson is when the TV people come with suitcases full of cash and say “Do a reality show, it will be fun”. Watch the reality swill coming from America and every other country, imagine that will be you and and beat them out of your life with the biggest stick you can find.
Doc, that’s a great prescription!