Pengalaman Tragis Pemain Anak di Industri Hiburannya

Heo Jeong Min, Kang Rae Yeon, dan Seo Jae Kyung mengungkapkan kondisi kerja yang buruk dan korupsi yang mereka alami sebagai aktris anak di masa lalu.

Pada tanggal 10 Juli, saluran YouTube B-Level Studio menyebarkan video berjudul, "I definitely saw this a long time ago … We’ve invited popular child actors from the previous generation! | EP.31 Heo Jeong Min, Kang Rae Yeon, Seo Jae Kyung."pada>

Kang Rae Yeon berkata, "Back then, we weren’t treated like child actors are now, nor did we have any sense of fulfillment for our work or any protective measures for child actors."pada>

Dia melanjutkan, "Child actors these days earn huge amounts of money. But when we were kids, there was a child actor grade system. Because we were paid according to grades, even if we were popular, as child actors we earned less."pada>

Heo Jeong Min menambahkan, "The grades ranged from 1 to 5. The most successful were grade 5, and the least popular were grade 1."pada>

Kang Rae Yeon mengatakan, "The highest payment was ₩250,000 KRW (sekitar $167 USD) per episode for dramas. She juga mengingatkan bahwa aktris anak pernah melakukan syuting malam di masa lalu, "Back then, if filming went until sunset, we shot night scenes, then after sunrise, day scenes again. Dissolves were an everyday thing."pada>

Heo Jeong Min menambahkan, "Our parents went through a lot."pada>

Seo Jae Kyung mengungkapkan, "It seems it was a corrupt era back then," dengan mengatakan, "When we made mistakes, we weren’t just lightly tapped—we were hit so hard we sometimes bled."pada>

Kang Rae Yeon menyatakan kesedihan, berkata, "The problem was, when we got hit, as child actors we would get worked up and push through. If we couldn’t cry for a crying scene, they’d hit us to make us cry. That would be unimaginable today."pada>

Seo Jae Kyung menjelaskan, "Usually it was the directors who hit us, but of course that was a minority and most were good people. Still, the atmosphere was shaped by one or two individuals."pada>

He juga mengungkapkan, "Back then, people in charge took a lot of under-the-table payments," dan menambahkan, "Looking back now, they accepted money through drinks, food, gifts—but all I have left now is debt."pada>

Heo Jeong Min juga mengungkapkan, "They took a lot of bribes from mothers promising to raise (child actor) grades."pada>

Di bawah ini adalah beberapa foto dari aktris anak yang pernah menjadi korban korupsi di industri hiburannya,

Setelah mengalami pengalaman traumatis sebagai aktris anak, Heo Jeong Min, Kang Rae Yeon, dan Seo Jae Kyung berusaha untuk mengungkapkan kebenaran dan mencegah korupsi di industri hiburannya. Mereka ingin membantu generasi muda untuk tidak mengalami hal serupa di masa depan.

Akhirnya, perlu diketahui bahwa kekerasan terhadap anak-anak harus dihilangkan sepenuhnya. Kita harus mendukung dan melindungi hak-hak anak untuk memiliki pengalaman yang aman dan seimbang di masa kecil.