In the end, even the judges who had been staying silent were hounded by the media for interviews. Perhaps Kwon So-Hyun was walking on eggshells –– she declined to be interviewed; Park Han-Young glossed over the questions and gave vague answers; the Korean branch manager of Midas Agency, Choi Min-Hwan, had no choice but to say positive things about the audition, but the other judges had no reason to do so. 

<There was a judge who gave Chae Woo-Jin a low score for his ‘bad pronunciation’ when he used a hood accent even though the character, Lloyd, came from the hood in LA. Initially, the judge criticized him for not analyzing the work properly, but as soon as it was revealed that it was true to the original script, the judge chastised him for not trying something new and called him a parrot. The judges had a hard time because this judge was being unreasonable.>

<The judge that gave Chae Woo-Jin two out of five points for his appearance gave Park Min a perfect score. I can’t comment on those scores as appearance is subjective, but it seems as though the judge was treating the audition as some sort of lifetime achievement award. It was a situation in which the scores were obviously different, even if it was just by a point, but the judge kept insisting that we should take into account Park Min’s hard work and contributions which he has made to the entertainment industry, and insisted on picking him. It’s interesting to note that...