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Posted by serendipity46 pts Monday, January 19, 2015

Clara's side says the actress felt sexually harassed or humiliated by the Polaris chairman due to comments about menstruation and late night texts

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After firing back about the allegedly edited KakaoTalk history, Clara's side has spoken up in more detail about why Clara had felt sexually harassed or humiliated by the chairman of Polaris Entertainment.


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As mentioned before, Clara's side had mentioned that the KakaoTalk history had been edited to make it seem as if Clara was the one seducing the Polaris Entertainment chairman by sending him pictures of herself posing in a bikini. Her reps went ahead and revealed a very long full KakaoTalk history document, which showed that all the mentioned texts in the 'Dispatch' report had been said. However, 'Dispatch' did not list the conversations in chronological order, which Clara's side believed made the actress look bad, for it appeared as if she had sent the chairman her bikini photos in the middle of another conversation - if the reader was not paying close attention to the dates listed in the 'Dispatch' article.


Her reps also clarified that the pictures that Clara sent were from a magazine shoot, not something she took on her personal time. "The pictures Clara sent to the chairman were photoshoot pictures for work. They were pictures that had shot for distribution in the magazine or in articles. ... Also these photos were not sent to the chairman in attempt to seduce him... Clara had sent the photos, revealed in the 'Dispatch' article, on July 17 to chairman Lee, who had always taken care of her throughout the process of signing her contract with the agency, to just show him how the photos had turned out right after her photoshoot. These photos were those that were published by 'SURE' magazine and they had been sent to the chairman just for the sake of business as she was just notifying him of her schedule and the outcome of the photoshoot."


In addition, after 'Dispatch's article came out, many pointed out that there doesn't seem to be any sexual harassment going on in the released KakaoTalk history, except perhaps the one questionable series of comments from the chairman that reads, "Meeting you was different from other celebrities, so it felt fresh and my heart fluttered, but my heart is heavy for some reason now", "I'm saying this because I thought of you while drinking wine at the Peninsula", "Let's have a good meeting tomorrow".


Clara's reps addressed this saying, "It wasn't just the comment made on September 19 that was problematic. It was due to the fact that the chairman sent her 3 text messages in 5 minute intervals during the early hours of the morning past midnight. Seeing the texts sent after midnight while Chairman Lee had been drinking, it made Clara think, 'Just how does he think of me to send me texts like this while drinking at this hour,' making her feel very uncomfortable.


Also in the midst of this, at 1 PM later that day, when Clara met Chairman Lee, she heard something shocking from him. He told her 'The agency has to know about your whereabouts and what you're doing. You and I even discussed this before we signed the contract, about how the agency knows what kind of relationship some of our female celebrities have with their male managers, and even the dates of their menstruation.'


Hearing (1) the mention about menstruation (2) the previous late night KakaoTalk texts (3) and some of the Chairman's previous inappropriate ramblings about him having a girlfriend despite being married -- as a woman, Clara felt sexually humiliated.

Although they had mentioned the part about keeping track of menstrual cycle dates before the contract was signed, we had just passed over that in order to maintain a good relationship with them. But when Clara heard the mention of menstruation again, she could no longer take it. (We have submitted the evidence regarding this to the court and will reveal it to the media too if necessary.)"

The actress's reps also revealed that Clara had also then sent an email to Polaris's lawyer's office at 5PM later that same day, writing, "After midnight last night, Chairman Lee sent to me these messages on KakaoTalk while drinking. Saying his heart fluttered, that he thought of me after drinking. How am I supposed to react? I feel so shocked and disgraced. What do I do?" However there was no response to her email, which apparently led Clara to feel even more ignored and disregarded.


  1. Clara
  2. POLARIS ENTERTAINMENT
  3. LEE KYU TAE
  4. LEE GYU TAE
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