{"id":166924,"date":"2026-05-17T12:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=166924"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:08:23","slug":"director-confirms-cha-eunwoos-scenes-remain-in-the-wonderfools-following-the-actors-tax-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/director-confirms-cha-eunwoos-scenes-remain-in-the-wonderfools-following-the-actors-tax-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Director confirms Cha Eunwoo\u2019s scenes remain in The WONDERfools following the actor&#8217;s tax controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The WONDERfools director addresses editing rumors<\/h2>\n<p>Questions recently came to light about whether<strong> Cha Eunwoo\u2019s scenes in the upcoming Netflix drama The WONDERfools<\/strong> had been reduced following controversy related to his personal tax submissions. The actor and singer, who enlisted in the military in 2025 and is expected to be discharged on January 27, 2027, stars alongside Park Eun-bin in the superhero action-comedy series. Regarding the controversy, director <strong>Yoo In Sik<\/strong> responded directly to rumors about the actor\u2019s role in the drama at a press conference in Jongno-gu, Seoul.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The WONDERfools | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVoc4WQVMCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>The focus is on completing the drama<\/h2>\n<p>According to the director, the controversy became known while the production team was already close to finishing editing and post-production. In that sense, the director explained that the staff focused mainly on maintaining the overall quality of the series rather than changing completed scenes. He stated that many people worked hard on the project for a long time and that every moment in the drama was carefully prepared. Yoo In Sik also avoided giving detailed comments about Cha Eun Woo\u2019s personal situation and asked for understanding regarding privacy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cha-Eunwoo-tax-controversy-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cha-Eunwoo-tax-controversy-2026.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cha-Eunwoo-tax-controversy-2026-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cha-Eunwoo-tax-controversy-2026-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cha-Eunwoo-tax-controversy-2026-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cha-Eunwoo-tax-controversy-2026-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cha-Eunwoo-tax-controversy-2026-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201cI first learned about the issue through news reports when the editing and post-production process was already nearly complete. This project has been a long-time dream for me, and every single person involved worked incredibly hard, even for a one-second shot. We approached post-production with the overall quality and completion of the drama as our top priority,\u201d he said, according to News1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WONDERfools director addresses editing rumors Questions recently came to light about whether Cha Eunwoo\u2019s scenes in the upcoming Netflix drama The WONDERfools had been reduced following controversy related to his personal tax submissions. The actor and singer, who enlisted in the military in 2025 and is expected to be discharged on January 27, 2027, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":166926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1934,7],"tags":[1967],"tmauthors":[3734],"class_list":{"0":"post-166924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-k-drama","9":"category-news","10":"tag-cha-eunwoo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166929,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166924\/revisions\/166929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166924"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=166924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}