It was revealed that actress Han Hyo Joo's former managers were taken into custody for blackmailing her father, saying they wanted money in exchange for photos taken of her personal life.

On November 25, Han Hyo Joo's agency BH Entertainment released an official statement to inform the public and fans about the status of the matter. Their statement reads as follows:

"On November 4, an unidentified male made a threatening phone call to the father of our agency's actress Han Hyo Joo to demand money, saying 'Do not tell Han Hyo Joo and deposit 400 million won (~ 380,000 USD).'

Han Hyo Joo was consulted and she said, 'I never did anything that would cause a problem,' and so we decided it must be firmly handled as they seemed to be just using the simple reasoning that she's a public figure to blackmail so we reported it to the police right away. So since then her father has been cooperating with the police and the police were able to catch three people involved with the blackmail on November 7th.

The arrested party were all from Han Hyo Joo's previous agency that has gone out of business. The three had gotten to the point where they didn't have money for even their cell phone bill, so stuck in this dire situation, they had attempted to blackmail Han Hyo Joo's father.

Currently, they are in restricted confinement. It turned out that unlike their threats, the three did not even have any pictures that were out of the ordinary related to her private life...We will firmly respond to this act in which they indulged in blackmail on the grounds that she was a public figure."

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