Actor Lee Jang-woo, recently embroiled in controversy over unpaid accounts receivable, spoke about his feelings and misunderstandings to date through YouTube.
On the 2nd, a new video titled Recent controversy will be addressed was posted on the YouTube channel 'Fat Uncle Lee Jang-woo.'
That day Lee Jang-woo opened up about the reason a video was uploaded after two weeks, saying, "First of all, I am very sorry to those who waited. Our channel is one where we happily laugh, eat and all enjoy together, but because of personal matters I felt it was right to sort everything out and then upload the video."
Earlier, the sundae soup restaurant operated by Lee Jang-woo was reported to have not paid 40 million won for pig offal for eight months, sparking controversy. In response, Lee Jang-woo's side released all transfer records, saying, "Hoseokchon (the sundae soup restaurant operated by Lee Jang-woo) has already paid the full delivery amount to Mujin Co., Ltd., its contractual supplier."
Regarding this, Lee Jang-woo said, "I'm not the kind of person bold enough to skim other people's money and run a business like that. What actually happened is there was an intermediate distributor and a livestock company. When we received meat from the distributor, we settled immediately," he revealed.
He continued, "But last September we changed distributors, and the transaction ended in September last year. The meat costs had all been paid," and explained, "However, that intermediate distributor's business deteriorated and they couldn't pay the livestock company. That's how those unpaid receivables occurred."
He added, "But the livestock company owner misunderstood and thought I was running that distributor. They thought I had to pay the unpaid receivables because I was the operator there. They misunderstood like that," and said, "I contacted the livestock company owner and the misunderstanding with the distributor and the livestock company has now been completely resolved, and in any case I said I would take moral responsibility for this matter."
Moreover, responding to comments suggesting he only lent his name to the sundae soup restaurant and only promoted it, Lee Jang-woo lamented, "So it's not that I just lent my name and promoted it. I really like food, and among foods I really, really love sundae soup, so I wanted to run a sundae soup restaurant."
Lee Jang-woo also said, "I now take part in menu development and recipe development, but just doing that doesn't mean I can run a store. For things like interior, staff management and overall setup, we received help from professionals," and added, "One of my childhood friends ran a butcher shop for a long time. He is a meat expert, so that friend took on the role of CEO."
Lee Jang-woo emphasized, "It's absolutely not that I just lent my face and stepped back; there are professionals and I do menu development. And it's never the case that I fiddled with the accounting or put a neighborhood friend in charge."
Finally Lee Jang-woo said, "Actually this incident made me think a lot. I'm sincere about food, but it seems that didn't come across well. From now on I feel the need to be more aware of my surroundings, to approach food more maturely. I'm preparing to show a more mature, well-aged side of Lee Jang-woo."
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