Eyebrows are being raised at the vast differences in statements between actress Clara andPolaris Entertainment. Previously, it was reported that Polaris Entertainment was suing Clara for unknown reasons and more recently, it was revealed that she had filed a civil suitagainst them to nullify her contract while claiming she had felt sexually harassed. In retaliation, Polaris Entertainment claimed on January 15 that she had threatened them to void her contract or she would say she had been sexually harassed.
On the same day Polaris Entertainment released the long statement about Clara's threat, her law firm, SW Law, released its own official statement:
"Clara's exclusive company is KoreanaClara, which Clara's parents have established, and the opposite party, Ilkwang Polaris, is an agency company that was delegated a portion of authority from KoreanaClara to enter into casting negotiations for Clara's CF and movie appearances.
On that note, Ilkwang Polaris is not Clara's agency. Furthermore, KoreanaClara was first established after which KoreanaClara and Ilkwang Polaris signed an agency contract; the rumor going around that Clara signed an exclusive contract with Ilkwang Polaris and then after she started doing well wanted independence from the company is not true.
This case could have been handled civilly as a usual breach of contract and cancellation problem; hence, suing her on the basis of threat was not proper, and it can be conjectured that Ilkwang Polaris sued Clara for [allegedly] threatening them because Clara is a celebrity and they considered that, in the case of disputes with celebrities, a criminal case more than a civil case would be a bigger blow to an opposing party that is a celebrity.
Clara has actually already underwent a police investigation in two parts that went over 12 hours, resulting in a huge mental and physical trauma, not to mention Clara's mother even received hospital treatment due to trauma. Despite that, Clara is faithfully fulfilling her schedule for celebrity promotions as planned in order to avoid disappointing the people around her."
[Update] - To address Polaris' statement that pointed out Clara had filed a civil suit instead of criminal suit against them (which is unusual for a sexual harassment case), and that Clara apologized and admitted she lied about sexual harassment, the law firm stated,
"We filed a civil suit because it would take extra legal investigation into whether a criminal charge can be pressed even if words that bring about sexual humiliation are said, and Clara herself did not want to make this into a criminal issue in the first place.
Also in the position of a celebrity, no matter how wrong the other side is, it is very difficult for a celebrity to press for a criminal suit. This is because it is in the best of the celebrity to carry these matters out quietly as it is the celebrity who suffers more harm [due to their public image] while the court process takes place with their privacy being revealed, rather than the opposing party.
In regards to Polaris' statement that Clara had come to apologize and admit that she had made up the claims about sexual harassment, this is also the twisted version of the truth.
On September 22, 2014, when Clara's father had sent a letter notifying their wish to terminate the contract due to Polaris chief's inappropriate words [to Clara], the lawyer from the agency told her father, "First, you have to apologize for one-sidedly asking for the contract to be terminated with no penalty fee and for threatening to report the chief to the police. Then we will negotiate on terminating the contract and the amount of penalty fee." This was sent by KakaoTalk messenger, and we have this in evidence.
This day, Clara made up her mind to apologize to the Polaris chief in order to get her contract terminated, and visited the chief at the law office to do what the agency's lawyer had told her to do and apologized. However, Polaris recorded this conversation and tuned it over into the police and filed a criminal suit against Clara by saying that she had demanded for her contract to be terminated without penalty and that she had threatened to report the Polaris chief to the police. And this criminal suit had been filed after Clara had done exactly what Polaris' lawyer told her to do.
So during the police investigation, Clara had told the police, "I only did what I was told by the Polaris lawyer and apologized because I had believed that they would terminate by contract if I did. However, it is the truth that I had received words of sexual harassment which is what caused me to ask for the termination of the contract." She then submitted the various KakaoTalk messages as evidence to the police."
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