From K-Drama Hero to Tax Evasion Suspect: Unpacking Cha Eun-woo’s 13 Billion KRW Scandal

[Magazine Kave=Reporter Park Sunam] As of April 2026, South Korea’s mainstream culture and arts industry is reeling amid an unprecedented tax-avoidance scandal of enormous scale, bringing both a moral and an economic crisis on a footing unlike anything seen before. The fallout across the sector has been immense, following the case in which Cha Eun-woo (real name: Lee Dong-min), a member of the...