Ha-young denies allegations of great-grandfather’s pro-Japanese ties

Actor Ha-young on Monday denied claims that her great-grandfather was a pro-Japanese collaborator during Japan's colonial rule of Korea. After allegations surfaced online that her great-grandfather, Ahn Sang-ho, had engaged in pro-Japanese activities, her agency dismissed the claims as "groundless." Ahn was a pioneer of modern medicine in Korea, becoming the first Korean to obtain a Japanese medical license and open one of Seoul’s earliest Western-style clinics, The controversy arose after Ha ap

By The Korea Herald