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Actor Park Hae-jin performs community service with online critics

November 6, 2014
Park Hae-jin hustles with rumormongers delivering briquettes for residents of Guryong village in Seoul. (Yonhap)

Park Hae-jin hustles with rumormongers delivering briquettes for residents of Guryong village in Seoul. (Yonhap)

Korean actor Park Hae-jin has become a shining example among celebrities in showing how to handle online rumor mongering, after he forgave his Internet haters and actually ended up doing community service with them.

Park, 32, met 30 online rumormongers in the village of Guryong in Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul, on Oct. 31, said his management company WM Company, according to a local online outlet on Wednesday.

Park had sued the group in March, but dropped the charges on the condition that they do community service with him. Park decided on the task of delivering floor heating briquettes to villagers before winter.

The actor and his critics sweated together for about five hours delivering more than 1,600 briquettes, the report said.

“I think they (cyber bullies) learned a lesson about how to express their emotions in a different way,” a WM official said. ”And Park learned how to communicate with his cyber bullies in an honest way. He was very excited to share happiness with everyone at the scene.”

Park is appearing in cable network OCN’s thriller series, “Bad Boys.”