A month on, and still canceled: Ahn Ha-young’s Panasonic ad goes private

How long can the fallout from a controversy continue to follow a public figure? For Ahn Ha-young, her troubles show no signs of slowing. The actor's advertisement for Japanese electronics brand Panasonic was confirmed Thursday to have been made private. This was just the latest difficulty she has faced across the advertising and broadcasting industries after a controversy over her great-grandfather’s activities during Japan’s colonial rule of Korea broke in August. The advertisement, which featu