In the continued fallout over the exits of \u201cHawaii Five-0\u201d cast members Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park, an advocacy group for Korean and Asian Americans has issued a call to action against CBS. The Council of Korean Americans (CKA) announced on Friday that it…<\/b>
\nIn the continued fallout over the exits of \u201cHawaii Five-0\u201d cast members Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park, an advocacy group for Korean and Asian Americans has issued a call to action against CBS.
The Council of Korean Americans (CKA) announced on Friday that it has asked its constituents to place phone calls to CBS Television Studios president David Stapf and head of drama development Bryan Seabury to voice complaints over contract negotiations that led the two actors to leave the cop procedural.
\u201cThis issue goes beyond compensation, \u201d the statement read. \u201cIt highlights the ongoing problem of lack of diversity in Hollywood and that people of color, especially Asians, are considered peripheral, second-class and disposable.\u201d
CKA director of communications May Lee added that the group is in \u201cstrong disapproval of CBS\u2019 handling of negotiations with actors Grace Park and Daniel Dae Kim .\u201d
CBS said in a statement on Wednesday that it offered \u201clarge and significant salary increases\u201d to Kim and Park in an attempt to retain the two cast members, who have played Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua respectively since its launch in September 2010.
Executive producer Peter Lenkov posted a similar message to social media on Thursday, saying that the departures are \u201cheartbreaking\u201d but that Kim and Park turned down \u201cunprecedented raises.\u201d
Kim wrote on Facebook on Tuesday that he and the network \u201cweren\u2019 t able to agree to terms on a new contract, so I made the difficult choice not to continue\u2026 The path to equality is rarely easy.\u201d
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