After a four-year hiatus since her last drama in 2021, South Korean actress Jun Ji-hyun's comeback isn't panning out quite how she intended.

Tempest, now streaming on Disney+, has blown up online but not in the way the 43-year-old star's fans expected.

Jun is being accused by angry Chinese viewers of being anti-China.

In episode four, her character, a former United Nations-turned-presidential candidate, asks: “Why would China prefer war? That way, nuclear bombs would fall along the border areas.”

That single line set off a firestorm with Chinese netizens branding it as “fabricated” and “politically defamatory”.

“If China favours war, South Korea will no longer be a country,” one fumed.

Others took aim at Jun Ji-hyun herself, saying she should have been smarter with her comeback choic

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