What kind of Hiatus:
One where the TV show does not come back next season.
What you call getting laid off from work.
They tell you to kick rocks, they are not going to work on it any more type ?
I have seen this one out of Japan. The author went to jail, and the publicists is saying Hiatus.
The only true hiatus I have seen deals with "The dungeon master". Like Israel, Korea has mandatory service.
He is in the army now.