MBC Reporters Banned from Flying on Presidential Plane
It looks like the Yoon administration has decided to get back at MBC after they reported that President Yoon used an expletive against President Joe Biden. The Yoon administration claimed the expletive was directed towards the Korean National Assembly. The sound quality of the clip was poor and not definitive, but MBC captioned it anyway to say Joe Biden. This led to an entire news cycle of negative headlines for Yoon:
President Yoon Suk-yeol said Thursday that important national interests are at stake during presidential overseas trips, after his office decided to ban local TV station MBC’s reporters from boarding Air Force One to cover his upcoming trip to Southeast Asia.
The presidential office informed MBC of the decision Wednesday, two days before Yoon departs for his tour of Cambodia and Indonesia, citing the broadcaster’s repeated “distorted” coverage.
“The president goes on overseas trips using taxpayer money because important national interests are at stake,” Yoon told reporters as he arrived for work Thursday. “We’ve been providing a service to help with coverage of foreign policy and security issues, and I’d like you to accept it in those terms.”
The presidential office did not specify which reports were distorted, but MBC has been at the center of controversy after it broadcast a video of Yoon walking out of an event in New York in September and telling his aides in vulgar language that it would be embarrassing if the National Assembly did not approve of something unspecified.
MBC subtitled the video to make it appear that Yoon was referring to U.S. President Joe Biden, but the presidential office denied there was any mention of Biden and claimed the word he used was in reference to the National Assembly. Yoon’s remarks caught on a hot mic were difficult to hear because of background noise.
“The boarding of the presidential jet has been a service provided to help with coverage of foreign policy and security issues, and in consideration of MBC’s repeated distorted and biased coverage of foreign policy issues recently, we have decided not to provide the service,” the presidential office said in a notice to the company.
Korea Times
You can read more at the link, but MBC was taken over by the Korean left years ago with the threat of violence from labor unions and legal attacks. Even further back MBC was well known for the fake news they put out about U.S. beef causing mad cow disease that led to massive anti-US and anti-government riots in South Korea.
GI Korea, why not just ban MBC? Why you’re at it, also ban KBS, YTN, Yonhap, Reuter, CNN, JTBC, BBC, and all of the others.
Just leave Chosun Ilbo, that’s Korea’s only media allowed.
Rightwinger Trumpians arise!
Wow!
Is GI Korea is getting into the consipracy theory spreading, left bashing bandwagon?
I could spend the time trying to explain to GI Korea on how his conclusions are wrong, but on the other hand why waste my time when he will post that same stuff over again.
However I will say that GI Korea’s handicap namely his lack of fluency of the Korean language is clearly showing here.
Because had he been fluent in Korean he probably would have watched that video and had a better understanding of what was being said and reached a different conclusion than the current “MBC spread fake news” BS, which he is blindly parroting.
On the other hand, if he did watch that video and reached the conclusion shown in his original post, then well, to put it mildly, it would be very disappointing.