Korean Drama Criticized for Having North Korean Spy Pretend to be a Pro-Democracy Protester
The Korean left is suddenly worried about a drama distorting history. I wonder if the criticism of the show will actually drive up viewership?:
JTBC’s new series, “Snowdrop,” which was embroiled in a controversy over distorting history since before it even aired, has stirred up a further backlash, with viewers accusing the series of distorting the history of Korea’s pro-democracy movement.
Korea Times
Since it premiered on Saturday, the romance series, set in 1987 amid the period of political unrest, has faced growing calls for its cancellation, with some of the companies dropping their sponsorship of the show.
The series, starring K-pop star Jisoo of BLACKPINK and actor Jung Hae-in, follows a romance between a first-year student at a women’s university, Eun Young-ro (Jisoo), and a North Korean spy, Lim Soo-ho (Jung), who is hiding his identity under the cover of being a graduate student. One day, Soo-ho jumps into her dormitory covered in blood. Mistaking him as a pro-democracy protester against the military dictatorship, Young-ro tends to his injuries, despite the dangerous situation and develops romantic feelings for him.
On Sunday, an online petition was submitted on the Cheong Wa Dae website, calling for the network to stop the series from being aired. It garnered over 267,000 signatures in one day.
The petitioner pointed out that the series has diminished the history of the pro-democracy movement in the country by portraying a North Korean spy as a protestor.
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The truth hurts I guess
This proves it. ROKDrop believes Chun Doo Hwan did good torturing and killing thousands of “commies”.
Anybody who tortures and kills commies is good.
Except for other commies.
They get no special recognition because they are just doing their job.
The fact that there have always been left-wing, right-wing, and centrists in the so-called “pro-democracy” movement is never considered by extremists of either “wing.”
In the video game “Phoenix Point”, the three factions the player (who controls the eponymous unaligned organization) needs to coordinate with are essentially Nazis (“New Jericho”), Communists (“Synedrion”), and what amounts to religious zealots (“Disciples of Anu”). The enemies include those who overindulged in cybernetics and lost their humanity, those who overindulged in mutations and went mad, and the Pandorians warped into fish-like, crab-like, and insect-like monsters. Much like our trolls.
Seems like that’s Korea’s history, too. And America’s.
Looks like we need some “Mist Repellers” around here.