From the day before the first episode of’Joseon-gu Masa’ was aired, from the day before to 7 am on the 24th, nearly 700 articles were poured out on the free bulletin board of the Mungyeong City website, saying, “Please stop supporting Joseon-gu Masa”.
Mungyeong City is providing incentives up to 10 million won for filming movies and dramas in the region. It is to promote attractions and revitalize the local economy.
In the case of filming more than 5 times in Mungyeong among domestic and international movies and videos with a net production cost of 300 million won or more, 20% of the production cost, such as room and board expenses, fuel expenses, auxiliary contributions, and heavy equipment usage fees, will be provided.
Munkyung City, which introduced the incentive support project for the first time in 2019, provided incentives to’Chosun-gu Masa’ last year.
As such facts become known, netizens are demanding to withdraw their support for’Chosun-gu Masa’, which has been controversial over history distortion.
In the free bulletin board of the Mungyeong City homepage, “The public opinion is not good enough for advertisers to withdraw their advertisements. Is Mungyeong City planning to continue to support it?”, “Support with national tax? Please stop” and “I ask you to withdraw the support for the production of dramas contributing to the Northeast Project right away.”
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In fact, the advertising industry is also showing a’stop loss’ movement one by one.
More than 1,700 complaints from related viewers were received by the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCC) on the previous day, and an article requesting the suspension of broadcasting on the Blue House National Petition bulletin board has been posted.
Earlier, a number of netizens raised suspicion of distortion of history, saying that Chinese-style accessories such as mooncakes appeared in the scene where Chungnyeong Daegun served food to Father John (Dalsey Parquet), a priest of Guma, during the first episode of’Chosun Gumasa’.
In addition, as it became known as the work of the author Park Gye-ok of the tvN drama’Queen of Iron Man’, which was covered in controversy over the history of the story of the Joseon Dynasty, which is a UNESCO World Record Heritage and National Treasure, the story of the Joseon Dynasty is called “a piece of paper,” a suspicion that the writer Park is not a Korean-Chinese.
Among them, the production crew of’Chosun Gumasa’ explained that the controversy over the distortion of history was set to explain the dated characters, but there was no special intention.
The production crew said in a statement on the previous day, “To emphasize the situation in which the Chungnyeong Daegun (played by Jang Dong-yoon) had to travel a long distance to the Chinese border to bring the western shaman, a place called’near Uiju (the Ming Dynasty border)’ was decided. It was a setting to describe the location of the characters in the far outskirts,” he explained.
He then apologized, saying, “I am sorry for the inconvenience caused by this scene that could be misunderstood during the sensitive period,” and “I will pay attention to the production in the future.”
On the other hand, according to the statistics of the audience rating research company Nielsen Korea, the second episode of’Chosun-gu Masa’ broadcasted the day before recorded an audience rating of 4.5% for the first part and 6.9% for the second part.
Compared to the viewership ratings of 5.7% for the first part and 8.9% for the second part, which were broadcast on the 22nd, this figure has decreased by 1.2% and 2.0%, respectively.