“If it actually airs, it is a drama that will end Korean democracy.”
SBS took an extraordinary measure of canceling all the remaining episodes after airing the fusion historical drama’Chosun-gu Masa’ twice, which was covered by controversy over historical failures and controversy over historical figures. At the same time,’Snow Ganghwa’, which is scheduled to be aired on JTBC in June, was also on the cutting board due to controversy over history distortion.
This drama is a romance drama based on the democratization movement and espionage, and netizens are spreading the drama outline (synopsis) released to the outside, raising concerns that it could undermine democracy in Korea and justify the dictatorship.
According to the outline of’Seolganghwa’ posted on the online community on the 26th, the drama is set in Seoul in 1987, when the anti-dictatorship struggle reached its peak. It starts with falling in love after being healed.
However, the reversal setting of this drama is that Suho is actually a Nampa armed spy, and an employee of the National Security Planning Department (predecessor of the National Intelligence Service) appears as a helper of Youngcho.
Regarding this, a netizen said, “The names of the male protagonists and female protagonists remind me of real sportsmen, but they were not spies.” “There is a problem with setting it up as an espionage,” he pointed out.
In some cases, even conspiracy theories appeared. There are also posts claiming that the contents of the drama deprecate democracy and that the intention is to deepen the left-right confrontation within South Korea by beautifying the North Korean communist regime (spy) and the dictatorship (the Ministry of Security).
Unlike in the past, while the public has become extremely sensitive to the contents of dramas dealing with historical facts, in the case of’Seolganghwa’, the controversy is growing even more as it deals with modern history that can lead to political problems.
It is reported that the drama production company is planning to find and correct all problematic scenes while continuing internal monitoring.
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