 |
| SBS’Chosun-gu Massa’ © News 1 |
SBS new drama’Chosun Gumasa’ was caught up in a controversy over history distortion, and was in the middle of an amnesty.
SBS’s new Monday-Tuesday drama’Chosun-gu Masa’ (played by Gye-ok Park/Director Shin-Soo Shin), first aired on the 22nd, was set in the drama from episode 1, and some scenes were caught up in a controversy over history distortion.
‘Joseongu Masa’ depicts the bloody struggle of humans to protect the people and evil spirits who use human desires to devour Joseon. Exorcism was added to the imagination that Lee Bang-won (Taejong), who was on a patrol in the north, confronts a strange entity trying to reign over humans.
‘Chosun Gumasa’ emphasized that real characters appear through publicity before the broadcast and subtitles of the main broadcast, but it is a drama drawn with fictional imagination and an original view of the world.
However, viewers pointed out that’Joseongu Masa’ distorted the actual history and characters. The scene where Taejong saw the illusion of his deceased father, Lee Seong-gye, felt extreme fear and slaughtered the people with his mad eyes. In addition, in the scene where Chungnyeong (played by Jang Dong-yoon) brought Father John to Joseon, the food served in the Uiju region, where the Ming Dynasty borders the border with the Ming Dynasty, was Chinese food, raising controversy. This point, in particular, received protests from viewers, coupled with an atmosphere that has become sensitive to the distortion of Korean traditional culture recently and that Chinese companies PPL are frequent in recent Korean dramas.
Some viewers also noted that the previous work of writer Park Gye-ok of “Chosun Gumasa” was also controversial about history distortion in the tvN drama “The Queen of Iron Man” (2020). ‘Queen of Iron Man’ has been pointed out in that he portrayed real-life characters in a fictional way, like the lines of’The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty is Jirashi’ and’Masa Chosun Gumasa’.
After the first broadcast was over, viewers posted a number of protests on the viewer’s bulletin board of SBS’Chosungu Masa’. As the controversy grew, the’Chosun Gumasa’ side said, “In order to emphasize the situation in which the third prince, Chungnyeong Daegun (played by Jang Dong-yoon) had to move a long distance to the Chinese border instead of Yangnyeong Daegun (played by Park Sung-hoon), the crown prince We set up a place called’near Uiju’ (the border of the Ming Dynasty) and processed subtitles.
“It was a place to rest the Kumasa Priests’ group from the West Station who just came to Joseon through the Ming Dynasty, and since it is an area close to the Ming Dynasty border, we prepared props with the imagination of’there wasn’t there a lot of Chinese traffic’.”
The production crew said, “This was just a setting to explain the location of the characters in the far away from Hanyang in the play, and there was no special intention at all.” And I will try to pay attention to future broadcast production.”
Although the production crew emphasized that it was directed’without intention’, viewers are expressing their intention to’boycott’ to’Chosun-gu Masa’ in a more powerful and active way. A petition was posted on the Cheong Wa Dae’s public petition bulletin board stating that “a request to immediately stop the airing of the historical distortion Northeast Fair Drama “Chosun Gu Massa” was spread quickly online, and 64,000 people agreed as of 8 a.m. on the 24th. .
Some viewers are continuing pressure on companies that provide sponsorship, production support, and advertisements for’Chosun-gu Masa’. Brand Kojima announced that it has withdrawn all production support and advertisements for’Chosun Gumasa’, and announced that it will stop advertising for Ace beds as soon as possible. LG H&H also said it would withdraw the advertisements organized in the’Chosun-gu Massa’ program.
As viewers declared’boycott’ beyond mere’refusal to watch’,’Chosun-gu Masa’ was in the middle of an amnesty. The intensity of criticism against the production crew and cast is also increasing day by day. The second episode, broadcast amid controversy, recorded an audience rating of 6.9% on a national basis of Nielsen Korea, down 2.0 percentage points from the first episode.