Sports Trends on the 24th said, “The Mungyeong Culture and Tourism Foundation conducted a Mungyeong location incentive support project in’Chosun-gu Massa’ last year, and after a recent controversy arose, the approval was posted to Mungyeong-si. The procedure for canceling the incentives applied to is scheduled to proceed,” he reported.
“The project will support 20% of the production expenses such as accommodation expenses, food expenses, fuel expenses, and subsidiary performance expenses in case of filming more than 5 times in Mungyeong among domestic and overseas movies and videos with a net production cost of 300 million won or more.” In the last 2019 drama’My Country’,’Joseon Survival’,’Train’, etc. have benefited,” he explained.
In fact, the city of Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do has said that it will support up to 10 million won for filming movies and dramas in 2019. The introduction of an incentive support system in Gyeongbuk province to promote Mungyeong and revitalize the tourism industry. Accordingly, Mungyeong City provided incentives to’Chosun-gu Masa’ last year.
However, in’Choseongu Masa’, which was first aired on the 22nd, the appearance of Taejong (Gam Woosung) Lee Bang-won, who kills his life, and Chinese-style interiors and mooncakes instead of medicines appeared, and domestic netizens were greatly angry.
Since then, on the free bulletin board of Mungyeong City’s homepage, more than 700 articles to the effect of “Please stop supporting Chosun-gu Masa” have been posted, and protests have erupted.
SBS, conscious of the controversy, said, “Because it is an area close to the Ming Dynasty border, we prepared props with the imagination,’Wouldn’t there be frequent traffic of Chinese people.’ Although it was clarified, there are a lot of articles on viewers’ bulletin boards and Cheong Wa Dae national petitions calling for the airing to stop.
There is also a boycott of brands that support the production of’Chosun Gumasa’. Accordingly, Kwanwon Ho, LG H&H, and Kojima decided to cancel the advertisement. It is reported that Tamna Fish Market and Newon are also discussing follow-up measures such as stopping advertisements.