'Kimi on Liberation Day' KBS President'Sorry for the inconvenience on a national important day, TF launched'
Aug 16, 2024
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President Park Min of KBS said at an executive meeting this morning, `The most important part of KBS was that it was the people who were the owners of KBS and that they should convey accurate information and knowledge to the people so that they could properly judge social issues and gain comfort through broadcasting. On behalf of the executive branch, I sincerely apologize to the people for causing inconvenience to them on a national day.'
President Park Min also said, `Through this, I will think more about the role and responsibility of the public broadcaster, and I will take care of it hard and make efforts.'
KBS immediately launched a 'task force' presided over by the vice president to improve the system in order to urgently improve the current problems revealed. The task force consists of director-level organizations in each field such as reporting, production, organization, technology, personnel, and deliberation.
Earlier, on August 15, the Liberation Day, 'KBS Relay Seat' aired 'The First Part of the Korean Opera Festival Puccini Butterfly'.
'Madame Butterfly' is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini that premiered in 1904 and is set in Nagasaki, Japan, in the 1990s, when the United States forced Japan to open a port. This work, which tells the story of an American soldier Fingerton and Mrs. Butterfly who became a geisha, is dark in Japanese style, with the female protagonist appearing in kimono from start to finish, and the Japanese Kimi song melody is inserted in the wedding scene. Upon Liberation Day, viewers who listened to Kimigayo through public broadcasting and saw the characters wearing kimono visited the KBS viewer counseling room's free bulletin board immediately after the broadcast and strongly protested.
KBS issued an official statement and apologized before the day was over.
KBS said on the 15th that it apologizes for causing concern and disappointment to viewers in relation to the program 'KBS Broadcasting Seat', a performing arts recording broadcast program.
The opera 'Madame Butterfly' is an Italian composer Puccini's work, depicting the tragic love between an American officer and a Japanese woman stationed in Japan, and Kimigayo, the U.S. national anthem and Japanese national anthem, will be played in the wedding scene of the protagonist and the man and woman in the play. The performance was recorded on June 29 and was originally scheduled to air at the end of July, but it was pushed back by the Olympic broadcast, and it was broadcast at dawn on Liberation Day.
In addition, given the changed schedule, we deeply apologize once again for causing a stir on the meaningful Liberation Day due to the production team's negligence to check whether there are any problems with the broadcast content and whether the timeliness is appropriate"We will pay more attention to the production by investigating the broadcast details and holding them accountable in order to prevent this from happening again in the future."I bowed my head
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In the KBS1 weather forecast, which aired just before the 79th Independence Day celebration, the shape of the Taegeukgi was inverted left and right in the graphic used by the weatherman while guiding the weather, which caused public anger.
KBS reported "Today's news program's weather section confirmed that there was a mistake in displaying the image of Taegeukgi and corrected it immediately."
The image of the Korean flag was then included in a part of the background screen at the weatherman appearance corner of '930 News this morning. However, there was a mistake in which the left and right sides of the Taegeukgi were reversed. It was the result of the producer reversing the picture of the Taegeukgi with a computer graphic program to match the scene where the figure was holding the Taegeukgi"KBS revised the image of the Taegeukgi as soon as it confirmed the problem, and the news website is also providing the revised video again. KBS sincerely apologizes for this mistake, and will do its best to produce it by paying close attention to the details so that such problems do not repeat in the future," he apologized.
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