WHILE followers gear up for Blackpink Jisoo’s first position as a lead actress in Snowdrop, the extremely awaited drama is now embroiled in controversy as civilians file complaints in opposition to the public ads.
One of Jisoo’s followers, generally known as Jisoonly Vietnam, got here up with a plan to arrange stunning digital ads to advertise JTBC’s information drama on the subway stations in Seoul.
However, the promotional plans have made sure South Koreans upset. Previously, Snowdrop confronted blowback all through its promotional actions in 2021 as folks felt that the sequence would distort the nation’s historical past.
The democratic motion and riots in addition to the difficulty of North Korean spies are extremely delicate matters, and lots of really feel that they shouldn’t be romanticised. Although the drama has not aired, the plot and character descriptions that have been leaked sparked outrage and a web based petition was made to cease the manufacturing.
JTBC has issued a protracted and detailed assertion to clear up the misunderstanding and talked about that the drama doesn’t concentrate on the pro-democracy motion and the principle characters aren’t concerned in it. JTBC additional clarified that the characters within the sequence weren’t based mostly on actual life individuals.
Meanwhile, Jisoonly Vietnam introduced their plans for the ads shall be indefinitely delayed. The ads made it out for a number of days between Nov 25 and Nov 29 earlier than they have been taken down.
