It is not yesterday or today that ordinary people appear on entertainment programs. The mating program was <사랑의 스튜디오>There was, sometimes a neighbor who needed help (Love House, new business opening), and sometimes a neighbor worthy of seeing and learning (Lee Kyung-gyu goes) became the main character.
However, as marriage, divorce, and romance became the mainstream genres of entertainment, ordinary performers emerged as the ‘core’ of entertainment programs. In the case of celebrities who are entangled in various contractual relationships, there are bound to be restrictions on their speech and actions, whereas ordinary people are free from restrictions on their actions, which better satisfies the fun of the reality genre.
As dating reality shows with ordinary people as the main characters became popular, as always, similar programs appeared one following another. And latecomers tried to differentiate themselves with more stimulating and more explicit settings. If the early dating reality was focused on meeting and flirting, former lovers appeared together to show how they are looking for a new relationship (Transit Love), and divorced couples met once more and spent time together (We got divorced). ). There is also a program (Oh Eun-young Report-Marriage Hell, Between Marriage and Divorce) that shows the process of counseling by a couple who are in a conflict situation by showing them their daily lives.
It is definitely positive in that it shows various aspects such as separation and conflict, rather than the sweet image of love, romance, and marriage, and even shows how to overcome or shake them off. There is also a cause that empathy or direct or indirect help can be provided to those in similar situations through the conflicts of performers in problematic situations. However, conflicts edited to satisfy voyeuristic curiosity and editing without consideration for the performers who have to return to their daily lives following the broadcast are over are hard to be free from the criticism of ‘consuming other people’s misfortune for fun’.
It’s a problem if you treat it too lightly. Stories that make you think it would be better to go to the family court as soon as possible rather than in front of a broadcasting camera, and people who seem to need treatment rather than love, wear the mask of entertainment and approach viewers as lightly as feathers. As criticism and complaints from viewers poured in, the program was canceled for 3 weeks, and the main character was booked without detention and investigated. <오은영 리포트-결혼지옥> The stepdaughter sexual harassment controversy (aired on December 19, 2022) is a positive example.
Most of all, the adult performers decided to appear on their own, but if the subject of marital conflict is dealt with, the identity of the children is exposed regardless of their will, and the record remains permanently through TV and the Internet. In the case of minor children, they are mosaic-processed and broadcast, but through the faces of their parents, people around them can sufficiently infer them. Young children who are unknowingly exposed with their parents may experience trauma when they grow up. Even adults, in the case of ordinary people who do not realize the propagation power of TV, are highly likely to be unable to predict the followingmath of the followingmath until they experience it.
In an era where multiple platforms and channels compete, creating a show that stands out will not be an easy task. However, humans easily become numb to stimuli. If you try to differentiate yourself by simply satisfying the viewers’ peripheral voyeurism, then you have to create more stimulating content next time.
In the end, it is the producers of content who need to hold the brakes. Awareness that the private life or personality of ordinary people is used only once and is not the subject of entertainment. When the broadcast is over, you need to feel responsible for dealing with a person who needs to go back to their daily lives. Although it will not be easy to satisfy viewers who are already exposed to peripheral pleasures with decent content.
