The KBS 1TV historical drama ‘Taejong Lee Bang-won’, which was embroiled in controversy over ‘animal abuse’ due to the shooting of a camel that killed a horse, was reviewed by the Korea Communications Standards Commission.
An official from the Vigilante Committee said on the 25th, “A total of 857 complaints have been received so far,” and “As complaints have been received, we are reviewing them.”
In the 7th episode of ‘Taejong Lee Bang-won’, which aired on the 1st, the scene where Lee Seong-gye fell off the horse was broadcast. It became known that the horse died a week following filming, and the animal cruelty controversy arose. In the broadcast production video released by the Animal Freedom Coalition, the controversy grew as the horse broke its neck and forcibly fell down.
On the 21st, the Animal Freedom Coalition filed a complaint once morest KBS officials for violating the Animal Protection Act, and posted an article on the Blue House public petition bulletin board titled, ‘We need to prepare measures for animals whose safety and survival are threatened for broadcast shooting’. As of the followingnoon of the 25th, regarding 142,000 people had signed the petition.
An official from the vigilance committee said, “We are reviewing the scenes of horses jumping and falling in the broadcast.
According to the current vigilance committee regulations, Article 26 (Respect for Life) in Section 3 Prohibition of Violation of Rights, and Article 37 (Shock Repulsion) in Section 5 Materials and Expression Techniques stipulate scenes regarding animals.
Article 26 Paragraph 3 states that, even if necessary for the development of the content, caution should be exercised in the expression when dealing with scenes of cruelty or killing of animals.
Article 37 provides content that should not be broadcast because it may give viewers excessive shock, anxiety, or disgust. Cruel and disastrous scenes of animal killing, cruel depictions such as beheading, teaching, and mutilation, scenes of mutilated bodies and bodies, crimes or other incidents · It stipulates excessively detailed descriptions of scenes in which casualties occurred due to accidents.
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