It seems like there is still backlash about the snowdrop drama even after jtbc's clarification

Jeez it ain’t even out yet. The plot isn’t even out yet.

The clarification made thing worse with mentioning dark comedy

With all sue respect they didn’t clarify shit, they know koreans want “no spy/NIS” not mentioning black comedy/melodrama. They completely disregarded what people were asking about.

Jisoo should just drop out.

This drama screams trouble now

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Jisoo should just drop out.

Why? Something she auditioned for and was chosen amongst a lot of other actresses who also auditioned. Something she has been working hard on.

She should drop out because? Is she in charge of production or is she the one calling the shots on how the series goes or is she involved in some personal scandal?

This reddit post has an interesting explanation on it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kpopt…cotting_snowdrop_starring

Why would YG allow Jisoo to act in a such problematic drama?

Thread TV stations etc better lie low. Knetz are out for blood

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from what I understood first synopsis was kind of revealing a bit that there will be some romance between student and some spy - seems like spy was from "other side of barricade"...

but honestly... things like that happen all the time in real life, there were even things like that happening during freakin WWII when some people were taking decisions to just drop everything because they fell in love with "enemy" and they runned together away to Argentina, Brazil, or any other far away place that was "safe" at this point..

Well, tell that to Knetz. They are our for blood

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I don't think that's possible, she has been filming for a long time already, it's either they continue with the whole cast or everyone drops out, or a better but more difficult option, make adjustments to the drama to avoid backlash when it airs

Its going to get backlash either way now.

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Why? Something she auditioned for and was chosen amongst a lot of other actresses who also auditioned. Something she has been working hard on.

She should drop out because? Is she in charge of production or is she the one calling the shots on how the series goes or is she involved in some personal scandal?

Why?

So you want Jisoo to get insane backlash and sponsorships to drop her and maybe other BP girls because thats how insane stuff is in Korea atm.

Also Jisoo character is named after a protestor which shouldnt happen.

Look how Koreans reacted at the bullying incidents that didn't affect them personally. Now consider this point in Korean history that involved the entire nation and affected millions of Koreans one way or another. You'd be extremely biased if you think Koreans won't stop until the drama is completely cancelled. Literally this is the worst time politically to release something like that, maybe in better times, but not now.

I don't know about this Korean history nor about what the drama is about but just reading the op it sounds like the historical event was Korea protesting for a democracy like what happened with the Arab Spring but the drama distorts certain facts which is angering knetz? But jtbc responds basically saying it's their own fictional version.

It's a grey area. One the one hand it's being marketed as a fictionalised version so it's their own story and should be allowed to on ground of creativity, but on the other hand difficult real world events especially involving death aren't really the best source to make fictional stuff from. Like we had multiple terrorist attacks here over the last few years and if a company wanted to make a drama out of them im sure there would be a huge uproar about. Or even specific things like making a drama out of the disappearance of Madeline Mcann would certainly not sit well with a lot of people.

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from what I understood first synopsis was kind of revealing a bit that there will be some romance between student and some spy - seems like spy was from "other side of barricade"...

but honestly... things like that happen all the time in real life, there were even things like that happening during freakin WWII when some people were taking decisions to just drop everything because they fell in love with "enemy" and they runned together away to Argentina, Brazil, or any other far away place that was "safe" at this point...

The main issue is not really the spy but the NSA character whose the second male lead Im pretty sure.

National Security Agency official Lee Kang-mu, a principled man who never backs down, a stickler for rules who does not compromise.

NSA were killing people and doing alot of forture and causing deaths.

anybody got a sense of what the GP's reaction to this is compared to the knetz...

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I don't know about this Korean history nor about what the drama is about but just reading the op it sounds like the historical event was Korea protesting for a democracy like what happened with the Arab Spring but the drama distorts certain facts which is angering knetz? But jtbc responds basically saying it's their own fictional version.

It's a grey area. One the one hand it's being marketed as a fictionalised version so it's their own story and should be allowed to on ground of creativity, but on the other hand difficult real world events especially involving death aren't really the best source to make fictional stuff from. Like we had multiple terrorist attacks here over the last few years and if a company wanted to make a drama out of them im sure there would be a huge uproar about. Or even specific things like making a drama out of the disappearance of Madeline Mcann would certainly not sit well with a lot of people.

The main issue this.

National Security Agency official Lee Kang-mu, a principled man who never backs down, a stickler for rules who does not compromise.

NSA were killing people and doing real bad torture.

Read this.

yeah because 20 comments from pann really shows what the GP is thinking

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Its going to get backlash either way now.

Why?

So you want Jisoo to get insane backlash and sponsorships to drop her and maybe other BP girls because thats how insane stuff is in Korea atm.

Also Jisoo character is named after a protestor which shouldnt happen.

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Which sponsorships will drop Jisoo cuz of this?

This is not her doing or it is not her decisions that have made this issue arise.

Please, she is not going to lose any personal sponsorships from this.

Not from Dior, or Michaa or Line.

Even if it’s their twist and different version Koreans are nationalistic and very proud of their culture. Look at how they reacted to AOA Jim-in and Seolhyun history scandal. I feel bad for Jisoo though. She worked hard for this drama but for the sake of her image she can do another role.

And Mr. Queen drama got some black-lash for distortions but JTBC really did screw themselves over with this one.

They should cancel at this point, it's clear these people don't want that period portrayed at all even if it's not done in a completely serious/undermining way. And they will use jisoo as the main target of their hate when it's not even her fault, fucking clowns

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They should cancel the drama. It's clear at this point that this is what knetz want

Jisoo was already going to get a ton of hate as an idol-actress. These new issues on top of that will completely ruin her rep in Korea before she even gets to properly debut as an actress. Knetz are out for blood right now - Snowdrop hasn't even aired and they're like this. It doesn't help that Jisoo is under YG and YG was also involved with another drama recently cancelled for distorting history. I'm sad for her and it would suck sm for all her work so far to go to waste but it's way too risky for her future in Korea to let her act in this drama

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They should cancel the drama. It's clear at this point that this is what knetz want

Jisoo was already going to get a ton of hate as an idol-actress. These new issues on top of that will completely ruin her rep in Korea before she even gets to properly debut as an actress. Knetz are out for blood right now - Snowdrop hasn't even aired and they're like this. It doesn't help that Jisoo is under YG and YG was also involved with another drama recently cancelled for distorting history. I'm sad for her and it would suck sm for all her work so far to go to waste but it's way too risky for her future in Korea to let her act in this drama

I feel bad for Jisoo, considering this is her first drama. But yeah it needs to be canceled.

They will continue to hate on her.

Its better this way

She couldn't pick a roncom to act

Gonna post this here too for people who are confused what they are pissed about:

I'm not korean so I'll just explain what I read from koreans what the outrage is about. It's rumoured to be about the protests in the 1980s, where peaceful and innocents protestors (students) were massacred and tortured by the Korean national security officials under the pre tense that they were north korean spies. One of the biggest issues is that they are rumoured to be using real names of real people during the massacre, like the student Jisoo is supposedly playing is called Yeong - Cho, one of the people who saw her friends getting tortured and killed was known to be very smart and intelligent battling against the guards and apparently the drama made her a damsel in distress. They are also painting the peaceful protestors in a negative light by making the main characer an actual north korean spy and painting it so that the national korean guard were right in killing those students. One of the main characters is also part of the korean guards that killed so many students and he's postively portrayed as a handsome male lead.

I'm not korean so I can't really speak on it but apparently the whole incident is still very sensitive for koreans because of how recent it was. It's best that they change things tho if they want to continue this program, idk why JTBC thought it was a good idea.

did they filmed everything already? it will be worse if they wait just to cancel everything in the middle of the broadcast like joseon exorcist

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This is a pretty serious issue especially after the cancellation of joseon exorcist in which yg was also involved, so I wouldn't say it's 20 comments...

They are already witch-hunting Jisoo about not reading khistory and they are going after thai blinks for sending her support trucks when it isn't even their fault.

yikes this is worrying me now

i doubt its going to be cancelled i hope everything works out for jisoo

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Which sponsorships will drop Jisoo cuz of this?

This is not her doing or it is not her decisions that have made this issue arise.

Please, she is not going to lose any personal sponsorships from this.

Not from Dior, or Michaa or Line.

This is much bigger issues then Excorcist which lost like 20 sponsors and investors.. bigger then Mr Queen where lead actress just lost sponsorships.. No way this drama airs so better to be one of the first to quit.

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I feel bad for Jisoo, considering this is her first drama. But yeah it needs to be canceled.

They will continue to hate on her.

Its better this way

Knetz are calling her stupid all over pann and qoo like she's the one who wrote the script and chose the plot herself...

I honestly can't understand why YG would let her take this role as her first drama. Now I'm not sure when we'll ever see her debut as an actress

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Gonna post this here too:

I'm not korean so I'll just explain what I read from koreans what the outrage is about. It's rumoured to be about the protests in the 1980s, where peaceful and innocents protesters (students) were massacred and tortured by the Korean national security officials under the pre tense that they were north korean spies. One of the biggest issues is that they are rumoured to be using real names of real people during the massacre, like the student Jisoo is supposedly playing is called Yeong - Cho, one of the people who saw her friends getting tortured and killed was known to be very smart and intelligent battling against the guards and apparently the drama made her a damsel in distress. They are also painting the peaceful protestors in a negative light by making the main characer an actual north korean spy and painting it so that the national korean guard were right in killing those students.

I'm not korean so I can't really speak on it but apparently the whole incident is still very sensitive for koreans because of how recent it was. It's best that they change things tho if they want to continue this program tho, idk why JTBC thought it was a good idea.

Yeah, thanks for posting this. It’s not about OMG YOU CANT MAKE A DRAMA ABOUT A CERTAIN TIME PERIOD.

It’s that they try to distort history and make it some cute love story while still using real life events and people.

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It will really turn the table when JTBC decides to release the teaser this week and turns out its so different from what people speculating.

The main backlash is regarding this NSA stuff which they already said who he was.

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This is much bigger issues then Excorcist which lost like 20 sponsors and investors.. bigger then Mr Queen where lead actress just lost sponsorships.. No way this drama airs so better to be one of the first to quit.

Yes Dior is going to drop Jisoo as a Global Ambassador cuz of an unaired drama.

Well, the lesson to take from all this

1) never do historic dramas

2) not even if fictional

3) only do silly romcoms based in current times or in the future

4) never ever involve anything chinese, japanese or north korean.

I doubt GP itself cares much. As usual its a few knetz comments (who by the way always happen to sound exactly as nationalistic far right people in the west do) that's get blown up in media, which then ofc gets repurcussions when the sponsors go into overprotection mode and drops everything related.

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it sucks, yg set her up with this one, they should've picked a smaller role for her or a drama with another plot, she was already being compared to other bigger actors who are part of the cast

YG didn't pick this role for her. Am not going to let you disrespect Jisoo like that.

She auditioned and she was picked amongst many other actresses.

YG didn't hand her the role.