[naver] PARK JONG-CHEOL'S REPRESENTATIVE RELEASES THEIR STANCE REGARDING SNOWDROP ft. SPONSORS LEAVING, DISNEY+ KOREA RESPONSE, VIEWERS RATINGS
Posted on December 19, 2021
[naver] PATRIOTIC MARTYR PARK JONG-CHEOL'S REP "SNOWDROP" IS INFLICTING A SECOND ROUND OF ASSAULT TO THE VICTIMS DUE TO THE DISTORTION OF SPIES
(T/N: From Wiki - In the 1980s, as president of the student council in the linguistics department of Seoul National University, [Park Jong-Cheol] was one of activists in universities struggling against Chun Doo-hwan's dictatorship and the aftermath of the 1980 Gwangju Massacre. Detained during an investigation into such activities, Park refused to confess the whereabouts of one of his fellow activists. During the interrogation, authorities used waterboarding techniques to torture him, eventually leading to his death on 14 January.)
T/N: the below is paraphrased
On the 20th, a representative of the Democratic Martyr Park Jong-cheol Memorial Foundation told CBS No-cut News on the 20th, "The three axes of state power, the NSA, the Headquarters of National Police, and the security officer, carried out the government's violence against the people at the time. It was carried out systematically, and torture and violence were used as means of control by instilling fear in the daily life of the people.”
"Violence and torture trampled on a person's dignity and created a sense of fear and humiliation. The scars cannot be recovered. I'm afraid that victims will recall even a fragment of the memory of their suffering, so I cannot tell you in detail."
The article also points out that linking the democratic movement or the NSA with spies could eventually rationalize and justify their acts of violence which will result in a second round of abuse for the victims. The democratic movement and NSA should never be linked to spies because many students and protestors were killed and tortured by being falsely labeled as North Korean spies. In the drama 'Snowdrop', the NSA is chasing after the real spy which is being hidden by the female student which justifies the acts of the NSA.
The representative also commented about the production team of Snowdrop and JTBC saying that they are romanticizing the horrible past and distorting history.
original post: here
1. [+944, -20]
Thanks to whom can you make dramas and live freely while enjoying democracy? If you have a brain and any conscience, try something called thinking. Don't let these people who call themselves "Korean" come forward and distort Korean history and disparage the democratization movement. The victims and people involved are still alive with their eyes freshly sharpened. What are you doing? Are you out of your mind?
2. [+528, -11]
This is seriously the endㅋㅋㅋ Snowdrop's early cancellation, good work
3. [+361, -4]
Just how scary is the power of the media? They need to know some shame seeing how Korean contents are being the hot issue around the world and that Korean historical dramas are being viewed internationally. It wasn't enough for them to inflict secondary damage to the victims? Should Moon Hae-In just shut his eyes down because he thinks of it as fiction? Seriously, there are so many crazy people blinded by money
4. [+341, -5]
They are belittling the democracy that was achieved by our ancestors who bled to death? They can't be in their right minds. Scrap everything
5. [+185, -4]
Honestly, there's no way someone who likes history would film this without knowing anything. There's no way they don't know about 1987
[theqoo] SMALL BUSINESS WHO SAW EXPLODING SALES AFTER CANCELLING THEIR SUPPORT FOR SNOWDROP+ RELEASED AN APOLOGY
Ssarijai Market: They have already edited everything until episode 12 so it will be hard for them to make any corrections, which worries us. Although we have strongly asked them (to remove their props)...
We are thankful for your actions. I participated in a democratization protest as a freshman in 1989, and for that, I'm embarrassed.
I too have signed the petition.
Picture: We apologize for our props support to JTBC's Snowdrop
(t/n: we will not translate the whole apology for the sake of time. Condensed format only)
- They have received a call last December to become a sponsor from the show's props team
- They have no experience, as a small business, sponsoring props, so they have decided to make the deal thinking it will help them advertise
- They only knew about the actors participating in the show, not the content of the show
- They acknowledge that SD has many parts distorting the pro-democratization movement, and they have called the show immediately to withdraw their support
- They said they've already completed editing everything until episode 12 so it would be hard to re-edit
- It's possible that Ssarijai's logo is found until ep. 12
- Apologize over participating in a drama that shows no consideration in distorting history
Aftermath
T/n: paraphrased
title: Due to the inflow of orders, delivery might be delayed.
- Thank you for finding our business
- There were a lot of people who put their order after December 19th 4PM with Ssarijai (t/n: their official apology was uploaded at 6PM on the 19th, but the Katalk chat between the netizen and Ssarijai mentioning them pulling out has already started spreading before the apology, around 4PM)
- They're doing the best to fill the in the orders, but it's possible that their supplies might be lacking
- It will be hard for them to ship everything until 9AM on Monday.
original post: here
1. People are warm
2. Leave me some red bean porridgeㅠㅠㅠㅠ
3. I just bought some pollack powderㅋㅋㅋㅋ
4. My red bean porridgeㅠㅠㅠ
5. Pigs, leave me some
6. This is so cool
7. Please prosper
8. I just bought tea and rice cakes
9. Don't underestimate us pigs ability🐷
10. the pigs did a good job🐷👍
[theqoo] TEAZEN'S COMMENT ON IG REGARDING THEIR INVOLVEMENT WITH SNOWDROP
OP: I heard you were a sponsor for SD? I'm disappointed
Teazen: Teazen has never sponsored the production of SD, we were just shown through a simple advertisement, but we have immediately requested them to stop. We apologize for unintentionally hurting you and making you uncomfortable.
They were revealed to be one of the advertisements before the show aired
original post: here
1. I'm enjoying their productㅎㅎ
2. Their official statement
- This is Teazen, specialty tea brand
- We bow our head down and apologize due to the concern of the advertisement sponsorship
- We have not directly participated in the production of the show, we only paid for simple advertisement
- We have cancelled our sponsorship
- We have no involvement in anything related to the drama's prouction
3. I'm heading towards Teazen for their kombucha
4. I'm enjoying their product so much~~ I'm happy to be able to continue enjoying them
5. Their berry flavored kombucha is f*cking delicious. I just bought 6 boxes
6. I only buy Teazenㅠㅠㅠ This is a reliefㅠㅠㅠ
7. I was scared I wouldn't be able to enjoy Teazen's tea anymore
8. Teazen's roasting tea is f*cking nice. I was worried, but this is a relief
9. Teazen❤️
10. Ah f*ck I almost had to stop drinking kombucha..
