[theqoo] ‘PERFECT CROWN’, WILL IT ULTIMATELY BE TAKEN DOWN…? THE NATIONAL PETITION IS ALREADY AT 77% OF ITS REQUIRED SIGNATURES

A public petition calling for the cancellation of the drama ‘Perfect Crown’, which has been embroiled in controversy over historical distortion, has garnered nearly 80% of the required signatures. 

On the 22nd, a petition calling for the cancellation of ‘Perfect Crown’ was posted on the National Assembly’s public petition board. The petitioner argued, “Repeated instances of clear historical inaccuracies and directing choices suspected of aligning with a specific country’s ‘Northeast Project’ have sparked public outrage.”

The petition is set to expire on June 21; if it garners 50,000 signatures within 30 days, it will be referred to the relevant standing committee. As of 2:00 p.m. on the 25th, approximately 38,000 people had signed the petition, reaching 77% of the target in just three days. 

1. Scrap it. I’m on my way to sign the petition

2. Just signed

3. Scrap this. We need to stop this drama crew to appear at year-end award shows and for the show to come out on Blu-ray

4. Please scrap the whole thing. Don’t ever make a drama like this ever again

5. I thought that they’d scrap it for sure but they didn’t so people had to start a national petition for it. Tsk, this drama has caused so much mess already

6. But if the total number of signatures is reached, will we be able to get rid of it? I can understand the backlash but it seems like this is completely out of our control…

7. The people who say “Don’t feed the troll” just fascinate me 

8. Seeing how everyone is keeping their mouths shut, it seems like politicians received a lot of that Chinese money

9. There are too many f*ckers living off money from selling our country away

10. Politicians were mentioning the Starbucks controversy just fine, so how is that different from this situation? (T/N: Starbucks Korea CEO Sohn Jeong-hyun was fired after the company faced backlash over a “Tank Day” tumbler promotion launched on the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising crackdown. Many Koreans felt the campaign’s “tank” theme insensitively referenced the military vehicles used to suppress pro-democracy protesters during the massacre. The promotion was quickly canceled, and both Starbucks Korea and U.S. headquarters issued apologies, saying the incident was unintentional but deeply inappropriate. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung strongly condemned the campaign, calling it disrespectful to the victims and Korea’s democratic history.)