Recently, controversy arose in the online community after claims were raised that director Byun Seong-hyun of 'Gil Bok-soon' is 'Ilbe' (an abbreviation for Daily Best, an extreme right-wing community site).
The basis for the claim is a scene in the play where Cha Min-gyu (Sol Kyeong-gu) proposes a mission to Gil Bok-soon (Jeon Do-yeon). Killers are given missions through envelopes with grades such as A, B, and C written on them, and Gil Bok-soon, a grade A, receives envelopes marked with regions and countries such as 'Vladivostok-Russia' and 'Seoul-Korea' . Among them, the envelope that the low-level killer receives is said to be 'Suncheon-Jeolla' and is sealed with a red seal, but it is written as 'Suncheon-Jeolla' rather than 'Suncheon-Korea', which is said to be Ilbe's unique way of belittling. It is pointed out that the red seal is also reminiscent of the word 'red'.
In addition, one of the reasons why Ilbe claimed that Gwanggaeto the Great, Eulji Mundeok, Kim Gu, and Ahn Jung-geun, who were mentioned as people included in the 100,000 won note, was said to have 'killed people.'
Regarding this, Netflix said to Ten Asia on the 3rd, "In 'Gil Bok-soon,' the global contract killing company MK ENT. assigns jobs that match the killers' grades. A-level killers like 'Gil Bok-soon' also receive global work, so 'Vladivostok' - While nationality is indicated as 'Russia' or 'Seoul-Korea', C-level killers like Han Hee-seong only do domestic work, so they are indicated by region without country," he said . “It is a setting to show the difference in work size by killer level, so there is no political “There is no intention or reason,” he said.
Director Byun Seong-hyun was embroiled in the Ilbe controversy by posting remarks on social media at the time of the release of the movie 'Bad Guy: World of Bad Guys', such as "Eat skate before your date, you will get drunk from the scent" and "This is all because of Mr. Moon."
Afterwards, Director Byun said on his SNS, "I apologize to everyone who was hurt by the vulgar remarks I made without thinking, but I am not a regionalist or a feminist at all. My hometown is Jeolla-do, and people who constantly degrade specific regions and women. He explained, “I hate it the most.”
Choi Ji-ye, Ten Asia Reporter wisdomart@tenasia.co.kr