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‘Burning Sun documentary released’ BBC officially apologizes to KBS
KBS said, "In the documentary 'Burning Sun: Stories of women who exposed the secret chat rooms of K-pop stars' broadcast by the British public broadcaster BBC on its YouTube channel on the 19th, 'KBS lawyer contacted and put pressure on the victim of Jung Joon-young.' “We acknowledged that what was mentioned was not true and officially apologized to KBS.”
Next, "BBC sent an official statement to KBS early this morning, Korean time, acknowledging that there were errors due to their own mistakes in the documentary released on the 'BBC News Korea' and 'BBC World Service' YouTube channels, and immediately corrected the He added, “They said they deleted that part and modified it.”
“In addition, in the narration of the documentary, it was revealed that the legal advice that Jung Joon-young’s ex-girlfriend received was not from a KBS lawyer, but ‘it was confirmed that it was independent legal advice obtained directly by the ex-girlfriend herself,’” he said. “This error is “I want to make it clear that it was a mistake made by the BBC, not by the reporter who interviewed him,” he said.
KBS also emphasized, "BBC has announced on the platform that this error has been deleted and corrected," and "BBC said that this incident was an error resulting from an unintentional misunderstanding, and that it sincerely apologizes to KBS." .
Meanwhile, the BBC released a documentary related to the Burning Sun incident through its YouTube channel on the 19th, and in this video, a story was revealed that 'KBS lawyer pressured the female victim of Jung Joon-young.' In response, KBS requested a corrected report, saying that the information was untrue.
Below is KBS’ full statement:
In the documentary <Burning Sun: Stories of women who exposed the secret chat rooms of K-pop stars> broadcast by the British public broadcaster BBC on its YouTube channel on the 19th, it was mentioned that 'a KBS lawyer contacted and pressured the victim of Jung Joon-young.' He acknowledged that what he said was not true and officially apologized to KBS.
The BBC sent an official statement to KBS early this morning, Korean time, acknowledging that there were errors due to their own mistakes in the documentary released on the 'BBC News Korea' and 'BBC World Service' YouTube channels, and immediately corrected the relevant part. They said it had been deleted and modified.
Additionally, in the documentary's narration, it was revealed that the legal advice that Jung Joon-young's ex-girlfriend received was not from a KBS lawyer, but rather, "It was confirmed that it was independent legal advice obtained directly from the ex-girlfriend herself." He added, “I would like to clearly state that this error was the mistake of the BBC, not the reporter Park Hyo-sil, who interviewed him.”
The BBC has notified the platform that it has removed and corrected the error.
The BBC said that this incident was an error resulting from an unintentional misunderstanding and that it sincerely apologized to KBS.
Choi Ji-ye, Ten Asia Reporter wisdomart@tenasia.co.kr
