'Smoking controversy' Kian 84, is SNL production team not responsible?

While cartoonist and broadcaster Kian84 is embroiled in controversy over indoor smoking, it is pointed out that the SNL production team is also not free from responsibility. Even if Kian84 acted unexpectedly on live broadcast, the production team has the obligation to include the smoking scene in the script and control it. The issue raised by some is focused only on Kian 84, and the production team is seen as having no responsibility, which is the theory of responsibility.

On the 27th, on Coupang Play's SNL, Kian84 appeared as cartoonist Kim Hee-min in the 'I Love You Studio' corner and said, "I am serializing 'Fashion King' in the magazine Treasure Island. I am older, so I definitely have to get married this time, but I don't think it will work out today." Suddenly he took out a cigarette and lit it.

The crew who saw this was surprised and an incident occurred that stopped Kian 84. He said, "It's an old broadcast. It was allowed to smoke on broadcasts in the 1990s." This is a parody of MBC TV's 'Studio of Love', which aired in 1994, and recreates the days when smoking was allowed.

At the end of the broadcast, Ahn Young-mi pretended to put a cigarette in her mouth, saying, "Park Na-rae, Jeon Hyun-moo, and even our crew were really anxious. The audience must have been of the same mind." He said, “He treated me so well that I thought I was anxious for no reason.” The filming site was completed without any problems, but after the broadcast, there was a debate about Kian84's smoking scene.

There are opinions that it is appropriate for the 1990s concept, while there are conflicting opinions that the contra should not do anything harmful. Even if it was Kian84's sudden ad-lib, the SNL production team cannot be said to be responsible for the situation in which he produced the cigarette smoking scene.

This wasn't the first time a smoking scene was revealed on SNL. In the 'X Office episode' released last week, the smoking scene was revealed without any addition or subtraction. Accordingly, netizens who defend Kian 84 responded, “There was a smoking scene in the last episode, so why is it such a problem only this time?”

Ten Asia Reporter Lee So-jeong forusojung@tenasia.co.kr