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omonatheydidEBS Apologizes for Copying Japanese TV Program
The Korea Education Broadcasting System (EBS) apologized Tuesday for plagiarizing a Japanese television program. It said "Sci-Fun", a science experiment program, outsourced to a subcontractor, was found to have copycatted a similar Japanese TV program.
The program in question was aired July 23 and carried out experiments regarding musical instruments and paper cup phones.
However, the experiments borrowed ideas from the Japanese program "Odoroki no Arashi", a science experiment program hosted by the popular Japanese pop group Arashi. Plagiarism was first raised as an issue by Arashi fans in Korea.
"We issued an apology to our audience and cancelled the contract with the subcontract producer", an EBS official said. "We will take all steps to stem piracy in the future".
EBS also admitted that another episode of the program, aired last week, involving grafting watermelons and other melons, is suspected of being a copy as well.
Good thing they apologised before these fans come at them:
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The Korea Education Broadcasting System (EBS) apologized Tuesday for plagiarizing a Japanese television program. It said "Sci-Fun", a science experiment program, outsourced to a subcontractor, was found to have copycatted a similar Japanese TV program.
The program in question was aired July 23 and carried out experiments regarding musical instruments and paper cup phones.
However, the experiments borrowed ideas from the Japanese program "Odoroki no Arashi", a science experiment program hosted by the popular Japanese pop group Arashi. Plagiarism was first raised as an issue by Arashi fans in Korea.
"We issued an apology to our audience and cancelled the contract with the subcontract producer", an EBS official said. "We will take all steps to stem piracy in the future".
EBS also admitted that another episode of the program, aired last week, involving grafting watermelons and other melons, is suspected of being a copy as well.
Good thing they apologised before these fans come at them:
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:02 pm (UTC)But I don't see why this is such a big deal. It's just people pratting around with fruit.
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:06 pm (UTC)They should have done the "Zero gravity in a jet" or "Do clothes dry faster as you sky-dive out a plane?" or "Will this boat made out paper/hay/ice floe/lego blocks finally reach Tokyo Bay?"
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:33 pm (UTC)ME TOO~~
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 03:14 pm (UTC)I just wanted to post this lol.no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 03:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:20 pm (UTC)I saw a boxed set of all the episodes in a store one time and I was going to buy it, but I didn't have enough money :(
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Date: 2009-08-12 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 03:15 pm (UTC)arashi probably did it better anyway,
but out of all the experiments to copy, they choose this one?
korean tv shows, i smell a lack of originality. D;
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:15 pm (UTC)rofl at korea copying japan's shows for like the 500th time, though.
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:18 pm (UTC)Don't mess with Korean Johnny's fans.
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:24 pm (UTC)BTW, Arashi program is really something that I would never understand. I do not know Japanese language at all, but I can not stop watching their show XD
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:30 pm (UTC)Of course Arashi's experiments would be epic.
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 03:45 pm (UTC)ehhh. They may have copied the experiments but i doubt they were HALF as funny as when Arashi does them
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Date: 2009-08-12 04:01 pm (UTC)Random fact: Arashi Korean releases are released by SME.
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Date: 2009-08-12 05:35 pm (UTC)yay arashi on omona! :3
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Date: 2009-08-12 05:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-08-12 06:52 pm (UTC)i still wish they did aiba's idiot experiment with all the mirrors, now THAT'S something worth copying *cough*
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Date: 2009-08-12 07:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-08-12 07:16 pm (UTC)too bad you really can't see it though :/no subject
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Date: 2009-08-13 12:00 am (UTC)And you know what, I'm more than ok with it. <3
since DBSK is going to be taken in be Johnny's Entertainment anyways.no subject
Date: 2009-08-13 12:07 am (UTC)How ironic that we thought the same thing about DBSK moving to Johnny's(no subject)
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