‘Star King’ apologizes for distorting Muslims in its latest episod

[hellicoptajuuce.livejournal.com]

The production team of SBS’s ‘Star King‘ released an official apology for the controversy they caused over a depiction of Muslims during their August 13th broadcast.

On August 15th, the team wrote a letter titled “We are apologizing for our description about the Muslim culture“, which was uploaded onto the show’s official homepage.

The letter stated, “August 13th’s broadcast last week featured a segment called ‘18 year old girl from Saudi Arabia, Ruby’s dream’. While introducing the guest, some contents could’ve been viewed as if we were belittling Saudi Arabian religion and traditions. We apologize for our mistake.”

The team also added, “We only wished to emphasize the guest’s desire for singing and did not have any intentions to belittle the Muslim culture. We will take extreme measures from now on so that we don’t bring about any further misunderstandings over our depictions and interpretations of different religions and cultures featured in our program.”

August 13th’s broadcast of ‘Star King’ was swept up in a controversy after it aired footage of a man dressed as an Arab threatening MC Kang Ho Dong while holding a rifle. It was criticized widely among netizens for degrading the Muslim religion and culture.

The production team has meanwhile stopped the “replay service” for this particular episode for the time being so that the controversial contents can be edited out.

Source: AKP Nate

I'm glad netizens called this shit out. "Could've"...ok

Comments

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

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this is downright RACIST!

[isinuyasha.livejournal.com]

Welcome to Korea, the place where you get photographed for being white and where black guys get asked if their parents were slaves^^ Yes all that has happened^^

[weaselbee.livejournal.com]

lucille does not approve...

[jeit91.livejournal.com]

holy shit.

[hideandplaydead.livejournal.com]

^ my first sentence came out of my mouth after i saw the picture.

[chunsakuma.livejournal.com]

When I saw the clip of this on YouTube (which I can no longer find), I was shocked. It's pretty damn bad.

Here's a summary :

[uglypricetag.livejournal.com]

holy hell they went much further than i thought they would. solidifies my hatred for this show.

[asuka-roses.livejournal.com]

ugh this is disgusting. And in Ramadan too.

[bumie.livejournal.com]

srsly THIS , I don't know what to say.
everything in that part is wrong and in the worst timing ....

[taecmyheart.livejournal.com]

this is so disgusting ugh.

[aneeleniffum.livejournal.com]

.....and it's fasting month for us summore.

[dorkiilove.livejournal.com]

wait im confused

why was the girl trying to portray a muslim?

[chunsakuma.livejournal.com]

I think she lived in Saudi Arabia or something, but she's Korean-American, so it doesn't really make any sense, at least not to me.

Srsly enough is enough

[sayufied.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I'm Saudi and I'm a Muslim (though I'm not really practicing lol)...
And I'm so fed up with all the racism, EVERY SINGLE DAY I have to hear a racial slur.

There is no excuse for them to be portraying Islam or Arabs in this manner.
Yeah, I get that the media plays a huge role...But it's getting too far.
It's NOT OKAY!!!
I swear some of the comments on AKP are down right racist...And I know I shouldn't be taking those comments seriously, but I can't help but feel upset and hurt when reading them.

It's the 21st century, I hope we catch up with time and realize that it's not okay to be racist towards Arabs or Muslims.


Sorry for the rant, I just got so upset...I was so close to crying lol ><;;...

[narcolepticnemu.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[jxsica.livejournal.com]

That whole scenario...I can't. O lawd.
Whoever came up with the script for this needs to go on a permanent holiday.

[hopeandmemory.livejournal.com]

For real. Kang Hodong is funny, he doesn't need to work off of this racist tripe.

[jaenovation.livejournal.com]

It was extremely racist and disturbing in my opinion, so I'm glad they apologised.

[sai12.livejournal.com]

At least they apologized. Sad that they didn't think before they made that segment.

[kikai-ni-naru.livejournal.com]

I should write a letter to Holliwood then. Why they always show Russians as mafia and killers.

[deelusion.livejournal.com]

lol this

[cake.livejournal.com]

That was fucking disgusting and I have no idea how they thought this wouldn't be offensive to anyone? Yeah, an apology is a start, but I hope this serves more as a lesson to not broadcast ignorant judgments on different cultures, religions, races, etc. That was downright wrong and the worst part is that some people actually believe these things...

[complicaked.livejournal.com]

It's great that for once they apologized for being so racist, but every time something like this happens shit blows over and then they wait until people sort of kind of forget about it until they do it all over again. This is just one instance and there's been plenty of other situations like this where the people who run the show didn't apologize.
I feel like no matter how many times people complain, they're still going to pull crap like this because they think it's funny.

And it's awful because, yes, people DO believe these things, that's why they continue to broadcast it to "entertain" the audience. Like, excuuuuuuse me.
dasjdlsjajtaldmalkj things like this make me so mad and it's not helping people become more open-minded to others. it's just more disappointing evidence of how ignorant some people can be. ; ;

[kiku-cha8-8.livejournal.com]

jfc. sometimes people really need to think before going through with segments. in what way is this okay, really.

[mad-nux.livejournal.com]

the one who wrote that script should gtfo. and sbs is so stupid to approve that

[ababobaby.livejournal.com]

flawless icon ♥

[stopjustlisten.livejournal.com]

Omg what the fuck. The fact that people agreed to play out this skit or script or whatever the fuck they planned is disgusting. They had to wait for it to be aired and for people to tell them that this is racist/rudity/despicable. Even if you don't understand other people's cultures, do you not have some fucking common sense or what. it's the 21st century jfc some people need to go back to their caves

[geniebsmart.livejournal.com]

Well this was not cool. Not cool at all =/

[twinkystar16.livejournal.com]

i can't with this..side eying and judging sbs so hard right now..

[lasthenia.livejournal.com]

It's good they apologized but it's total bullshit that they just wanted to portray how much she wanted to sing. they used obvious offensive stereotypes, they didn't need to do that in order to show her desire for that. can't believe this was aired

[jxsica.livejournal.com]

Lol, ikr. SOUNDS LEGIT!
"We only wished to emphasize the guest’s desire for singing" is just some lame-ass excuse that's supposed to divert everyone's attention from the fact that, they actually do not have an excuse for airing such an offensive segment.

[izabera.livejournal.com]

does this mean Korean broadcasters will also stop showing tacky blackface comedy acts?

[killclosedrown.livejournal.com]

Not unless a lot of people start a backlash about it and complain in mass numbers, which is probably the only reason they apologized here.

[donutism.livejournal.com]

Oh, Korea.

This should have never been thought of, let along passed by whoever checks the scripts, filmed and broadcasted.

It is quite sad how some people are so uneducated about other cultures.

[sarrazle.livejournal.com]

glad i'm fasting now or i spit some raging words already :s

[shineesbright.livejournal.com]

Lol! Same :) Month of forgiveness n all just waiting till Iftar! ψ(｀∇´)ψ