The 'Laws of the Jungle' cast has returned from New Zealand after wrapping up their filming.

As expected after their controversy, the cast was swarmed with media members as soon as they came out of the gates. At the airport, Park Bo Young explained, "I went knowing that it would be hard, but it was worse than I expected. I think I excessively whined and complained. I shouldn't have done anything where things could be misinterpreted but unfortunately what's done is done. However, the cast cleared up the misunderstandings and we filmed until the end. I don't know how it will air, but I hope people have a good time watching as much as the effort we put into it."

The show also released an official statement about the controversy on the 11th, saying,

Recently, the head of an agency representing a celebrity posted harmful, baseless comments about 'Laws of the Jungle'. He admitted his wrongdoing, apologized and asked people to understand many times. However, there were words that arose which doubted the sincerity of the previous seasons. There are articles that come out based on information from the netizens and we are expressing our statement because our original purpose may be distorted.

'Laws of the Jungle' is a real variety program where we visit the wilderness and the natural environment is still preserved. We (who live in developed cities) reflect upon ourselves, and in the process, watch and learn about pure innocent human nature. But as everyone knows, it is also true that there's a decreasing and small number of people who still have their pure nature intact because of rapid industrialization and spreading culture.

Even in this situation, the program's main goal is to find our original nature that we no longer have through living in a natural environment different from our culture.

Even when we film the tribe members, the staff members carefully filmed those who lived as traditionally as possible, and we have been showing the pure images of the tribe that lived with their traditional values. To do this, tens of staff and cast members physically lived with them for the first time in broadcast. Living in the forest, in the Siberian wastelands, and in the desert. Of course, there were also people / outliers there who had become urbanized, but the reason why we did not show them on the broadcast was not to hide them, but because it was different from our goals.

The African, Amazon, and Vanuatu's tribes may all be similar in their ways, but they all live in different places. They have continued to live with their traditional values, even the ones who live close to an urban area, and have managed to live different lives.

Out of these tribes, 'Laws of the Jungle' approached those who were managing a traditional lifestyle but agreed to be filmed. An on-site expert approached them first, and the staff went to check before we decided on filming.

As we protect our own culture, the traditional tribes are all protected by their relevant governments. They are people who we must gain permission before we start filming. 'Laws of the Jungle' has always solved these points through long research and exploration before filming.

We ask to stop the baseless criticism for the many staff and cast members who agreed with the program goals and worked hard even in the hard environment of the jungle. Thank you to all the viewers who love 'Laws of the Jungle'.