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Posted by Germaine-Jay Wednesday, May 22, 2024

BBC apologizes to KBS for serious mistake in 'Burning Sun' documentary

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BBC issued an apology to KBS for a serious mistake in the 'Burning Sun' documentary.


On May 22, BBC officially apologized and made corrections to its 'Burning Sun' documentary after finding errors concerning Korean broadcast network KBS. According to an official statement by KBS, BBC admitted to the errors and issued a formal apology and has removed the problematic content from the documentary as well as revealing the corrections publicly on their platforms. 

The BBC reportedly said, "We sincerely apologize to KBS. This incident was an error caused by an unintended misunderstanding." KBS also stated, "We want to make it clear this error was the BBC's mistake, not that of the interviewed journalist."

As previously reported, KBS released a statement through lawyers denying the accusations that the network pressured victims of Jung Joon Young's illegal sex tapes into withdrawing their complaints against him. KBS' lawyers stated, "The journalist who appeared in the BBC documentary 'Burning Sun' claimed KBS lawyers contacted and pressured Jung Joon Young's victims. These claims are false and unfounded. When the victims say they were afraid after a lawyer advised they might face legal consequences if their evidence was insufficient after BBC narrates that KBS' lawyers contacted the victims, we would like to make it clear the lawyers were the victim's representatives.

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yeahkpop16
yeahkpop168,479 pts Wednesday, May 22, 2024 4
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

That was a hugely inflammatory mistake to make. I hope the people with pitchforks about to go after KBS see BBC's apology/correction.

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powerstruggle
powerstruggle282 pts Wednesday, May 22, 2024 2
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

No, they haven't. The BBC is a public broadcaster; they are bound by very strict rules (or 'editorial guidelines' as they call it) here in the UK. Should they issue any apology, this should be public - on the website and on air. And considering how notoriously anti-BBC the British newspapers are, any one of them should have broken the news about this 'apology' first. It's very suspicious that all this is only coming from KBS.

As someone already pointed out, any apologies that the BBC issues should be in here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandf.... There's nothing in there about that documentary.

Also - "BBC has removed the problematic content from the documentary" - also false. I'm (re)watching the documentary as I type this and the whole segment on how KBS was complicit in protecting that pervert is still there. Anyone who could access the BBC Korea version could also check if this claim is true.

I have to say, this kind of BS that KBS (lol) is trying to pull is very much from the CCP playbook.

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