(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
What is up with the boys down at MBC? It seems that I can’t turn the TV on without seeing a swinging dick dancing across my screen.
A few months after getting in trouble for musicians exposing their naughty bits on a live music show, MBC is in hot water again for a lack of editing during a bathhouse scene in one of their dramas:
The terrestrial broadcaster MBC has attracted censure with yet another incident of what some viewers regard as indecent exposure, four months after an alternative singer stripped during a live program. But this time the blink-or-you-miss-it view of a man??s genitals was pre-recorded, occurring in the soap opera "Sweet Spy," which aired Monday.
In the bathhouse scene, three male actors — Choi Bul-am, Lee Gi-yeol and Kim Joon-ho — are seen rubbing each others backs, their private parts decently out of frame. But sharp-eyed viewers were able to spot the genitals of an extra in the background fully, if dimly, exposed.
Needless to say, netizens were all over the MBC’s latest ‘pepper problem’ and the network has apologized to viewers. They also wanted everyone to know that they "did not make the scene with impure intentions."
Well, that’s a relief.
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pathetic. i watched the drama and thought it refreshing for a tv show to be comfortable with nudity in such a natural setting. it’s certainly not the first time a bathhouse scene has had nudity here.
You’re making this up, Andy. The only outrages in Korea involve Americans and Japanese. Everyone here knows that.
pathetic. i watched the drama and thought it refreshing for a tv show to be comfortable with nudity in such a natural setting. it’s certainly not the first time a bathhouse scene has had nudity here.
Don’t get too discouraged there, Your Honor. This is merely the outrage of the week, which is pored over and scrutinized and criticized or praised by a few thousand people out of a population of nearly fifty million. The other 99.9% probably stop paying attention to it after they’re done reading the headline about it in the papers.
In other words, the ranters on the Internet probably do not represent the norm. Just like with Nipplegate, a tiny, tiny fraction of the population tried to make it look like America was outraged.
Thank you, Al Gore, for inventing a glorified collection of bullhorns.
What is the sound of one hack yapping?
Why does the Chosun Ilbo post pictures with the article if there is nothing to see in the pictures?
It’s almost as if they had never seen Korean late night TV.
I like this line in the Chosun story: “After the scene aired, websites started to bulge with comments from Korea’s famously vociferous Netizens.” “Bulge,” eh? Marmot, Marmot, Marmot.
My only fear is that if Korean broadcasters started showing “the thing” on TV, they would start trying to superimpose advertising on it, which, in turn, would result in a new kind of race to find the largest for the sake of showing more advertising at one time.
I must also wonder just *who* spends their time watching Korean TV, trying to spot genitalia . . .