[NAVER] SBS' gag show "People Looking For Laughter" issue an apology after international call outs

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SBS' gag show "People Looking For Laughter" issue an apology after international call outs

 
This is SBS' "People Looking For Laughter"
 
We would like to point out the position of the production crew on the controversial gag skit.
 
We apologize for the inconvenience to the viewers because the production team did not carefully review the contents of the skit.
 
 
The clip was removed immediately and we will be more careful to avoid this issue in the future.
 

Article via Naver 
 

 
 

[+2977, -182] You keep making excuses but didn't Eric Nam refuse to dress up as Gandhi and Hong Suk Chun in SNL before and changed it to Krillin
 
[+2357, -119] This is entirely the fault of broadcasters. The fact that you did not filter these things is not much different from the broadcaster's perception. You shouldn't make the comedian a scapegoat. Individual mistakes and collective mistakes are different in their dimensions. The broadcaster should be more apologetic than this.
 
[+1702, -117] To laugh at racial discrimination is really sad 
 
[+1388, -59] Stop discriminating against black people and south asian countries
 
[+1162, -58] Korea is a closed culture, there is no sense of international culture at all
 
[+202, -22] Don't you not know that asians are treated no better than black people (in the sense of why are you still doing this)
 
[+156, -10] Although we ourselves are discriminated against abroad, in Korea we have no consideration for black people
 
[+131, -3] Let's improve our perception
 
[+117, -4] So nowadays to be funny, you paint your face black.. I don't find it funny
 
[+95, -5] Even if it's a matter of individual being racist, this was still broadcast on the airwaves, a national disgrace

 

 

 

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[crush2NE1]

Why is it so hard for some Korean shows to understand that blackface is not funny, should never be considered as a comedic act, and is just disrespectful? 

[OldCottonAccount]

Glad that most of these netizens are woke not here for #5's comment tho, y'all supposedly have the fastest internet server in the world so there's really no reason why you shouldn't know about how wrong that is and even then I think it's just basic human morality to not make skin colour a subject of laughter so nope no excusing it, unless I misinterpreted it.

[o.bb.o]

[+1388, -59] Stop discriminating against black people and south asian countries

 

this and stop discriminating period. 

[HotTea]

I'm 100% sure later on they do something racist again.

[Lipsync Queen]

The comment were from male no wonder.

[Forgottenly]

Wow I didn't know that thing about Eric Nam, that takes a lot of guts...

Also if that's the way Korean people think (the comments) then hopefully things will get better from here on out.

[Sapphic]

Glad that most of these netizens are woke not here for #5's comment tho, y'all supposedly have the fastest internet server in the world so there's really no reason why you shouldn't know about how wrong that is and even then I think it's just basic human morality to not make skin colour a subject of laughter so nope no excusing it, unless I misinterpreted it.

I think the point they might be trying to make is that shows like this demonstrate that Korea refuses to learn supposedly what the rest of the world has. Though that point could very much be argued.

[valeriekmy96]

And dumbass appologists thought knetz won't care, guess they've lost the ignorance card lol

[Hoplz]

A lot of people in the other thread believed they wouldn't care , and that boycotting wouldn't do anything

 

But now look, power of netizens

They even took the video down

[sakurahanabira]

Didn't Korea supposedly ban blackface from TV in 2012? I can't believe this is still happening.

 

Some three years have passed since then, but just last week nine Korean broadcasters -- including terrestrial MBC, KBS and SBS -- agreed to not use language that is discriminatory in all their programs, especially toward women and racial or ethnic minorities. Upon the agreement, the Korea Communication Standards Commission released the nation’s first language use guidelines for all broadcasters, which stipulated that “expressions that promote prejudice against, or mock or insult individuals on the basis of gender, age, education level, disabilities, regional origin, socioeconomic status and race must be refrained from.â€

Clearly SBS has violated this guideline.

[sakurahanabira]

Glad that most of these netizens are woke not here for #5's comment tho, y'all supposedly have the fastest internet server in the world so there's really no reason why you shouldn't know about how wrong that is and even then I think it's just basic human morality to not make skin colour a subject of laughter so nope no excusing it, unless I misinterpreted it.

um I don't know how you interpreted that comment as "we didn't know" but I read it as "we're so closed off that we as a country refuse to acknowledge or address racial issues and turn a blind eye to them until foreigners call us out, thus why we'll never progress on an international level if we keep doing this shit."