A Seoul court Thursday found an influential MBC program on U.S. beef health risks "wrong" and ordered the major broadcaster to air a correction.

"PD Notebook should broadcast a correction about its wrong piece on mad cow disease," Judge Kim Sung-gon of the Seoul Southern District Court was quoted as saying in his verdict.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries filed a suit against the popular MBC current affairs program, PD Notebook, arguing its April report intentionally distorted facts related to U.S. beef to exaggerate the risk of mad cow disease.

After the report aired, tens of thousands took to the streets against an agreement Seoul, Washington had signed earlier in April to unconditionally resume U.S. beef imports.