BBC apologizes to KBS, deletes incorrect footage from Burning Sun documentary
A scene from the BBC's Burning Sun documentary. The BBC acknowledged an error in a segment regarding KBS in the documentary and deleted the relevant scenes. Captured from YouTube
The BBC has acknowledged errors regarding a segment involving KBS, Korea's public broadcaster, in its documentary about the Burning Sun scandal and has subsequently deleted the erroneous scenes and apologized.
According to KBS on Wednesday, the BBC issued an apology for incorrectly stating that a KBS lawyer pressured and contacted victims of singer Jung Joon-young, acknowledging that the claim made in the documentary "Burning Sun: Exposing the Secret K-pop Chat Group," which aired on Sunday via its YouTube channel, was incorrect.
The BBC sent a statement to KBS earlier in the day, acknowledging the mistake in the documentary, which was available on BBC News Korea and BBC World Service YouTube channels, and confirmed that the segment had been immediately deleted and corrected.
Additionally, the BBC clarified that the legal advice received by Jung's ex-girlfriend was from an independent source that she had personally arranged, not from a KBS lawyer, as previously stated in the documentary. The correction has been announced on the respective platforms.
The BBC said the error was an unintended misunderstanding.
This article from the Hankook Ilbo, sister publication of The Korea Times, was translated by generative AI and edited by The Korea Times.