Romania pre-capitalized without apology TV viewer ratings self-congratulations ..mbc's rudeness, another Europe disgrace
Following the opening ceremony, until the soccer qualifying round, mbc was at the center of criticism with rude and over-the-counter subtitles.
mbc made inappropriate subtitles during the relay process of Korea and Romania in the Tokyo Olympic men's soccer group B at Kashima Stadium in Japan Ibaraki Prefecture on the 25th, and frowned on the viewers. Romania's national team defender Marius Marine Le Pen scored his own goal in the 27th minute and captioned "Thank you Marine Le Pen." mbc's subtitles mocking the opponent's team seem to be a long way from the Olympic spirit to contribute to world peace through sports.
Since the broadcast, the voice of viewers' criticism toward mbc has been getting higher. In particular, the Romania Football Association pointed out mbc's rude relay subtitles by posting on its official SNS account that "Korea public broadcasting mbc mocked Marius Marine Le Pen's shameful moment with the message "Thank you Marine Le Pen, self-defeating".
This is not the first time mbc's rude and inappropriate Olympic coverage has been reported. When the Ukrainian athletes entered the opening ceremony on the 23rd, the photo of the Chernobyl power plant, which was the scene of a tragedy that caused tremendous casualties in the 1986 Soviet nuclear explosion, was posted in the national explanation section. When the El Salvador athletes entered, the Bitcoin image, which was recently designated as a court currency, was inserted. The Marshall Islands athletes' explanations included the phrase "Once a United States of America's nuclear test site," Afghanistan inserted poppy transport photos, and Syria inserted the "10-year civil war" Iran phrase, which presented the heartbreaking history or the most negative image of the country.
It didn’t stop here, and there was a childish explanation that was far from an international sporting event called the Olympics. When the Norwegian athletes entered, they took a picture of salmon, a picture of Dracula when they entered the Romania athletes, and a picture of Dwayne Johnson, a Samoan actor, in the Samoa athletes.
Of course, it is not ending with criticism from domestic viewers. mbc's reports spread quickly to foreign netizens on SNS, and foreign media such as CNN of United States of America, Guardian of England, France24 of France, 7 News of Australia, Nikkan Sports of Japan, and South China Morning Post of Hong Kong were rude to mbc (disspectful), insulting, and bizarre (b) I said, "It's a sidewalk."
As the controversy deepened, mbc said, "The video and subtitles of the problem were prepared with the intention of easily introducing the athletes who entered the opening ceremony in a short time, but the consideration and worries about the parties were greatly lacking and the inspection process was poor. It is an inexcusable mistake," apologized mbc's union (3 unions) after releasing a statement, saying: "The public broadcaster disgraced Europe with the property of the people. In order to prevent recurrence, we should not only punish practitioners but also punish those who are responsible. "
There has also been a story that mbc's emergency broadcast report is due to the reorganization of the sports agency in February this year. It is said that it may be a problem caused by the shortage of production crews who have produced large sports event programs by moving a large number of sports personnel and some of the relay and production functions to mbc Plus, a subsidiary. In fact, the opening ceremony subtitles and photo descriptions of the problem are made by internal personnel rather than outsourcing, but most of the veteran production team related to sports relaying is not known to participate.