The Illegal scene was broadcast on TVN entertainment program 'How the President 2', which depicts the rural Mart operator.
On the 10th broadcast of 'What happened to President 2', Cha Tae-hyun, Jo In-sung, and Alba Corps Kim Woo-bin, Lee Kwang-soo, and Lim Joo-hwan, who celebrated the sales James Stewart,
Their rural business has been a challenge since the opening of James Stewart Day, when an old man bought a cigarette. The old man who bought a cigarette had ordered, “Give me a lighter.” Kim Woo-bin and Lee Kwang-soo were busy looking for lighters in the store and asked, "Have you ever bought a lighter here?" The elderly responded that "the lighter is just giving it to Service."
Kim Woo-bin, who eventually found the lighter, handed the lighter to Service as a Service for the elderly to buy a cigarette. Lee Kwang-soo even applauded and celebrated overcame the impasse.
This scene, which can be seen at convenience stores in the city center as well as in the countryside, is a serious misconduct. The act of providing lighters as a Service is a violation of Article 18 of the Tobacco Business Act, which corresponds to the sale price of cigarettes below the announced price. If you violate this first, you can be suspended for three months, suspended for six months in case of second violation, and fined up to 1 million won.
“When you sell cigarettes in the original way, you see the prize payment as Illegal,” said a Ministry of Health and Welfare official.
The Ministry of Strategy and Finance has been promoting the violation of the Tobacco Business Act several times.
Viewers who watched the controversy over How Do You 2 were mixed. The act of giving a lighter to a Service after buying a cigarette is sometimes done in convenience stores in the city center as well as in rural areas, and the cast and crew of the scene may not have known that such an act was Illegal.
However, it is pointed out that there was no thorough investigation into Illegal activities as the production team of How the President 2 is a broadcasting program, and that the contents could be broadcast as they are, which could lead to confusion among viewers.
“After the broadcast is sent, if there is any possibility of a problem through the receipt of complaints or monitoring, we will review the issue and then deliberate on the agenda,” said an official from the Korea Communications Standards Commission.