Drama Anna' starring singer and actor Bae Suzy was caught up in the wrong anger of China netizens.
On the 30th, China Social Network Service Wei Bo collected the topic with the title "Bae Suzy's new Drama Anna introduction controversy".
OTT platform Coupang Play WebDrama Anna' (playplayplay and director Lee Ju-young) is a story about a woman who has lived a completely different life, starting with a trivial lie. Based on the novel 'Intimate Stranger' by Jeong Han-a, The Talented Mr. Ripley syndrome is based on.
The scene that Chinese netizens have been troubled is the situation where the main character Yumi (Bae Suzy) went to the store to sell the gift watch. The clerk looks at Yumi's watch and answers, "I don't know if this brand is good or not, but this watch is Made in China." It is a process of receiving a fake watch and Yumi feeling disgrace.
The Chinese netizens who saw this scene were angry that China was portrayed as a fake place on Korea Drama. Recently, Hanbok and kimchi controversy, "the false marketing of Korea Drama has begun again," he complained that he put a so-called "fake" image on China.
But this scene was the motif of the actual event. The clerk who checked the watch in the play said, "I was in the news that this was the Record of the Grand Historian four to five years ago. I made it in China, and I got a screw in Switzerland and got a 'Made in Switzerland' and got a cost of 100,000 won for 8 million won and 10 million won. " It reminds me of the 'Vincent and Co' incident that actually made the domestic buzz in 2006.
At that time, the brand played Records of the Grand Historian with a false publicity that the craftsman brand, which had only supplied watches to European royal families such as England and Sweden for more than 100 years, landed in Korea for the 100th anniversary. A large number of celebrities participated in the brand launch party, and dozens of celebrities, including entertainers and chaebols, bought watches. However, their Records of the Grand Historian behavior were revealed in two months. Made in China Movement to disassemble the clock made in Korea and send it to Switzerland to deceive the origin in the form of reassembly. The total amount of damage was more than 450 million won, which caused a great wave of waves in society at the time. China netizens' claim that Anna' is trying to cut China's image is ridiculous.
Korean netizens who have been exposed to the controversy note that Coupang Play, the platform where Anna' is aired, is not being served in China. "I wonder what route China people watched Anna'. It is not China that commits illegal activities. "