JAKARTA - The latest episode of Korean drama King the Land scored the highest rating, but it appeared at the same time as public protests about the storyline. Episodes 7 and 8 which aired Saturday and Sunday, July 8-9 received negative comments from the audience.
In the latest episode, the character Prince Samir (Anuam Tripathi) is present at the King Hotel. Samir was a good friend of Gu Won (Lee Junho) when they studied abroad.
Samir visited the Gu Won hotel and fell in love with Cheon Sa Rang (YoonA) to invite him to marry. This made Gu Won jealous of Sa Rang and forbade the two to communicate.
The story continues and Samir is told as a Kasanova man or womanizer who is often close to several women. One scene shows Gu Won calling Samir a liar and having fun at a nightclub with several women.
When this episode was released, the audience criticized King the Land for not respecting Arabic culture and asking for an explanation.
Today, Monday, July 10, the drama production team explained that the characters and stories are fiction so there is no intention of degrading certain cultures.
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10 Juli 2023, 12:08
Krakter, daerah, nama tempat, dan hal yang muncul dalam drama berlatar fifi dan tidak ada intensi untuk membuat satir atau mendistorsi budaya spesifik, kata pihak tim produksi mengutip Spotv.
"The production team respects various cultures and will pay attention to production so that there is no discomfort when watching them," he said.
8 episodes of King the Land have aired from 16 episodes in total and received a rating that continues to increase. In the latest episode, this drama scored 12.3 percent and made the most-watched drama on weekends.
King the Land is also the non-English title that has been in the first position on Netflix for several weeks.
King the Land tells of Gu Won who doesn't like people who like to fake himself, while Cheon Sa Rang is required to keep smiling because of his job even though he is faced with various unpleasant things.
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