‘We sincerely…’: KBS shares updates on police case against The First Night With the Duke for UNESCO Heritage Site damage

The wound to Andong’s Byeongsan Seowon Confucian Academy occurred within the future of the filming of 2PM’s Taecyeon and Ladies’ Technology’s Seohyun’s romance fantasy The First Night With the Duke. KBS was once beneath fire after a mediate claimed the drama’s shooting employees nailed and destroyed the wood pillars of the UNESCO World Heritage Reveal.

Following the escalation of controversy, on January 3, KBS issued a formal apology statement and also recognised the gravity of the downside. They also assured the final public of contributing to the restoration of the treasured South Korean place. Nonetheless, issues didn’t cease at that. A police criticism was once filed against the broadcasting firm detailing how the team had left 2 to just a few centimeter nail marks on wood pillars of Mandaeru Pavilion whereas striking prop lanterns on December 30. A image of the crew members facing the lanterns was once shared by the mediate, an architect named Min Sa Hong.

To manipulate the downside, KBS apologized once extra announcing, “We sincerely make an apology for causing indispensable topic and disappointment to the final public attributable to the cultural property wound within the future of the drama’s filming.” They also agreed to cooperate with the investigations performed by the police or any diverse relevant authorities. They extra assured of coaching the drama production team concerning being conscious of not causing any spoil to public properties whereas filming.

Nonetheless, they mentioned that the photos of the nail marks on the Byeongsan Seowon which had been circulating extensively in social media had been not the ones created by the crew of The First Night With the Duke. As per KBS, the nails they placed had been “in about 10 spots, including eight beam ends at Mandaeru Pavilion and two beam ends at Dongjae Hall.”

KBS also clarified that they had been not citing that to make clear their act and said, “Even though there had been pre-present nail holes, driving in unusual nails and adding tension constitutes wound to the cultural property. We sincerely make an apology for this.” The public is outraged on the alleged destruction of Byeongsan Seowon, which was once acknowledged as a UNESCO World Heritage Reveal in 2019. As per architect Min Sa Hong, the final public is sensitive towards these locations that preserve a quantity of significance to them. Pointing out about the incident in his Facebook post, he wrote that in archaic Korean homes, driving a single nail requires cautious consideration.

As per, KBS they are able to co-operate to resolve the enlighten in any technique doubtless, be it in investigation or restoration process. They told that the drama’s representatives had been in talks with the Byeongsan Seowon officials, along with conducting on-place inspections, and coordinating the an main restoration procedures.