SBS Sageuk Joseon Exorcist Cancelled With Only 2 Episodes Aired After Losing All Advertisers and Filming Sponsors Due to Netizen Furor

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• Damn. Knetizens are some of the most unreasonable people. Do they forget this is people's bread and butter, months of hard work was put into creating this show and now they get nothing? Also shows how spineless those adverstisers are, just how much are popple going to cater to knetizens. Those issues can be fixed easily but no, its gotta be cancelled

  • thanks god never been born as Korean...the blood of Korean is just so freaking stupid,useless and easily intimidated..whether its the North or the
    South just the same idiot!!

    • Yo, be frustrated with what's going on but remember it's just a tv show. And, you're referring to a COUNTRY and an ENTIRE group of people. As you said you're not Korean which means, like most of us (myself included), you don't fully understand the cultural significance and nuances of the situation. Keep going down the path of your comment and you'll find yourself dangling very close to sounding xenophobic.

    • @Nik - not just xenophobic but let's call a spade a spade here, it's racist.

      I think cancelling the entire drama without giving them a chance to fix the issues, was unreasonable and unfair to the (Korean) cast and crew though.

• I have been saying this ever since "Cancel culture" started: it IS a slippery slope. Sure something really offensive is canceled today and you agree with that so you are happy. But months or years from now things will be canceled that you like for reasons you disagree with and all of a sudden it's the end of the world. Should have remembered that when it started!

  Don't like something; don't watch it! Don't dare decide for me if I can and worse yet don't steal away the livelihoods and artistic visions of other just because you are offended! Your feelings do NOT give you power over the lives of other people! This is sickening and infuriating to the highest degree. I hope Netflix can buy it or something and show it to those of us who will appreciate it.

• right.. but youre saying that out of ignorance for everything else that has been happening for OVER a year or so.
  Chinese dramas and medias have increasing poaching korean cultural foods and traditional clothing as their own, calling Korea a national of copycats. Chinese celebrities have been dressing in hanboks on national tv, and stating that hanboks, the traditional korean dress, is merely an extension of their own clothing and stating that Korea has no original culture, when chinese have stolen Korean TV shows, like "I live alone" and "Three Meals" without any credit, acknowledgement or TV rights to Korea. It got so bad that the Chinese UN ambassador filmed a video of him eating kimchi and stating that it was "their traditional food."
  There is numerous reasons that Korean netizens are furious about China and for the writers and costume designers to do this, in spite of everything, is really a slap in the face to the viewers.

  https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2020/12/13/culture/features/china-hanbok-kimchi/20201213145800805.html
  http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20201217-how-kimchi-rekindled-a-decades-long-feud

  • One simple question....how does kicking in the belly of their own people help the fight against China? The actors will bounce back, SBS will bounce back....you know who won't....production staff. This silly culture cancel propaganda game has no winners. None.

  • The whole claiming kimchi thing started out as a misunderstanding, and because Koreans can't read Chinese and Chinese people can't read Korean, there's tons of misinformation. A lot of Chinese people don't care or think about the Hanbok thing, or claim it as Chinese. This Chinese youtuber pointed out the DIFFERENCES in Hanbok and Chinese dresses and Koreans misunderstood it as her claiming the dresses were the same. The same happened to Kimchi.

    All of it is a misunderstanding, but if China really decided to double down on it... that would've been a mistake.

    • Nvm, I just read up on some stuff lol

      Idk what the government is trying to do

• their next target would be the casts of JE ?? just look how they bullied shin hye sun now. isn't it kind of hypocrite? they enjoyed watching mr queen. but now they want to boycott her after enjoying her works. why hate now? why not before? coz they just want a target to be bullied. i don't know other inetz.. but i see this a a bully opportunity

  • they should be ashamed with their bully and cancel culture attitude..outsiders look down on them.. but i don't think they care

• Dang, so much bad news everywhere. Cancel culture...yep...people are hurt now and can ruin you...so better do things right with facts, not alternative facts.

• What the heck, I can't believe it went so far that the drama had to be cancelled like that! What's wrong with people nowadays, having such a selfish attitude and zero tolerance for anything! It's like a bunch of whiny and spoiled kids who gets their ego bruised for the smallest thing and screams bloody murder. Why would the advertisers and sponsors take it seriously and withdraw like that, that'll only enable this entitled attitude and inflate their ego even more. What will be next?

• People on this sites must be stupid. There are bigger reasons why this drama cancelled. Imagine that's your country that got its history distorted in grotesque way. Oops I forget people here only care about oppa's drama doing well and have forgotten their own roots and will not protect it when outsiders want to distort it using money. People here can be bought using money. Or those visitors of this site are c themselves

  • Cancel culture is toxic, you miserable ignorant dweeb.

  • You sound stupid. And stop changing your username, will you? You were bashing SIG in his article and now you're here spewing more nonsense. Did you think no one would notice just because you changed your name from jcw to hearmeout??? Not very smart, this one.

    • People like that will self destruct eventually. Don't time waste engaging with them. Attacking someone's looks with such venom & ferocity suggest they have serious mental health issues. The notorious adyjunjihyun was the same. She never came back to this site again.

    • Yup. Sounds like a local SK working class person who may have suffered poverty with unfair competition from rich privilege people who can buy their way out of anything with money or use personal connections to get out of MS. This is the biggest emo trigger as clearly seen. Fans who are non-Korean won't be harping on this issue coz it's not in their DNA/culture. Kumbaya for this ahjussi to get well mentally. He had to serve 2 years in MS maybe bullied in the army and now hates anyone who didn't serve. SIG might have stolen his gf or loved ones hence all bitter towards this actor's looks. Lol.

    • I notice he won't attack Kimchi Ajumma directly though she gushed about SIG. Maybe he thinks she's a female older Korean so that's off limits in terms of hurling insults. He mostly left nasty remarks below international fans' comments defending SIG. User most likely a struggling middle aged frustrated Korean office worker who hates international fans worshipping Korean oppas. He mentioned your sister office worker, does she still work in office or working people like you and me.

  • I can't agree more. People here don't think about the root of Korean culture and just care about their selfish desire. And trying to sugarcoat their reason by using word "cancel culture". They should know that if this kind of history distortion by China keep happening, there will be no Korean drama as they have known anymore.

• I feel so bad for all the cast and crew. I hope there will be a major backlash against the backlash. I understand the backlash, but the issues could be easily edited or fixed without changing the story. Maybe a title card can be inserted in that says "we made these following mistakes. We're sorry."

  It's not like Taejong goes around slaughtering innocent commoners after that hallucination moment. Aside from the first 15 minutes, the portrayal seems nicer than his depiction in Tree with Deep Roots, which highlighted his despotic ways and how he killed all his in-laws and his son's in-laws and oppressed Sejong. Are they going to retroactively come after that drama too?

  I hope they can air what they've already filmed even though they can't film anymore because all their location shoots and costume-provider dropped them.

  Writers should now write costume dramas with fake dynasties and rulers or maybe stop making so many sageuks revolve around royalty. What about regular nobles or all the people who never get to exchange a single word with a king or prince?

  • I think, it's an alarm for the writer and PD nim. Just bcuz Mr Queen got high rating despite the backlash . They could easily edit ep 2 before airing. But they kept continuing. So...

    I feel bad for everyone in that drama. I loved it tho. Sigh. The time and energy they had spent for it.. sigh..

    • Omo, i mean, just bchz Me. Queen got high rating despite the backlash, they thought, this drama wont get much problems too. But koreans probably are just in a sensitive state towards the history.

• Whoa Whoa koala, I know you are upset but I don't think it right to curse K-netz for their "stupid hatred and pride" I am sorry, It sad all over but it is their drama and their history and their culture I think it not something that we can judge or even curse just because we sad one drama get cancelled.

• Oh my, I was so excited to watch this one. I hope they can find new sponsors and continue filming. I haven’t watch the first 2 episodes but if I’m not mistaken there are always disclaimer at the start of historical adaptations/sagueks. Will not that suffice? How about creative freedom? The writers/costume designers etc definitely did a lot of research etc on this one. Imagine the effort they put into this.....if people want accurate retelling of history I think they should go to the library and read history books..hay