Amid controversy that girl group Lovelyz member Mijoo made a sexual harassment statement, the video production team officially apologized.
On the 8th, the video production team of Miju Picchu said, "We apologize for causing concern to citizens who would have been hurt by careless scenes in the process of interviewing citizens and those who loved'American Picchu'."
He added that the crew contacted the male student in the video separately and apologized. This video is currently closed. The production team said, "I will pay more attention to this problem in the production process so that this problem will not be repeated again."
The video in question was the first episode of the American web entertainment'American Picchu' released on the YouTube channel on June 26th. In the video, Miju met citizens in Seoul Forest and introduced mosquito repellent, met a male college student A, the same age, gave him advice on employment and took a commemorative photo together.
Knowing that Mr. A has a girlfriend, Minjoo asked, "Where have you gone. You must have gone to the end", and when Mr. A said that he had been dating his girlfriend for about 200 days, Mijoo said, "It's unconditional." .
In this process, when Mr. A refuted that "I only kissed," Mijoo continued to joke with him, saying, "Don't laugh. Are you a man?" "I agree with the joke and create a controversy about sexual harassment.
(SBS Entertainment News reporter Kang Kyung-yoon)