News summary on the way home from work, Subsletter Evening.
Animals appearing in dramas are also actors.
It plays an important role in the story development of the drama.
The KBS drama 'Taejong Lee Bang-won' is based on a historical background, so horses appear frequently.
Criticism of animal cruelty is hot, but the drama was canceled for two weeks and the production team was accused.
Let's start with the words of Seong-gye Lee in history.
Seonggye Lee had eight horses...
In the 'Yongbieocheonga', which you must have learned at least once in school, there is a record of the horse that Seong-gye Lee, the founder of Joseon, rode.
Since 'Yongbieocheonga' was created to glorify the legitimacy of the founding of Joseon, it is a record with a strong political intention.
Even taking that into consideration, it seems that Lee Seong-gye and Horse had a special relationship.
Anecdotes related to horses appear several times during war or hunting.
I will briefly quote an article written by Kim Jae-eun, a curator at the Cultural Heritage Administration.
Chapter 30 of Yongbieocheonga also contains the story of King Taejo's horse. When Taejo, a young man, was hunting at Jangdan, he was riding a 'Five Myung Jeok Horse' and was going over a high hill. Down the hill was a cliff. At this time, two roe deer suddenly jumped out and ran away, so Taejo ran and followed the roe deer. He knocked down the roe deer by hitting the arrow with his nose and hurriedly turned the horse's head to stop, only a few steps away from the cliff. It is said that when people admired Taejo's skillful craftsmanship, Taejo laughed and said, "I can't stop it without me." This anecdote was used as a material to show that miraculous things happen to those who will become kings, and the 'fantastic horse' that appears here is the 'developer', one of the eight factors.
Source: Hankook Ilbo (Written by Kim Jae-eun, Curator, Cultural Heritage Administration)
In this article, the word 'developer' appears among the eight boys, and it is said that they all had names like this.
It was like 'Yu Rin-chung, Chu Pung-oh, Hyeon-pyo...'.
Among them, Yurincheong is said to be the horse that Seonggye Lee rode when he went out to conquer Liaodong.
Sejong had him leave a picture of Fal-jun from Yongbieocheonga, and he also had him paint a picture of Fal-jun during King Sukjong's time.
The painting of Eight Jun during the reign of King Sejong disappeared after the Imjin War, and now the painting of the reign of King Sukjong remains.
Kim Jae-eun, curator, said, "Until the late Joseon Dynasty, when trying to emphasize the authority of the king and the dignity of the royal family, it can be seen that the founder Taejo and his eight Jundo were continuously summoned as effective political symbols." It can be seen that it has had a significant impact on
Take a moment to look at the picture of the word 'developer' that I explained a while ago.
There was a drama scene in which Lee Seong-gye rode a horse and fell out, but the horse eventually died, so the controversy over abuse is hot.
The situation is very different from the words in the picture.
Animals at the production site, are guidelines made?
The KBS historical drama 'Taejong Lee Bang-won' is scheduled for the weekend, but it will be aired tomorrow (22nd) the day after tomorrow (23rd), and until next week.
It was because he was caught up in the controversy of animal cruelty on the set of the drama.
Controversy spread when an animal protection group, Animal Freedom Coalition, released a video of a horse forcibly falling to the floor on the set of 'Taejong Lee Bang-won', which was a scene from the 7th episode of the drama that aired on the 1st of this month. .
The group claimed that the filming was conducted in such a way that a wire was tied to the horse's ankle so that it fell forward.
Animal rights groups criticized this method of filming as an act of cruelty that violates the Animal Protection Act, which forbids any action that injures animals, and demanded confirmation of the horse's survival.
▶ [View related video] I heard a story from a person at the site.
The website of 'KARA', an animal rights protection group, also has an open inquiry to the drama production team.
[We ask the producers of 'Taejong Lee Bang-won' for an answer.]
1. Have there been guidelines for ensuring the safety of animals before filming them?
2. Have veterinarians been deployed to respond to on-site incidents that may occur?
3. Please disclose the safety of all the horses in the 7th episode of the show.
Source: 'KARA'
The horse eventually dies... Animal rights groups sue the producers
In a statement, KBS said, "The horse got up on its own right after the accident and returned after confirming that there were no apparent injuries. I confirmed that." He promised to prevent a recurrence and apologized.
But the controversy did not end here.
Animal rights groups have filed a complaint with the police against the drama's crew.
'Kara', an animal rights protection group, said, "KBS has expressed an official position on this incident as 'unfortunate' or 'unfortunate', but this terrible situation is not a simple accident or mistake, it is a very carefully planned production. "It's an obvious act of cruelty to animals," and said, "The public broadcaster KBS, which operates on license fees, should not simply end the situation with an apology at the level of 'I'm sorry'."
The Korea Animal Protection Association also held a press conference in front of the KBS main building and said, "The drama production crew deliberately tripped the horse to death while filming the scene. I received an insider report that things are not common.”
Separately from 'Kara', I filed a complaint with the police against the production team for violating the Animal Protection Act.
Criticism rushes to the Blue House bulletin board and KBS bulletin board
On the bulletin board of the Blue House public petition, there was an article titled 'We need to prepare measures for animals that are threatened with safety and survival for broadcast shooting' and 'Please stop and punish the K** drama series that treats animals as props for broadcast shooting' The number of likes is increasing. Articles criticizing animal cruelty are being posted one after another on the KBS viewer petition board.
Actors are also raising their voices of criticism through SNS, but Ko So-young posted a picture of her falling over and saying, "It's too much. I'm sorry." Kim Hyo-jin wrote, "It's really terrible. The actor was hurt, and the horse eventually died. I hope the stunt actor will get well soon. Animals on set are life, not props."
Traditional historical dramas have been revived for a long time, but their meaning is fading due to the animal cruelty controversy. I hear it as a rebuke that the drama production team is not able to read the trend of the times when the value of animal protection is increasing. If you look at the Animal Freedom Coalition statement, it says that there are no guidelines.
As a result of the Animal Freedom Coalition examining the code of ethics of KBS 'Broadcast Production Guidelines', there was almost no mention of animals.
Although the regulations on animal photography are described in Item 2-3 of the guideline 19, these are rules that must be followed when shooting nature or wild animals, and there is no mention of 'animal actors'.
Moreover, even some regulations contain only abstract and general content, revealing that higher-order understanding of animals and ecology is not reflected in the broadcast production process.
As such, the practice of filming the weak as a tool must be improved, and the starting point will be a change in attitude toward animals.
Source: Animal Freedom Coalition
This is a warning against the practice of filming animals as props or tools. The controversy over animal abuse in 'Taejong Lee Bang-won' should serve as an opportunity to create guidelines for filming dramas featuring animals.
a piece of the day
This is a photo of a large-scale monk competition held at Jogyesa Temple.
Monks from all over the country gathered to criticize the name of the contest, “National Monks Contest for the Eradication of Religious Bias, Distortion of Buddhism, and the Protection of Korean Buddhism’s sovereignty”, the Democratic Party member Jeong Cheong-rae’s demeaning remarks on cultural properties, and the government’s support for the Catholic carol campaign.
It is said that remarks criticizing the government poured in.