[Pick] Taegeukgi on the report of Abe attack?… Criticism on NBC

▲ U.S. NBC using a hoisting pole with the Taegeukgi as a material screen along with the caption 'Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe was shot dead'

NBC broadcaster of the United States is causing controversy by displaying the Taegeukgi flag and a photo of Gwanghwamun in the background as the news of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

NBC's morning broadcast 'Today Show' delivered the news that former Prime Minister Abe was shot and killed during an election campaign on the 8th (local time), and used the streets of Gwanghwamun in South Korea and a hoisting pole with the Taegeukgi as data screens.

The NBC Today Show showed Tokyo landmarks as wallpapers while a reporter said "gun violence is extremely rare in Japan."

Then, the moment the reporter said, "Japan's gun laws are the most stringent in the world," a material screen appeared in which the Taegeukgi was fluttering on five flagpoles.

Subsequently, it was reported that a screen of data showing Gwanghwamun in Seoul was also sent.

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▲ U.S. NBC used the entire view of Gwanghwamun as a material screen with the caption, 'Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe was shot dead'

NBC has currently modified the related videos posted on its website and YouTube channel, and has not released an official position on this.

Immediately after the report, articles mocking NBC poured out on social media.

Curtis Hook, editor-in-chief of Newsbusters, a conservative media watchdog in the United States, captured the scene and posted it on Twitter, saying, "The country is wrong. NBC News' morning program seems to have difficulty distinguishing Asian countries properly." I did.

Other users also pointed out NBC's fault by leaving tweets such as "I'm going to put the blame on the summer intern. I'm sorry" and "God, please let us teach more geography in American schools."

Earlier, during the broadcast of the opening ceremony of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, NBC caused controversy when a commentator made a statement in support of Japan's colonial rule in Korea.

Joshua Cooper Rameau, a commentator at the time, said when the Japanese team entered, "Japan was a country that forcibly occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945." All Koreans will talk."

After the Pyeongchang Olympic Organizing Committee formally protested to NBC, he posted on his Twitter, "I sincerely apologize to those who were offended by my commentary during the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympics."