Source: World Wide Web
[Global Network Comprehensive Report Reporter Zhao Youping] "Central News Agency", "United News Network" and other Taiwan media sources said that South Korea's new coronavirus cases in a single day in mid-March this year as high as 600,000 people, Taiwan TVBS TV station at that time to produce relevant reports, the Korean flag and virus images combined into the "Taiji flag virus" shape, causing the South Korean people to anger, South Korean TV hosts even more bitterly criticized "a good Korean flag to make this look is okay?" TVBS News Station issued an apology statement in korean and Chinese on its official website today (19th), saying that it had deleted the problem video.
Screenshot of Taiwan's "Central News Agency" report
Taiwan's "Central News Agency" said that when Taiwan's TVBS television station reported the epidemic in South Korea at 7 p.m. on March 16, "FOCUS Global News", it post-processed the Korean flag and virus images into the shape of a "Taiji flag virus". After a month, after the report was transmitted back to South Korea, it triggered a fierce discussion among the South Korean people, and many large media such as South Korea's SBS, Chosun Ilbo, and JTBC also reported and criticized.
When Taiwanese television station TVBS produced a report on the epidemic in South Korea, it combined the Korean flag and virus images into a "Taiji flag virus" shape, which triggered a fierce discussion among the South Korean people, and many Korean media reported criticism. Taiwan's "Central News Agency" was taken from south Korea's SBS News Network
According to Taiwan's United News Network, for their own country's national flag was made into a "viral flag", South Korean netizens were indignant, scolding "fundamentally humiliated", and some netizens said that they did not want to go to Taiwan anymore, and regurgitated "Taiwan is part of China", and the JTBC TV host also criticized on the spot in the program " Is it okay to make a good Korean flag look like this?" ”
In this regard, TVBS today issued a statement in Chinese and Korean on its official website to apologize, saying that in the "FOCUS Global News" at 7 p.m. on March 16, in order to report on the epidemic in South Korea, it was inappropriate to post-produce the Korean flag and virus images. The problem video was immediately removed and an internal review and improvement was launched. I apologize to the Korean people. ”
Taiwan's TVBS tv station issued an apology statement on its official website on the 19th