Director Lee Woong-hee, who directed the new KBS drama “I Stole the Male Lead’s First Night,” stated regarding the controversy over the destruction of cultural properties, “It is absolutely our fault,” and “All related filming has been discarded.”

KBS 2TV’s ‘I Stole the Male Lead’s First Night ‘, which will be aired for the first time at 9:50 PM on the 11th, is a fantasy drama based on a popular web novel about a romance novel where the soul of an ordinary female college student lives in a folding screen and spends a night with the male lead who is obsessed with the novel.Seohyun and Ok Taecyeon are the main characters.

At the production press conference held at D-Cube City in Guro-gu, Seoul prior to the first broadcast, director Lee Woong-hee, who was in charge of directing, was the first to apologize for the controversy over the damage to cultural assets that occurred during filming.

This is because, earlier this year,’ I Stole the First Night of the Namju ‘caused controversy by damaging cultural properties, such as hammering nails into a wooden pillar at Byeongsan Seowon, a UNESCO World Heritage site, during filming.At the time, KBS stated, “We will humbly accept the results after watching the police investigation and the investigation by Andong City and the National Heritage Administration,” and “We will actively cooperate in restoring the damaged areas in the future.”

The director said, “We definitely did something wrong.There is no room for excuses.All footage from after that incident was destroyed, and KBS also reorganized the existing guidelines to create’ cultural heritage-related guidelines.’” He added, “In a situation where the National Heritage Administration and other related organizations are investigating, we have conducted the minimum investigation that we can do as a priority.”

He continued, “After hearing the explanation from the experts, they said that the wood of the cultural property in question needs to be monitored for a year, so rather than restoring it right away, we plan to observe it and proceed with monitoring and restoration.” He bowed his head once again, saying, “This is a medium that should provide energy and joy in our tiring daily lives, and I am truly sorry for making you hear such bad things during the production process.”



Reporter Seungmi smlee@donga.com

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