{"id":101275,"date":"2024-01-11T11:09:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T19:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=101275"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T19:09:59","slug":"park-seo-joon-responds-to-accusations-of-insulting-korean-independence-fighters-in-gyeonseong-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/park-seo-joon-responds-to-accusations-of-insulting-korean-independence-fighters-in-gyeonseong-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Seo Joon responds to accusations of insulting Korean independence fighters in &#8216;Gyeonseong Creature&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 11th, the renowned actor <strong>Park Seo Joon<\/strong> had an interview with the media outlet <strong>OSEN<\/strong>, where he responded to strong accusations of insulting Korean independence fighters in &#8216;<strong>Gyeonseong Creature<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>After the release of the first season of the series on the <strong>Netflix<\/strong> platform on December 22nd, many viewers discussed and criticized the <strong>representation of Korean independence fighters<\/strong>, as some of them betrayed the protagonists, which was seen as an <strong>insult toward them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Given this controversy, Park Seo Joon decided to <strong>explain his character intentions<\/strong>: &#8220;<em>He may have tried to reject (the independence movement) at first, but he always came through for them in the end<\/em>&#8220;. He also <strong>expressed his position on the matter<\/strong> and his thoughts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-101285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Park-Seo-Joon-speaks-on-the-criticized-representation-of-independence-fighters-in-his-last-drama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Park-Seo-Joon-speaks-on-the-criticized-representation-of-independence-fighters-in-his-last-drama.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Park-Seo-Joon-speaks-on-the-criticized-representation-of-independence-fighters-in-his-last-drama-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Park-Seo-Joon-speaks-on-the-criticized-representation-of-independence-fighters-in-his-last-drama-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Park-Seo-Joon-speaks-on-the-criticized-representation-of-independence-fighters-in-his-last-drama-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Park-Seo-Joon-speaks-on-the-criticized-representation-of-independence-fighters-in-his-last-drama-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Park-Seo-Joon-speaks-on-the-criticized-representation-of-independence-fighters-in-his-last-drama-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;I never tried to insult the independence fighters while filming, but seeing these reactions, I realized it might be portrayed that way. <strong>I don&#8217;t believe that the K-Drama insults the independence fighters<\/strong>. They are the reason why I am alive today&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>On the other hand, after the first season of the series became an international success on the streaming service, the <strong>second installment<\/strong> was announced, which will take place in the current Seoul and will be released sometime in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 11th, the renowned actor Park Seo Joon had an interview with the media outlet OSEN, where he responded to strong accusations of insulting Korean independence fighters in &#8216;Gyeonseong Creature&#8216;. After the release of the first season of the series on the Netflix platform on December 22nd, many viewers discussed and criticized the representation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":101284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1934],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-k-drama"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101275"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=101275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}