![]() Episodes 15 and 16 will air on the same day. JTBC announced that the 16th and last episode of “Snowdrop” will air on Jan. In the drama, the South and North Korean governments conspire for political power. The drama is about political conspiracy and espionage against the backdrop of the 1987 Korean presidential election and romance. They meet during a group blind date after which Eun Young-ro falls in love with him. Jisoo is 20-year-old Eun Young-ro, a first year college student at Hosoo Women’s University. In “Snowdrop,” Jung Hae-in plays the role of Im Soo-ho, a 27-year-old graduate student who is a North Korean spy sent to South Korea for a mission. In the Seoul metropolitan area, episode 12 of “Snowdrop” got a rating of 2.805 (seventh place), down by 0.322 percentage point compared to 3.127 percent (fifth place) for episode 11 among general programming cable TV shows.īased on the number of viewers, episode 12 was watched by 288,000 people (sixth place) in the Seoul metropolitan area, lower by 1,000 compared to 289,000 (fifth place) for episode 11. 22, Oh Jung-se’s drama “Uncle” placed first nationwide again with 8.856 percent while the news program “MBN Newswide” placed 10th with 2.808 percent. ![]() With this, “Snowdrop” did not enter the top 10 shows under the general programming cable TV for the day based on total households subscribed to paid platforms in South Korea.īased on the number of viewers, episode 12 was watched by 703,000 people (4th place) nationwide in South Korea, slightly lower by 21,000 compared to 724,000 people (fifth place) for episode 11. Chun was reportedly imprisoned and tortured, and her husband, who was falsely accused of being a North Korean spy, was tortured and killed.Jung Hae-in and BLACKPINK’s Jisoo in "Snowdrop" (JTBC) Jisoo’s character had to undergo a name change after viewers pointed out the similarities between her character’s original name, Eun Young-cho, and the name of pro-democracy activist Chun Young-cho. Viewers also accused the show of using names similar to symbolic figures during the movement.“Korea is a democracy, which is something that has been earned through hard work and through the pain and sacrifice of many innocent people … as the influence of Korean culture has been growing more recently, it is time to reconsider the weight of distorting history in the media.” Yet despite this history, the fact that the series has such a plot is distorting the value of the pro-democracy movement,” the petition read. “ It is a historical fact that protesters in the democracy movement were tortured and killed, being falsely accused as spies.The petition reportedly received 267,000 signatures in one day. A petition, posted on Cheong Wa Dae on Sunday, has called on local Korean broadcast network JTBC to cancel “Snowdrop” for distorting the pro-democracy history of South Korea.Many viewers were enraged that the show features a North Korean spy “potentially involved in or even associated with Korea’s pro-democracy movement.” They also found issue with the usage of a “historically significant” song that was played during a chase between a North Korean spy and an Agency for National Security Planning member, NME reported.At least 200 pro-democracy activists were killed. Protesters of Chun’s regime were reportedly accused of being North Korean spies and subsequently imprisoned, tortured and killed. The show is set during the political unrest in South Korea in the 1980s when citizens were fighting against the authoritarian regime of former president Chun Doo-hwan for democracy, Forbes reported.After they spend more time together, their relationship slowly turns romantic. Eun Young-ro mistakes Lim Soo-ho as a pro-democracy protester after he appears in her dorm room with blood on him.
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