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The OTT Disney+ entertainment show "Fate War 49" production team expressed its position in this regard as it caused controversy by using the cause of death firefighters as the subject of the mission.
The production team of "Fate War 49" told Star News on the afternoon of the 18th, "The individual's story appearing in the program was provided with understanding and consent based on prior consultation and explanation with the person himself or his or her family. In this process, we guided the planning intention and composition of a survival-type program in which fortune tellers appear, and consent was also made to provide related information and use of portraits."
They added, "The production team was fully aware of the sensitivity of the issue and carefully reviewed the relevant contents throughout the production process to produce the program."
"Fate War 49" is a thrilling survival entertainment in which 49 doomsayers gather to test their fate through various missions.
While previously showing the 1st to 4th episodes on the 11th, it drew controversy for dealing with the mission of "Guessing the Dead Sign" in the 2nd episode.
The production team provided photos, raw fish, and the timing of death of the late firefighter Kim Chul-hong, who died at the scene of the fire in Hongje-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul in 2001, and made the cast infer the cause of death. Consuming the noble sacrifice of the deceased as an entertainment element, it drew criticism from viewers that "there is no courtesy for the deceased."
On top of that, the controversy spread as the bereaved family directly protested. A, who identified himself as Kim's nephew, said on the 18th, "The production team said they produced the broadcast to honor the noble sacrifice, but honestly, I don't understand it at all. I don't know if it's a broadcast with the purpose of the public interest. (Fate War 49) I heard a recording of the writer's phone call with my aunt, and she said that a shaman comes out, and she said that she honors the noble sacrifice by seeing what kind of person the righteous is through her fortune. But when I saw the contents on the show, I was guessing how the deceased died, and the cast members were amazed and smiling. "I have no idea how this is honoring my uncle's sacrifice, and I did not understand how he would denigrate the death of a person who died while saving someone else," he criticized again.
"Even now, 25 years later, my family is still crying just hearing about my late uncle, but I'm so angry," he said.
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