President Yoon Seok-yeol is having a conversation with KBS anchor Jang-beom Park during KBS’s ‘Special Talk to the President’s Office’ held at the Presidential Office Building in Yongsan, Seoul on the 4th. Provided by the President’s Office
During President Yoon Seok-yeol’s New Year’s talk, the KBS anchor, who received criticism from various circles for indirectly referring to the luxury bag given to First Lady Kim Kun-hee as a ‘pouch’ or ‘small bag’, spoke directly about this controversy.
KBS anchor Jang-beom Park opened up on KBS News 9 on the 8th, the day after the interview, saying, “After yesterday’s interview, the controversy over whether it was a bag or a pouch suddenly started.”
He continued, “Both the bag and the pouch are in English,” and “What expression do foreign media such as the New York Times and the Washington Post use? They all write it as pouch.”
“The store employee who sold this product in Korea also said it was a pouch, and Mr. Choi, who visited first lady Kim Kun-hee, also described it as a pouch,” he said. “The product name is also pouch.”
In addition, he introduced a related report by saying, “Then where on earth did the expression ‘bag’ originate? Regarding this pouch, President Yoon Seok-yeol said that he would make sure that it does not cause concern to the public.”
Previously, Anchor Park’s pre-recorded New Year’s special conversation with President Yoon at the President’s Office on the 4th was released on the night of the 7th.
However, on the broadcast, anchor Park asked, “A video was released of a visitor leaving a pouch, a small bag from a foreign company, with Mrs. Kim,” which later became a hot topic.
There have been many criticisms that the political circles, the media, and the public are trying to minimize the issue by indirectly changing what has been called the ‘Controversy over Mrs. Kim Kun-hee’s receipt of luxury bags.’
Go Min-jung, a former KBS announcer and member of the Democratic Party of Korea, asked on BBS radio’s ‘Jeon Young-shin’s Morning Journal’, “How many KBS members felt a sense of shame when they saw the anchor not being able to name luxury bags.”
Former reporter Choi Kyeong-young, who recently left the company while hosting KBS’s ‘Choi Kyeong-young’s Strongest Current Affairs’, also said, “For broadcast purposes, it was called a luxury bag, and in the public, it was called a Dior bag, but since the media company has distanced itself from the world and is in love with Yongsan, it is called collusion of opinions, and in technical terms, it is a show.” “He said,” he criticized.
2024-02-08 13:18:08
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