”Music Bank Global Festival” held in Japan, KBS decides to offer ”rewatch” due to discrimination against Korean viewers

The year-end music festival KBS's ``2023 Music Bank Global Festival'' has changed its stance by offering a re-watching service after receiving discrimination against Koreans.
On the 15th, KBS broadcast the ``2023 Music Bank Global Festival'' in place of the ``KBS Song Festival'' that was held at the end of every year. Consists of 2 parts, the first part is KBS Hall
The second part was a recorded broadcast from Belluna Dome in Japan. The first part broadcast in South Korea featured a special collaboration stage. Inheriting the passion of live broadcasting, we will perform it on record.
The second part of the concert featured a variety of performances by various artists to the enthusiastic cheers of the audience that filled the Japanese dome. "NCT 127", "NCT
DREAM”, “aespa”, “IVE”, “ZERO BASE ONE”, “GOLDEN GIRLS”, “SHINee”, “THE
A total of 38 groups appeared, including ``BOYZ,'' Lee Young Ji, ``LE SERAFIM,'' and ``New Jeans.''
However, the ``Music Bank Global Festival'' was criticized even before it aired.
Despite being a year-end festival in South Korea, we were criticized for announcing that it would be held in Japan, so we changed the Japan performance to be part of the Music Bank world tour and decided to hold it in Japan.
It was held as ``Bank Global Festival''. ``Music Bank'', which was praised as a K-POP festival that covers all generations, seemed to be coming to a smooth conclusion.
``Robal Festival'' once again caused controversy. This is because rewatch services in South Korea have been restricted. Amazon Prime
If you do not use Video, you cannot receive the service, and the platform is restricted in Korea.
As a result, Korean viewers' dissatisfaction grew. Also, unlike the actual performance held in Japan, the artist's stage was edited and broadcast during the broadcast, but such unbroadcast
A war of words ensued, with KBS, the public broadcaster, actually taking away the viewing rights because no Korean viewers could be confirmed. Perhaps it was because he was conscious of this kind of discriminatory affair. KBS said, ``Re-watching
The service will be available on the KBS website as a full version and special version from December 18th (Monday),'' and retracted its position that rewatching was not possible. This way
When Uni KBS belatedly announced that it would be offering a rewatch service including a special version in Korea, speculation continued that this choice was made in consideration of the backlash from Korean viewers.
I'm there. The 'Music Bank Global Festival' special broadcast will be broadcast on KBS 2TV at 11:45 pm today (17th).