On the 14th, Google Korea's Vice President for Foreign Cooperation Policy Hwang Seong-hye said at a meeting of the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communications Committee that the government had not requested the removal of the content.
Choi Hyun-doo (who attended the parliamentary audit of the Broadcasting Media and Communications Committee and asked why 12,000 comments on a piece of content asking for President Lee and his wife's refrigerator were deleted)
Choi Hyung-doo, a lawmaker from the People's Power Party, responded as follows: "Google's community guidelines state that 'discussing high-ranking public officials or leaders is a violation of policy.
"The president and his wife will not appear on such a program. The public must have expressed various opinions about it, but it was deleted," he said.
In response, Vice President Fan said, "There are rules called community guidelines for content comments, and if they are violated,
"I understand that comments that contain spam, repetitive comments, or violent language will be removed, and if there are a large number of them, they will be automatically removed."
He added, "We also give channel managers the power to moderate content."
Prior to this, President Lee and his wife appeared in the "Refrigerator" issue of the mid-autumn celebration (Chuseok, mid-autumn festival) to promote K-food.
However, in the comments section of the video, there was a message saying that a fire at the National Information Resources Management Agency (at the time) had paralyzed the entire administrative system and killed a civil servant in charge.
Given the circumstances, there was a flood of criticism that it was inappropriate for President Lee and his wife to appear on the program, and the show drew mixed reactions.
2025/10/15 20:54 KST
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