News Taeyeon posts about KBS animal abuse controversy (1 Viewer)

[Abeamus]

On January 21, KBS issued an apology after a horse died a week after being used in filming for “The King of Tears, Lee Bang Won,” a traditional epic sageuk drama. To create a scene in which a character fell from a horse, the horse was pulled to the ground using a rope tied around its legs, and viewers raised concerns regarding animal abuse and the dangerous nature of the stunt.

On Instagram Stories, Taeyeon shared a screenshot of the complaint that Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA) filed against the drama and wrote, “The video was extremely painful to watch and brought tears to my eyes. It makes me angry. How can they film like that in this day and age.. It’s a horrifying thing for both the people and the animals. Was there someone who ran to check the horse’s state right away? Who on earth came up with this idea for this unbelievable method of filming?”

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[eclipsoul]

the horse was pulled to the ground using a rope tied around its legs

what the hell...

 

[Abeamus]

Also for those who haven't really heard about the controversy the horse was returned after the stunt but died a week later and I'll leave photos of the incident in a spoiler for anyone who wants to see it exactly

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[Abeamus]

what the hell...

Just hearing the idea you can tell it's horrible but somehow this got signed off on with the horse ending up hitting the ground with force as a result and while it got up on its own and they returned it while it was seemingly fine however it also died a week after the incident

 

[athenaaa]

That is awful Good for her for speaking out about it

 

[yeji]

this makes me so mad

 

[Deleted member 74]

I heard about this, I'm glad she spoke about it because it's terrible and should be a big deal
the way that horse was abused for a scene smh was there no other way to film it nicely
it's so sad and makes me so mad :c that poor horse was in so much pain