Earlier, the Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information Le Quang Tu Do asked Netflix to quickly handle the film due to the fact that there was a historical distortion.
At noon on October 6, the Korean film Little Women was officially removed from Vietnam’s Netflix online movie platform. When searching in the toolbar, users will not be able to find the movie, nor on the trending movie lists.
Little Women was officially removed on Netflix Vietnam
Earlier on October 3, the Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information Le Quang Tu Do had a written request to Netflix to remove the movie Little Women from the app store in Vietnam due to misleading content. history. The violations are reflected in the character dialogue and the details that mention the Vietnam War, specifically at minutes 58:01 – 58:22 of episode 3 and minutes of 05:41 – 07:01 of episode 8 According to Mr. Tu Do, the above details violated the prohibited acts specified in Clauses 4 and 9 of the Press Law on distorting history, denying revolutionary achievements, offending the nation and violating the law. prohibited acts in cinematographic activities specified in Clause 4, Article 11 of the Law on Cinema with the same content as the above-mentioned provisions in the Press Law.
In addition, the document of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information also sets a deadline for Netflix to make the request on October 5. However, by the end of October 5, the film still exists on the Vietnamese platform, but has not been satisfactorily resolved. Even many viewers had to voice reminders, constantly leaving comments under Netflix’s posts to promote the matter to be quickly handled.
Little Women is about the lives of three Oh sisters and how they struggle in life. In the film, there is a scene where the three people encounter Tinh Lan Hoi – a secret society whose original members are Korean veterans who participated in the Vietnam War. At this time, the misconceptions about the war that Korea participated in as an ally of the US military appear more through the character’s dialogue.
Immediately after the episodes containing false content aired, the wave of criticism, anger and boycott of the Vietnamese audience towards Little Women grew and increased on social networks. In addition to the content that distorts history, the film is also involved in noisy plagiarism of images from Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido, making the public even more angry.
The movie has been involved in plagiarism before
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