India, Oct. 27 -- A petition has been filed before South Korea’s National Assembly seeking to halt the broadcast of the currently airing K-drama “Doctor X: Mafia in White” starring Kim Ji Won and to review how a recent episode was produced, after backlash over its inclusion of the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising. The petition relates to the show’s sixth episode, which aired on Oct. 24.
Petition and episode at the centre of backlash
The controversy centres on the sixth episode, in which Kim Ji Won’s character, Gye Soo Jeung, attempts to remove a bullet lodged in a patient’s brain for 46 years.
The injury is linked in the storyline to the military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Gwangju in May 1980.
According to Korea Herald, th...