India, Oct. 26 -- South Korean actor Kim Ji Won's latest K-drama, Doctor X: Mafia in White, has been pulling in record ratings, but its latest episode has also landed it in hot water. The medical drama is facing backlash for bringing the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising into its storyline, with a petition filed before South Korea's National Assembly seeking to halt its broadcast and review how the episode was produced.

The controversy centres on the sixth episode, which aired on October 24. It features Kim Ji-won's character, Gye Soo Jeung, attempting to remove a bullet that has been lodged in a patient's brain for 46 years. The injury is connected to the military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Gwangju in May 1980.

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