(Hanoi) Hanoi has asked Netflix to remove a South Korean series from its platform, one episode of which, evoking the Vietnam War, “distorts history” to the detriment of communist power, state media said on Wednesday.
Posted yesterday at 10:12 a.m.
A government agency blames the tragedy Little Women to violate a law that fights against those who “distort history, deny revolutionary achievements, and offend the nation and its heroes”, in a letter sent to the American giant streamingquoted by the site Vietnamnet.
“The series conveys dialogues between characters who praise the crimes of Korean mercenaries in the American war in Vietnam in 1967,” the online media said.
Authorities set Wednesday as the deadline for the platform to remove the series, but by the afternoon the series was still available in Vietnam, AFP found.
In the 8e episode of Little Womenloosely adapted from the novel The four daughters of Doctor March (Little Women in English) by American Louisa May Alcott, a veteran boasts of the South Koreans’ lethal effectiveness against the Viet Cong.
More than 320,000 soldiers from South Korea, an ally of Washington, were sent to Vietnam between 1964 and 1973 to fight alongside the Americans, engaged against the communist forces of North Vietnam.
They have long been accused of committing mass killings of Vietnamese civilians.
Netflix did not respond to AFP’s requests for comment. The South Korean series it broadcasts are very popular across Asia.
Since 2020, Netflix has removed three series from its catalog in Vietnam after complaints from local authorities who accused it of “violating the sovereignty of the country”.
australian series Pine Gap and Chinese Put your head on my shoulder had been targeted because of a map of the South China Sea that showed islands claimed by Hanoi as belonging to Beijing.
The American Political Series Madam Secretary was pulled from screens due to a scene in which the Vietnamese old town of Hoi An was depicted as Fuling, China.