Taegeukgi wallpaper on US NBC Abe attack report… Online mockery

US NBC broadcaster Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, has been the subject of ridicule online with the Taegeukgi floating on the background screen.

According to Britain’s Independence and others on the 9th (local time), the NBC Today Show showed Tokyo’s landmarks as a wallpaper while a reporter reported “gun violence is extremely rare in Japan” on news about former Prime Minister Abe.

Then, as the reporter said, “Japan’s firearms laws are one of the most stringent in the world,” a material screen appeared with the Taegeukgi fluttering on five flagpoles.

In addition, a screen of data showing Gwanghwamun in Seoul was also reported in the Today Show report, The Independent reported.

NBC is currently in the process of modifying related videos posted on its website and YouTube channel.

However, immediately after the report, viewers and social media users started mocking NBC for confusing the flag online.

Curtis Hook, editor-in-chief of Newsbusters, a conservative-leaning media watchdog group in the United States, captured the scene of the flags fluttering in the background of the NBC Today Show breaking news about the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and posted it on Twitter, saying, “Well, the country is wrong.

Today show,” he wrote.

A social media user named Rachel Horton wrote in a comment to the tweet, “They will put the blame on the summer intern. I’m sorry,” while another user pointed out that “interns also search Google.”

Another user replied, “By God’s grace, please let us teach more geography in American schools.”

Previously, NBC made an official apology when a commentator during the broadcast of the opening ceremony of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics caused a scandal with remarks that seemed to support Japanese colonial rule in Korea.

/yunhap news