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CCTV KBS Joy shuts down program involving the late newscaster

Cable TV channel KBS Joy announced Tuesday that it has decided to shut down one feature of the celebrity gossip news, "Celebrity Magazine Entertainers", and to sack its host Seong Dae-hyeon over the suicide of newscaster Song Jee-seon Monday.

Emcee Sung and Cho Sung-hee made inappropriate and derogatory comments on the scandal involving Song and professional baseball player Lim Tae-hoon on last Friday's episode.

"We have decided to shut down MC Sung's feature following an emergency meeting on Monday along with the step-down of Sung. The entire staff will be replaced as well", announced KBS Joy on its official website. "We hope that this unfortunate event will not occur again in the future".

The program that instigated the controversy featured a topic on celebrities' obsessions with love last Friday, to which MC Sung made insulting remarks on the announcer and Lim, such as "one of the two must be psychotic". This feature was criticized especially in the wake of newscaster Song's death.


KBS JOY, 故 송지선 비하 논란 코너 폐지

케이블.위성 복수채널 사업자인 KBS N은 고(故) 송지선 아나운서를 비하했다는 지적을 받은 오락채널 KBS JOY '연예매거진 엔터테이너스'의 코너 '성대현의 시크릿 가든'을 폐지하고 MC 성대현의 하차를 결정했다고 24일 밝혔다.

KBS N은 홈페이지를 통해 "지난 20일 밤 '성대현의 시크릿 가든' 방송 중 故 송지선 아나운서와 관련 MC 성대현, 조성희 등의 부적절한 발언이 여과없이 방송돼 물의를 빚은 점을 진심으로 사과드린다"고 전했다.

이어 "23일 비상대책회의에서 제작진 전면 교체와 코너 폐지, 성대현 하차를 결정했다"며 "향후 이러한 일이 재발하지 않도록 더욱 주의를 기울이겠다"고 덧붙였다.

이 코너는 20일 '스타, 연인에 대한 집착'을 주제로 송 아나운서의 트위터 사건을 다루면서 '애를 데리고 놀았다' '둘 중 하나는 사이코' 등 송 아나운서를 비하하는 듯한 MC들의 발언을 방송했고 이같은 사실이 알려지자 인터넷에서는 '발언이 지나쳤다'는 지적이 잇따랐다.

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