From the drama “Youth of the bare foot” where Um Aing-ran & Sin Seong-Ir played the leading part and that caught the best popularity at the time of the 60s, to KBS entertainment show “sponge” that it is in a topic recently, the plagiarism suspicion of our cultural products considerably has a long and enormous history.

Also longevity show “whole country singing contest” catches the suspicion that copied “whole country singing contest” of Japanese NHK.

You can indicate “insensitivity to plagiarism” and “lack of voluntary criterion” of producers as the cause that the issue of plagiarism does not die out. Also the indecisive punishment for the plagiarism work is one of the causes. The scathing monitoring of netizens and audiences offsets such facts.

There was an MBC drama “Youth” case in 1999 as the representative example that the active will of the audience caused a very big ripple. In those days the broadcaster did not show any movement particularly until the protests that this drama plagiarized “love generation” of Japanese Fuji TV were accepted at the audience corner of the PC communication in succession.

However, the situation took a sudden turn when an audience who lived in Jonan copied the tape of Japanese drama and accused it in a newspaper publisher and the broadcast committee. The characters, the summary and screen direction technique of two works looked just same.

The writer and the director came to recognize this plagiarism after all. The broadcaster decided halfway getting off, and broadcast Committee gave a disciplinary measure to plagiarism of Japanese TV shows for the first time in Korean history (March 12). Not only that, the writer was expelled from association of broadcast writers.

However, it is the fact that the plagiarism comes up as a hot issue again when the plagiarism comes to be forgotten in afterward. I will investigate the examples that a plagiarism scandal was submitted mainly on TV show.