copy, flattery and those sorts of things

[xanderave.livejournal.com]

EBS Apologizes for Copying Japanese TV Program

The Korea Education Broadcasting System (EBS) apologized Tuesday for plagiarizing a Japanese television program. It said "Sci-Fun," a science experiment program, outsourced to a subcontractor, was found to have copycatted a similar Japanese TV program.

The program in question was aired July 23 and carried out experiments regarding musical instruments and paper cup phones.

However, the experiments borrowed ideas from the Japanese program "Odoroki no Arashi," a science experiment program hosted by the popular Japanese pop group Arashi. Plagiarism was first raised as an issue by Arashi fans in Korea.

"We issued an apology to our audience and cancelled the contract with the subcontract producer," an EBS official said. "We will take all steps to stem piracy in the future."

EBS also admitted that another episode of the program, aired last week, involving grafting watermelons and other melons, is suspected of being a copy as well.







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I think they should have just bought the rights to the show and subbed/dubbed it into Korean. At least, you get to watch Arashi on tv!

Comments

[aikyo16.livejournal.com]

oh lol.

[mycutykoala.livejournal.com]

W-Wow.

Thanks for posting the article by the way. o_o

[fukyouwaon.livejournal.com]

lol

[s3mp0i.livejournal.com]

i remember this episode in odoroki arashi..
i agree with u..they should just bought the rights to arashi's show..

p/s by d way, arashi's experiment is approved there in korea..huhu

[xanderave.livejournal.com]

Arashi gets "stamp of approval" for being educational!

[choberibad.livejournal.com]

Odoroki no Korea? lol.

shame... and to think they're strict about piracy/file sharing over the internet?

[aniga64.livejournal.com]

You mean Korea or Japan? Japan's quite strict, but Korea not so much (from what I've heard anyway).

[meoinkie2.livejournal.com]

should i be amazed that Arashi's shows are being copied nowadays?? xD

[meoinkie2.livejournal.com]

thank you btw for sharing the article!! ^_^

[sallyxiah.livejournal.com]

lol..
"I think they should have just bought the rights to the show and subbed/dubbed it into Korean. At least, you get to watch Arashi on tv!"

i agreed!!! Better subbed than dubbed..

Unlikely...

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think Uncle Johnny would allow it. (^.^;)

[nakahara02.livejournal.com]

ia! (:

[ichaa.livejournal.com]

i amazed how popular is odoroki in korean. lol

prove that arashi is creative. haha

[oh-chappy.livejournal.com]

LOL xD

[brandybelle.livejournal.com]

as sad as this sounds, its really rather amusing. i mean honestly, arashi does everything from singing to acting, radio and news, to experiments, which another country decided to "borrow" ideas from. oh the world is such a small place.... haha

[alphanumerx.livejournal.com]

i knew that those experiments were waiting to be copied and they were =P

[alphanumerx.livejournal.com]

oh, but i wasn't expecting them to be that blatantly copied (i just saw the pictures)! wow, couldn't they have been a bit more subtle than that?

[godsgirl7.livejournal.com]

Did they really think they were gonna get away with that, especially considering how many fans Arashi has in Korea? ^_^;; Oh wow...

[xanderave.livejournal.com]

Well, I think the person was probably banking on the fact that Korean fans are too busy stalking idols to watch an educational show :P

[matsumazing.livejournal.com]

arashi is getting more popular..

and the fans love them and trying to protect arashi and their rights..

[syarinzz.livejournal.com]

ehhh???what are they thinking???copying the experiments tht arashi has done??? O___O
thanks for sharing the info~

[minamichan03.livejournal.com]

err.. copycats!

yaa.. they should have at least bought the rights! >.

[cresentruby.livejournal.com]

sad news, but at least Korea television still admit the plagiarism, not like my country clearly do plagiarism, still insist its different, by the way i'm from indonesia, so lots of indonesia TV show is plagiarism.
the most iritating one is 1 litre of tears

[xanderave.livejournal.com]

S.Korea is near to Japan and there are lots of Arashi fans there too. Even if they tried to deny, their netizens are a scary bunch to go against. Other countries won't really get lots of flak from the public the same way S.Korea does. We just shrugged it off and say "Ah, I've watched that before."

[pebblegosling.livejournal.com]

....hah.
Go Korean Arashi fans, I say.

[yachiichan.livejournal.com]

Wow.
Sorry i know this is really unrelavant.
But does anyone know who was hosting that korean programme?

[aishoni.livejournal.com]

hmm.. I think the phone-book experiment in Odoroki was done first by Mythbuster but Arashi did it their own way. They didn't follow the original to a tee (I bet Arashi didn't even know Mythbuster did it first) unlike this Korean copycat.


I want a Mythbuster vs Arashi Odoroki showdown. Add it to the wish list!

[xanderave.livejournal.com]

I want a Mythbuster vs Arashi Odoroki showdown. Add it to the wish list!

What do I get out of it? >D

[haruchaan.livejournal.com]

HAHA. Arashi/AIBA is EXTREMELY educational. XDD This is amusing. Rofl. Arashi pwns, yeah.

[tangerinesun.livejournal.com]

and it all started from A no Arashi! Thanks Aiba-chan!
lol. ftw

[aniga64.livejournal.com]

lol; doesn't Korea have enough interesting experiments 'n stuff? (like how listening to classical music actually makes one physically weak)

[kitsie-chan.livejournal.com]

Arashi's educational, stamped and approved. xDDDDD

Should I feel amused or proud at the fact that they're being copied in Korea now? :P You would think they would try and be more subtle though. :p

[chazarst.livejournal.com]

Wow. That experiment with the watermelon and melon/cucumber is like 100% plagiarism