Article: "It's hard to continue with Sulli's absence"....why 'Night of Hate Comments" decided to terminate the program
Source: Sports Chosun
JTBC's 'Night of Hate Comments" will be terminated.
An official from the program stated on the 21st, "that the 16th episode that aired on Friday October 11th will be the program's last episode."
The official stated, "After hearing the sad news, we decided to stop production because it would be hard to continue with Sulli's absence. We feel honored to have spent time with the confident and beautiful Sulli and hope she will rest in peace. We thank viewers who cared for 'Night of Hate Comments' and sympathized with our intent to raise awareness regarding malicious comments."
Although highly recommended by the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCC), the program received significant backlash after news of Sulli's passing. Many netizens asked for the program to be terminated pointing out that the show might have been an environment that forced Sulli, who was an MC on the show, to become even more sensitive to malicious comments.
As a result, the production team made the decision to terminate the program. It has been 4 months since the program aired its first episode. The show had already filmed its 17th and 18th episode with Sulli but because they weren't able to reach her, they filmed the 19th episode without her. According to the official, these episodes will not be aired.
- [+3,512, 27] I think this is the best choice.
- [+2,277, 97] It was a program that should've been cancelled a long time ago. I saw it on Twitter once and couldn't figure out why they thought a show like that would be fun? Did they think those dirty comments would be entertaining?
- [+1,606, -29] The only answer was to cancel the program. I saw a clip online and couldn't control my anger.
- [+328, -14] I feel even more sad now...
- [+296, -3][ I think they should've had a psychiatrist on the panel. It's hard to read comments like that and be ok.
- [+190, -5] Please comeback with a 2nd season so that we can track down the malicious commenters.
- [+213, -38] But where's the evidence that Sulli died because of the malicious comments?????? She even had a schedule the next day and ordered fresh groceries the day before. But all of sudden she was depressed and committed suicide?
- [+87, -2] Honestly they shouldn't have called Sulli to that show in the first place..
- [+60, 0] A lot of people think it was illuminati though...
- [+46, -3] You shouldn't have created a program like that in the first place..