KBS Says: “P.S.M is Lee Suman. JYJ, Apply for a Second Deliberation.”
KBS has revealed its official position on its ruling that JYJ’s Pierrot is unfit to air because it criticizes a particular person.
KBS’s deliberations office conveyed to Star News on the afternoon of the 29th on its ruling that Pierrot is unfit to air: “P.S.M is generally known in the industry to be referring to Lee Suman.” (JYJ3 Note: Wow. This is not the first time that KBS made a very obvious and easily-verifiable lie in such a strangely public manner: see here.)
They continued: “As we evaluated the whole of the lyrics, five out of the seven of the deliberation committee members evaluated that it was criticizing a particular person.”
JYJ is arguing that it did not have an opportunity to give prior explanation and that the decision was arbitrary. At this, KBS’s deliberations office revealed: “It is not an arbitrary interpretation. Out of seven members, five came to the same interpretation.” (JYJ3 Note: As even young children probably understand, plurality has nothing to do with whether something is arbitrary. A decision is arbitrary if it is made with no evidence, even if it is the majority or even the unanimous opinion.)
Continuing, they explained; “If we were to say that P.S.M. is not a designation of Lee Suman but rather an abbreviation for “professional, success, music” then it does not fit in with the rest of the lyrics.” (JYJ3 Note: JYJ, unsurprisingly, has never claimed that P.S.M. is abbreviation for “professional, success, music.” Our readers have far-better suggestions…)
KBS deliberations office revealed: “To apply for a second deliberation for a song that was deemed unfit can be done any time. If one requests the opportunity to explain, that can be done at any time. Before the deliberations, when there is an item that evokes extreme curiosity or is difficult to discern the meaning of, we do ask the writer or the affiliates for the meaning. But this is not “explaining,” it is just merely inquiring beforehand what the item in question means.” (JYJ3 Note: Obviously there is no actual distinction between the two. When one inquires about what a word means, the answering person naturally explains what it means.)
[Portions previously translated by and posted on JYJ3 omitted]
Aside from the injustice, it is always difficult to comprehend that this kind of stupidity is actually coming out from a major network of a nation…