Suriname threatens legal action over South Korean hit Netflix show

A Netflix brand is proven on a TV display screen forward of a Swiss vote on a referendum known as “Lex Netflix” on this illustration taken Might 9, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Illustration/Recordsdata

SEOUL, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Suriname will discover authorized motion towards the producers of South Korea’s hit Netflix (NFLX.O) collection “Narco-Saints” which fosters destructive photographs of the nation by portraying it as a “narco state,” its authorities has stated.

The present, launched this month and titled “Suriname” in South Korea, tells the story of a person who risked his life to hitch a secret mission to seize a Korean drug lord working in Suriname, primarily based on real-life occasions from about twenty years in the past.

However the Latin American nation stated the present offered it as a “narco state” primarily based on previous “crime and cross-border actions” which the federal government had tried for many years to eradicate.

“Suriname now not has the picture that emerges within the collection or now not participates in these sorts of practices,” International Minister Albert Ramdin stated in an announcement posted on Monday on the federal government’s web site.

“Whether or not the practices offered … are true or false, it is making a destructive notion. The entire world sees these items, so this isn’t good.”

Ramdin stated he would think about taking authorized motion towards the producers and lodge a diplomatic protest with South Korea’s authorities.

South Korea had not acquired any formal assertion from Suriname on the problem, an official at Seoul’s overseas ministry stated on Thursday.

Moonlight Movie, which co-produced the collection, referred queries to Netflix. Excellent Storm Movie Inc, the opposite producer, was unavailable for remark.

A Netflix official declined to remark.

Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Modifying by Stephen Coates

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