The manufacturing staff behind ENA’s “True to Love” has apologized for the controversial dialogue in a latest episode of the drama.

In Episode 9 of the romantic comedy, which aired final week, Yoo In Na‘s character Deborah brought up the Auschwitz concentration camp while talking about the importance of taking care of one’s bodily look. In the drama, Deborah mentioned, “At the Auschwitz concentration camp… there were prisoners who received one cup of water, drank half of it, and used the other half to wash their face. And they would use a shard of glass to shave their face while looking at [their reflection in] the back of a food tray. And they survived.”

The character continued, “Taking care of your appearance and dressing up is a matter of survival. As a single person, shouldn’t I try to survive?”

After the dialogue sparked outrage from viewers each inside Korea and overseas, the manufacturing staff launched an official apology on May 18.

Their full assertion is as follows:

This is the manufacturing staff of ENA’s “True to Love.”

We apologize for inflicting discomfort by way of sure dialogue from Episode 9 of “True to Love,” which aired on May 9.

We ought to have spoken about it from a traditionally correct perspective, however we didn’t suppose issues by way of rigorously.

It was completely not our intention to make use of a historic tragedy calmly, and we sincerely apologize as soon as once more. We shall be much more cautious through the manufacturing course of sooner or later.

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