“Perfect Crown” Pushes Through With Offline Events Despite Controversy

Recently, the K-Drama Perfect Crown has been receiving heat for its historical inaccuracies.

“Perfect Crown” Commits Historical Blunder In Recent Episode, Public Outraged

As the controversy continued to grow, the actors posted apology letters online, while the director bowed his head in apology, revealing that he would take full responsibility for the matter.

“Perfect Crown” Director Finally Speaks Out About Recent Controversies

Most recently, netizens that bought pre-sale tickets to the drama’s pop-up store, received a notice regarding a change in the event dates.

“Hello, first, we would like to apologize to everyone who was planning to visit the drama’s pop-up store. While the pop-up store was scheduled to run for 10 days (5/19-5/28), due to operational reasons, it has been changed to run for seven days (5/19-5/25).

Product sales will run until 5/23, and from 5/24-25, products will only be put on display. We truly apologize for the sudden change in schedule.”

However, netizens were disappointed and demanded they shut down the event altogether.

• “And yet they are still trying to make money by opening it for a week.”
• “What do you mean by early closure when you are still running it for a week?”
• “Fans are really amazing…they are actually buying it?”
• “And yet they are still trying to make money off the merch.”
• “They are only cutting it down by three days? I guess they could see that they wouldn’t sell much because of the controversy.”