As its known, the “24/365 with BLACKPINK” is a reality show where Lisa, Rosé, Jisoo and Jennie interact in front of the cameras.
A trailer for the new chapter of this program was recently published. As we can see, the girls went to the Everland Park. They took care of a baby panda, consequently, they caused a controversy on social media.
Chinese culture consider the panda a sacred animal and they are specialized for the breeding, preservation and the study of this specie. Specie that has been in danger of extinction. In consecuence, the chinese netizens started to say that the behavior of the four girls was not correct.
The China Wildlife Conservation Association sent a letter to Everland, they requested that the baby pandas should have contact only with professionals and trained people, in addition, they demanded that the scenes of other people living with these animals hasn’t to be showed.
So then, YG Entertainment released a new statment explkaining that they decided to postpone the new chapter of the show
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They added that the BLACKPINK members took care of the animals, and the professionals, workers and veteriarians where present. Also, that they followed the correct protocol
“To respect the recommendation of the experts in panda conservation we have decided to postpone the premiere of the video”