Suriname is to explore legal action against the producers of South Korea’s hit Netflix series Narco-Saints, which fosters negative images of the country by portraying it as a “narco state,” its government has said.
The show, released this month and titled Suriname in South Korea, tells the story of a man who risked his life to join a secret mission to capture a South Korean drug lord operating in Suriname, based on real-life events from about two decades ago.
However, the Latin American country said that the show presented it as a “narco state” based on past “crime and cross-border activities,” which the government had tried for decades to eradicate.
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“Suriname no longer has the image that emerges in the series or no longer participates in these kinds of practices,” Suriname Minister of Foreign Affairs Albert Ramdin said in a statement posted on Monday on the government’s Web site. “Whether the practices presented ... are true or false, it’s creating a negative perception. The whole world sees these things, so this is not good.”
Ramdin said that he would consider taking legal action against the producers and lodge a diplomatic protest with the South Korean government.
South Korea had not received any formal statement from Suriname on the issue, an official at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
Moonlight Film, which coproduced the series, referred queries to Netflix.
Perfect Storm Film Inc, the other producer, was unavailable for comment.
A Netflix official also declined to comment.
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