KBS Deletes Official YouTube Channel After Making Colossal Mistake

An entire account, gone with the wind.

As South Korea prepares for its next presidential election, which will be held on June 3, 2025 (KST), the candidates are hard at work promoting themselves.

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Amid their passionate campaigns, the KBS broadcasting station’s KBS WORLD Arabic official YouTube channel has shown support for the People Power Party. During a recent presidential debate, KBS WORLD Arabic channel was spotted in the chat, rooting for candidate Kim Moon Soo.

PPP’s candidate Kim Moon Soo | Hankyoreh

Alongside other comments voicing support for their favorite candidates, the official KBS channel’s comment read, “Moon Soo is doing great tonight.”

| theqoo via @mingdezvous/X

Koreans have since slammed KBS, one of Korea’s three main public broadcasting stations, for the colossal mistake—with some even questioning if the station might have violated any laws in endorsing a specific candidate from a particular party during election season.

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• “Dumb*ss”
• “Of course, a KBS admin would make a mistake this stupid.”
• “This is why KBS went downhill.”
• “Is this even allowed? For a public broadcasting station to openly support a candidate like this?”
• “Regardless of political stance, I’ll never understand how anyone thinks that was a good debate.”
• “Election law violation right there.”

In response, KBS claimed that the channel was hacked…

| theqoo

[Notice] Hello. This is KBS News. Regarding today’s KBS News [LIVE] Presidential Debate Broadcast (Friday, May 23, 2025): We would like to clarify that the messages posted in the live chat under the “KBS WORLD Arabic” account were not written by an official KBS Arabic representative. It has been determined that the account was compromised, and an investigation is currently underway. We kindly ask viewers to refrain from posting inappropriate comments related to this matter. Thank you for your understanding.

— KBS

…but then soon wiped the entire channel off the platform.

“This channel is not available.” | @kbsworldarabic/YouTube

KBS WORLD Arabic used to have 290K+ subscribers as it shared K-Pop and other Korean entertainment content subtitled for its international viewers.

Following the “delete-and-run,” Koreans remain unimpressed and unconvinced by KBS and continue to press for a better explanation.

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• “Did KBS really take down an official channel like that???”
• “If it was indeed hacked, why delete the whole channel and run? LMAO.”
• “Why delete the account if it was hacked?”
• “WTF?”
• “Hacked, they said. Pfft. Haha.”
• “Wait, they said it was hacked. So what did they delete it? Shouldn’t they be investigating it? Isn’t that the logical thing to do?”

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