South Korea Shark: Million Fans Hope Rescue Fails
From the BBN segment “A Wayward Shark Becomes a Celebrity in South Korea”, cut down to under a minute.
The full story and the real reporting behind it (The New York Times) →
From the BBN segment “A Wayward Shark Becomes a Celebrity in South Korea”, cut down to under a minute.
The full story and the real reporting behind it (The New York Times) →
What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: The New York Times.
Kenji MoonfieldTime to pay that off: a ten-foot shark has been stuck in a port waterway in South Korea for weeks, and more than a million people have come to look at her.
Vera BullockA million people. Officials are now trying to guide her back to open sea, which sounds like the hardest customer service call in the world.
Kenji MoonfieldShe took a wrong turn, got stuck in a harbor, and now she has a crowd. That's a better launch than most of my channels.
Vera BullockWeeks, Kenji. She's been lost for weeks, and the public has made it a sightseeing trip.
Kenji MoonfieldA million fans, and she just wants to go home.
Vera BullockEvery one of them hopes the rescue fails, so they can come back Sunday. Nobody is saying it, but it's true.
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