Criticizing General Yi Sun-shin?

Lines that criticized the great General Yi Sun-shin could be heard on the KBS weekend drama "Lee Soon-sin is the Best". In the scene where Lee Soon-sin had an interview, there was a line saying, "Is Lee Soon-sin really your name? How about signing up for ocean patrol and protecting Dokdo?" and Sin Joon-ho (Cho Jung-seok) also said, "Lee Soon-sin is on a 100 won coin not a 1,000 won".

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Netizens portray their anger at the defaming of one of their greatest heroes in Korean history and say, "This is ridiculous, playing around with the name of one of our greatest people", "It upset me the whole time watching it, "Apologize immediately" and more.