"Music Core" Explains Decision To Move Forward With Live Broadcast Despite Staff Member Testing Positive For COVID-19

MBC’s “Music Core” has released a statement confirming that a member of their staff tested positive for COVID-19 before the show’s latest broadcast.

On December 18, it was reported that “Music Core” had decided to proceed with their live broadcast even after a member of the staff learned on set during pre-recording that they had tested positive for COVID-19.

Later that day, the “Music Core” production team responded by issuing the following statement:

Hello, this is the “Music Core” production team.

We apologize for giving viewers cause for concern with this unfortunate news.

On December 18, a member of the “Music Core” production staff tested positive for COVID-19.

The staff member in question, who was diagnosed as an asymptomatic case of COVID-19, had been fully vaccinated with two doses of the vaccine. In accordance with broadcast station “quarantine pass” regulations, which were recently made stricter to prevent the spread of disease, [the staff member] underwent PCR testing as a precautionary measure and later learned [that they had tested positive] after receiving their results.

After learning that they had tested positive during the December 18 morning pre-recording, [the staff member] immediately left the set, and after the “Music Core” production team checked [the staff member’s] suspected paths of movement within the studio and administered self-test kits to the entire staff, they restarted preparations for the live broadcast.

The staff members who may have come into close contact [with the patient] were excluded from production in order to undergo PCR testing, and it did not seem that [the patient] could have come into close contact with any of the other staff members or the artists’ teams based on their paths of movement.

“Music Core” will continue to pay even more careful attention to the health of its cast and crew, as well as preventing the spread of disease in accordance with government health authorities’ COVID-19 guidelines, in the future.

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