Trivia / The Simpsons S22 E3: "MoneyBART"

• Creator Backlash: Though clearly intended as a satire of outsourcing, AKOM, the South Korean-based animation company that does most of the show's animation, was not at all pleased with Banksy's couch gag, which they felt degraded them and their work, and perpetuated the stereotype that Asian animators slave away in sweatshops when, in fact, they do their work in high-tech workshops in modern, developed cities. They even requested certain particularly dark jokes be removed from the sequence and threatened a walkout over it. Though they still did it, they were described as doing it reluctantly, and under protest.
  Nelson Shin, founder of AKOM: Most of the content was about degrading people from Korea, China, Mexico and Vietnam. If Banksy wants to criticize these things ... I suggest that he learn more about it first.

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