Concerns over Japan Television Broadcasting Corporation's drama series "Snowdrop" are escalating to the point that it is generating fake news.

It was announced on Wednesday that Blackpink's fan club, which is located on the online community platform DC Inside, "has nothing to do with the false news that has been circulating in regards to [the Blackpink fans] leading group action to make complaint calls to the Lee Han Yeol Memorial Museum," according to the statement.

In response to criticism that the drama series, which is set in Seoul in 1987 during the height of democratic movements against the military rule, romanticizes the Communist Party, the network has suspended production. It is not a political narrative, though; rather, it depicts the story of a South Korean college girl (played by Jisoo of Blackpink) and a North Korean spy who falls in love (played by actor Jung Hae-in). The figure of Jung is harbored by college students who are fighting against the dictatorship and mistakenly believe that Jung is a fellow pro-democracy activist.

Online commenters have slammed the fan club for reportedly making complaint calls to the Lee Han Yeol Memorial Museum for criticizing the drama in which the actress stars, as well as for criticizing Jisoo's performance in the drama. The museum released a statement after the first two episodes of the show were shown over the weekend, expressing dissatisfaction with the way the show portrays history. Lee Han-yeol was a student activist who became a national emblem of Korea's democratic struggle after his death. He was 22 years old when he was slain during the revolt movement in 1987.

Because the dictatorship in Korea at the time justified its brutal crackdown on pro-democracy activists by claiming that they were simply hunting down North Korean spies or communist sympathizers, the inclusion of a North Korean spy in the drama to play the role of a pro-democracy activist caused some viewers to feel uncomfortable.

According to the fan club, they discovered that such a claim regarding filing complaints with the museum was made by an anonymous netizen on the DC Inside page of "Snowdrop" on the DC Inside website.

The Blackpink fan page manager explained that while the item was quickly erased by the [page] management, it was screen-captured and spread around the internet with false information that it was Blackpink fans who advised taking group action to make complaint phone calls.

"DC Inside is an anonymous community where anyone can say anything without having to create an account," said the statement made by the fan club's manager on its website. Therefore, this anonymous netizen, who did not even post a comment on the Blackpink fan page, should not be considered a fan of the girl group." Thank you for refraining from additional criticism in regards to this erroneous information."