Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment from AFP. The streaming service was told to remove the show by Wednesday, state media said, although the series was still available to watch by the afternoon. The letter added that the series 'conveyed dialogues between characters that praised the crimes of Korean mercenaries' during the war. In a letter sent to Netflix, Vietnam's Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information said the series violated the country's law against 'distorting history, denying revolutionary achievements, offending the nation and the nation's heroes', according to Vietnamnet newsite. It is not known how many North Vietnamese soldiers were killed by South Korean troops during the war. He then goes on to say the ratio was even higher in South Korea's favour among the country's elite soldiers. That's 20 Viet Cong killed for one Korean soldier dead'.

The war veteran in the series, a Korean, tells one of the main characters in the show that 'in our best battles, the kill-to-death ratio for Korean troops was 20:1. They have long faced allegations that they committed mass killings of Vietnamese civilians. More than 320,000 South Koreans were sent to Vietnam between 19 to fight alongside US soldiers. In episode eight of the 12-part drama, which is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott, a war veteran from South Korea is seen bragging about the 'kill-to-death ratio' between troops from his country and the Viet Cong.

HANOI: Vietnam has asked Netflix to stop showing the South Korean drama series Little Women in the Southeast Asian country, alleging the series distorted events of the Vietnam War, state media said Wednesday (Oct 5).

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