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South Korean hit Netflix show 'Narco-Saints' angers Suriname

The Latin American country will explore legal action against the Netflix series that fosters negative images of the country by portraying it as a "narco state", says FM Albert Ramdin.

Show titled "Suriname" in South Korea, tells the story of a man who risked his life to join a secret mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in Suriname.

Suriname will explore legal action against the producers of South Korea's hit Netflix series "Narco-Saints" which it said fosters negative images of the country by portraying it as a "narco state," its government said.

The show, released this month and titled "Suriname" in South Korea, tells the story of a man who risked his life to join a secret mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in Suriname, based on real-life events from about two decades ago.

But the Latin American country said the show presented it as a "narco state" based on past "crime and cross-border activities" which the government had tried for decades to eradicate.

"Suriname no longer has the image that emerges in the series or no longer participates in these kinds of practices," Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin said in a statement posted on Monday on the government's website.

"Whether the practices presented ... are true or false, it's creating a negative perception. The whole world sees these things, so this is not good."