I see people are all over the place on Twitter/X and other platforms, so I'd like to just quote this from a post on X (I will post this under the discussions for others to see too):

Here is the actual factual ground truth from South Korea to save you from the timeline panic

The petition on the National Assembly board is real (due to a historical detail dispute in Ep 11), but its actual threat level is completely overblown. A petition needs 50,000 signatures in 30 days just to be reviewed by a committee—it is nowhere near a binding law.

Furthermore, a local government committee has zero legal authority to force a global, US-based platform like Disney+ to wipe an independent piece of intellectual property from its worldwide servers.

It takes 7 days for a petition to fully process so it seems these people were already planning a scheme towards the actors and the drama from the moment ep11 aired. This isn't anything but a smear campaign now. If we take it into account: Snowdrop faced intense public backlash over allegations of historical distortion and romanticising the South Korean regime. It received a whole lot of hate and controversies before and even during airing, with and even had a massive petition sent to the South Korean presidential Blue House which garnered over 365,000 signatures. But it's achievements globally and on Disney+ - it was NEVER removed. The Blue House dismissed the formal petition to stop the broadcast, as the law protects artistic freedom, but JTBC network later issued formal apologies and released episodes 3 through 5 consecutively to contextualize the storyline and alleviate concerns. It still remains iconic till this day. Actors are free to talk about it.

All we can do now is ignore everything and just go with the flow. This is just a minority of people who want to apply a smear campaign on Perfect Crown and its actors due to its immense success. Being realistic: there's no way a drama whcih garnished intense popularity and broke records nationally and worldwide would be removed from a global, US platform this easily. These people need to actually get a grip. I also hope the production team fight for the drama's rights and speak up or something.

The production team and Director Park Jun-hwa have already chosen a practical route: they formally apologized and explicitly stated they are simply editing and patching the specific audio/subtitle scenes for all future streams. Both IU and Byeon Woo-seok also handled it with immense grace, posting sincere personal apologies on Instagram taking full responsibility as lead actors. This is no longer constructive criticism or hate: it's a smear campaign that's been calculated to tarnish all the actors and the drama's success.

Petition is only a weapon of agitation, and the drama cannot be forcibly stopped as a petition.

Most of the people who submitted this petition are haters who already have a 'grudge' against the lead actors, especially the right-wingers who hate IU for donating food to the impeachment demo supporters at the end of 2024. So this petition doesn't represent the public who have actually moved on from this controversy.

Needing 50,000 in a country with millions of people, where there was even a drama that had over 300k and it wasn’t removed..... They can keep making mockery of themselves atp.
Well, this is not even our headache to bear, may they keep having headaches over PC till their heads blow off💀

The domestic noise is already settling. The show concluded its domestic broadcast run at an incredible 13.8% series high and is currently dominating at No. 3 Worldwide on Disney+ with 490 points. It is NOT being deleted; it is simply being patched behind the scenes. Rest easy! 📈👑✨