“I think Yuna Kim has become a real model”… Japanese media compared to rival Mao, what does it mean?

When a Japanese media introduced Mao Asada (31), a Japanese figure skater, Kim Yu-na, a gold medalist of Korea’s ‘figure skating queen’, who was a rival, also mentioned.

On the 31st of last month, the Japanese media News Post Seven published an article titled ‘Life after retirement that is completely different from Yuna Kim and Mao Asada’.

News Post Seven first reported on Yuna Kim’s current situation.

The media said that after introducing Kim Yuna’s pictorial that was recently published in Harper’s Bazaar Korea in September, the reaction was ‘sexy’ on social media.

According to the media, reporter A, who covered Yuna Kim during her active duty years, saw the pictorial and said, “Yuna Kim’s style has not changed even after 7 years have passed. highly rated

Reporter A, who was famous as a rival with Mao Asada for a long time during her active career, said that if you look at the Instagram of the two players, there is a significant difference in their images.

At first glance, it seems that both of them are introducing sponsored products, but Mao Asada feels familiar, such as cooking.

He also said that he wondered what kind of conversation they would have when Yuna Kim and Mao Asada, who spent their teens and 20s competing with each other, meet each other in their 30s.

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