The story of a 9-year-old Korean boy living near Dallas, Texas, who took the lead in removing the Rising Sun flag video from the site of a magazine published by the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, has been told.
According to a Facebook post by Professor Seo Kyung-duk of Sungshin Women’s University on the 9th, Kim Hae-den, a 9-year-old elementary school student from Korea, discovered the Rising Sun Flag while watching a video on the Smithsonian magazine site.
The video was about the history and science of domestic cats, and the Rising Sun Flag was used as a backdrop in the case of Japan.
Kim, who discovered this, sent a protest email to the Smithsonian asking for the Rising Sun flag to be removed, but the museum responded only formally, “Thank you for the email,” and did not remove the video for over a week.
After hearing this, Kim’s mother asked for support from the American community, and many people joined the protest and eventually removed the Rising Sun Flag from the video.
Professor Seo said, “How wonderful this is.” “If I go on a business trip to Dallas, I’ll make sure to treat this family to a meal once.”
He also introduced, “Followers living in Qatar recently protested with local residents against the appearance of a large advertisement picture showing Japan’s Rising Sun flag cheering on the outer wall of a shopping mall in Doha, Qatar, and it was removed.”
Professor Seo said, “In the past, if you saw the Rising Sun flag, you reported it to me along with a picture, and our team mostly changed it, but nowadays, we protested directly and change it and contact us more often,” said Professor Seo.
Reporter Lee Bo-bae, Hankyung.com newsinfo@hankyung.com
