“Kim passes to Kim, Kim passes to Kim, Kim passes to Hwang, and Hwang passes to Hwang…
Experience the Qatar 2022 World Cup, Korean game commentator.”
Australian sports betting company TAB posted this on its official Twitter account.
Along with this article, TAB posted a picture of the Korean national team, and the four defenders, Kim Jin-soo, Kim Min-jae, Kim Young-kwon, and Kim Moon-hwan, were marked as ‘Kim’ (Kim ).
In addition, Hwang In-beom, Hwang Hee-chan, and Hwang Eui-jo wrote ‘Hwang’ in the midfielder and striker.
It deals with the fact that commentators are in trouble because there are four of the Korean defense line in Mr. Kim, and there are three Mr. Hwang in the midfield and attack.
However, Australian public broadcaster SBS reported on the 25th local time that criticism of ‘normal racism’ had been raised in Australia over this message posted by TAB.
Reporter Marc Di Stefano of the Australian Financial Review also posted a picture of the TAB post on his Twitter account and criticized, “I wonder why the TAB social network service people don’t mention Argentina Martinez.”
Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, defender Lisandro Martinez and striker Lautaro Martinez share the same last name.
Shawna Yang, one of the Korean-Australian founders of social media platform Cozycom, responded to TAB’s tweet, saying, “It’s not funny. It’s just ignorant and rude.” No, she said.
However, some claim that it is a simple fact that many players in Korea share the same last name, and that mentioning this is not racist.
“It’s common in sports to joke about players with the same last name,” said Twitter user Justin Rabby.
A user named David Lee also wrote, “I was born in Korea, and this is not racism,” and “I feel bad that Lee is missing.”
However, when such an argument arose, TAB deleted the post and explained that it was an inappropriate post that did not meet the company’s standards, “and we decided to check it before posting it in the future.”
