China’s largest portal Baidu Netizens pay attention to Korea’s top 16
| Herald Economy DB |
[헤럴드경제=채상우 기자] The Korean national soccer team revived its glory in 2002 and defeated Portugal to advance to the World Cup round of 16. As Japan and Korea show the potential of Asian soccer, on the contrary, Chinese soccer fans who might not participate in the World Cup are feeling uncomfortable.
On the 3rd, news regarding advancing to the round of 16 in Korea is pouring out on Chinese media and social networking services (SNS). On Baidu, China’s largest portal site, the Korea-Portugal match also rose to the top of the search terms.
Many Chinese people congratulate Korea for advancing to the round of 16, but on the contrary, there are also quite a few voices that envy or disparage it. In particular, there are many who insist on match fixing. One netizen said, “I can’t understand the World Cup match fixing.” There was also an opinion that “Portugal might have scored a goal, but deliberately did not.” There were also comments such as “It was intentional that Ronaldo assisted,” “This World Cup has too many fakes,” and “Korea and Japan, who have a lot of money, bought the round of 16 with money.”
Another netizen commented, “Korea advanced to the round of 16 because they ate Chinese kimchi, so thank China.”
Meanwhile, early in the morning of the same day, the Korean national soccer team secured a 2-1 come-from-behind victory thanks to Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton)’s innovative goal in the final 3rd game of the group stage of the Qatar World Cup.
Korea will fight Brazil, the favorite for the championship, for tickets to the quarterfinals at the 974 Stadium in Doha, Qatar, at 4:00 am on the 6th.
