Active as a Chinese short track technical coach at the Beijing Olympics
‘Taiwan’ is marked as a separate country from China in my wife’s shopping mall
Chinese netizens hate it and even apologize
Hyunsoo Ahn / Photo = Yonhap News
Ahn Hyun-soo (Victor Ahn, photo), who served as the technical coach for the Chinese national short track team at the Beijing Olympics, is predicted to have difficulty continuing his activities in China.
On the 17th, China’s state-run media, China Horyun Network Shimbun Center, reported that “Ahn Hyun-soo apologized for his wife’s mistake, but there will be no undone.”
Ahn Hyeon-soo has been evaluated as a “short track genius” and “a young father full of friendliness” in China, and has emerged as a promising star in the world. However, when his wife’s cosmetics company listed Taiwan as a country separate from China on its website, it became a problem, and Chinese netizens began to resent it. China has been insisting on ‘one China’ that Taiwan has no right to be recognized as a separate country.
Horyunmang Shimbun Center also commented, “There will be no future activities for Ahn Hyun-soo as a short track coach in China.” Companies that used Ahn as their model, such as Junlebao, recently announced the termination of their contracts. Antipathy continues, such as demanding.
Jang Ji-min, Guest Reporter at Hankyung.com newsinfo@hankyung.com
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