{"id":1292594,"date":"2022-02-11T23:07:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T04:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1292594"},"modified":"2022-02-11T23:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T04:07:46","slug":"koreans-rip-up-chinese-flags-at-protest-accusing-host-of-cheating-at-genocide-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/koreans-rip-up-chinese-flags-at-protest-accusing-host-of-cheating-at-genocide-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Koreans Rip Up Chinese Flags at Protest Accusing Host of Cheating at Genocide Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkoreans-rip-up-chinese-flags-at-protest-accusing-host-of-cheating-at-genocide-games%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1292594&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Seoul-Protester-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>A South Korean civic group called the \u201cRighteous People\u201d tore up a Chinese Communist flag at a rally near the Chinese Embassy in Seoul on Friday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The event was a protest against what some South Koreans see as unfair referee calls at the Beijing Winter Olympics and the cultural appropriation of traditional Korean dress and food at Olympic ceremonies.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>South Korea\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220211006300315?section=national\/diplomacy\"><span>Yonhap<\/span><\/a><span> news agency quoted a few of the demonstrators:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Lee Eun-taek, head of the civic group, said he got very angry to see China undermining the spirit of the Olympics after culturally appropriating \u201chanbok\u201d (traditional Korean clothes) and kimchi from Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A woman, who introduced herself as a 20-something who once dreamed of becoming an athlete, said unfair refereeing can break the dreams of young people and condemned the South Korean government for not saying a single word of protest to the Chinese government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the men\u2019s 1,000m semifinals on Monday, South Korea\u2019s Hwang Dae-heon and Lee June-seo each got disqualified from their respective heats for an illegal pass and lane change, respectively. Those decisions each allowed Chinese skaters to advance to the final, and the host country ended up collecting gold and silver medals.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>A woman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3166389\/hanbok-years-kimchi-china-denies-cultural-appropriation-over\"><span>performing<\/span><\/a><span> at the opening ceremony for the Beijing Winter Games last Friday wore a white and purple hanbok dress, sparking anger about cultural appropriation on South Korean social media and criticism from some South Korean politicians.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>South Korea\u2019s ire was not soothed by pushback from Chinese nationalists on social media or the official response from the Chinese embassy that essentially claimed Chinese people have as much right to wear a traditional Korean dress as Koreans do because many ethnic Koreans live in China, so \u201cclaims of cultural appropriation are totally untenable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-southkorea-china-kimchi-idUKKBN28A2NQ\"><span>kimchi controversy<\/span><\/a><span> dates back to November 2020, when China secured certification from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for <\/span><i><span>pao cai, <\/span><\/i><span>a pickled vegetable dish from Sichuan province that is very similar to South Korea\u2019s signature dish, kimchi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>South Korean anger was stoked by Chinese state media declaring that because of the ISO certification, China was now the leader of the \u201ckimchi industry.\u201d A metaphorical food fight ensued as Chinese \u201cnetizens\u201d boasted that most of South Korea\u2019s kimchi is manufactured in China these days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI read a media story that China now says Kimchi is theirs, and that they are making international standards for it. It\u2019s absurd. I\u2019m worried that they might steal Hanbok and other cultural contents, not just Kimchi,\u201d one resident of Seoul complained \u2013 prophetically, as it turned out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Olympic judging controversy brought a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/beijing-olympics-2022\/furious-rivals-lodge-fresh-appeal-after-everything-goes-chinas-way-amid-cheating-accusations\/news-story\/39e8932b91fd68d5bfb95219edd3cd2e\"><span>formal protest<\/span><\/a><span> from South Korea\u2019s Sport and Olympic Committee (KSOC). Team South Korea held a press conference in Beijing to insist its disqualified athletes Hwang Dae-heon and Lee June-seo \u201cplayed fairly\u201d and were the true \u201cwinners\u201d of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Allegations of Chinese cheating spread like wildfire through South Korean broadcast and social media \u2013 and among Olympic athletes from South Korea and other countries, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/winter-olympics\/damning-photos-emerge-after-china-bias-accusations-at-winter-olympics\/news-story\/9eb4f945c90f9f431565ce13ab188637\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> biased judges were giving Chinese competitors a pass for technical violations that were invoked to disqualify Olympians from other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLooking at the way China won the gold medal, I felt bad that my younger teammates had to watch something like that. I thought to myself, \u2018Is this really what winning a gold medal is all about?\u2019 Things all just felt very hollow,\u201d sighed South Korean speed skater Kwak Yoon-gy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chinese Embassy in Seoul <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220209011900325\"><span>expressed<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cgrave concern\u201d on Wednesday about the growing allegations of cheating against China, firmly insisting that no such nefarious behavior had taken place at the Beijing Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSome South Korean media and politicians have criticized the Chinese government and Beijing Olympics as a whole, even instigating anti-Chinese sentiment, worsening the public sentiment of the two countries and drawing a backlash from Chinese online users,\u201d the embassy pontificated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean civic group called the \u201cRighteous People\u201d tore up a Chinese Communist flag at a rally near the Chinese Embassy in Seoul on Friday. 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