{"id":1498533,"date":"2022-05-31T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498533"},"modified":"2022-05-31T15:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:14:52","slug":"fact-check-did-time-magazine-publish-a-cover-featuring-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-time-magazine-publish-a-cover-featuring-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Time Magazine Publish A Cover Featuring South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol?"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-time-magazine-publish-a-cover-featuring-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol%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=1498533&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><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=7384681208269187&#038;set=a.123191447751569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a Time Magazine cover that features newly elected South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Time Magazine publishing such a cover. A spokesperson for the company denied the outlet published the cover.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yoon was sworn in as South Korea\u2019s president May 10 after winning the country\u2019s presidential election March 9, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/10\/world\/asia\/south-korea-yoon-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Skeptics fear he might use the power of the presidency to seek \u201cpolitical revenge\u201d against the opposing party and other political figures, Nikkei Asia <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Spotlight\/Comment\/South-Korean-president-elect-Yoon-seeks-timing-for-political-revenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image shows a purported May 14 Time Magazine cover that features Yoon and refers to him as \u201cThe Executioner.\u201d A line of text beneath those words reads, \u201cThe new President of the South Korea, Yoon Seok-yeol, began a ruthless purging.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/28\/fact-check-putin-hitler-time-magazine-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A Genuine Time Magazine Cover Related To The Invasion Of Ukraine?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cover is fake. It does not appear on Time Magazine\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/vault\/year\/2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2022 cover archive<\/a>. The outlet published two covers in May, one which shows billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/magazine\/us\/6171751\/may-9th-2022-vol-199-no-17-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elon Musk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/magazine\/us\/6176477\/may-23rd-2022-vol-199-no-19-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another<\/a> that features a picture of the ocean and discusses the climate.<\/p>\n<p>A Time Magazine spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/doc.afp.com.32B67DN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFP Fact Check<\/a> the outlet never published the cover featured in the Facebook post. The fabricated cover does resemble a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/magazine\/asia\/4767308\/may-15th-2017-vol-189-no-18-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 cover<\/a> about South Korea\u2019s previous president, Moon Jae-In. The 2017 cover dubbed the former president \u201cThe Negotiator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yoon was selected as one of <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/100-most-influential-people-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Time Magazine\u2019s<\/a> top 100 most influential people of 2022. The <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/100-most-influential-people-2022\/6177686\/yoon-suk-yeol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> about his selection highlighted his calls for closer relations with the U.S. and a tougher stance against North Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a Time Magazine cover that features newly elected South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.Verdict: False There is no record of Time Magazine publishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":1498568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}