In the reversed world of today where the best golfer is black and the best rapper is arguably white, could the best Korean footballer be wearing the colors of the North, not the South?
If the Herald comes out and says that the best hookers aren't, in fact, Korean, I'll crap my pants. Korean papers throw lines like the one I quoted all the time and it's really hard to point out all of them. They're noteworthy not for simply being insanely backwards, but for being completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. An article about a North Korean soccer player couldn't go more than a sentence without commenting on the absurdity of a colored man playing golf and a white man singing black music. If the papers aren't going to employ editors, at least have them keep the sterotypes out of the English-language articles.
Worth pointing out that the North-South match in question will be held in North Korea and will not feature the South Korean flag or the South Korean national anthem, as both have been banned by the Dear Leader.
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It seems they are referring to Chris Rock's rampage about the war on terror. Remember? HE ("not the racially ham handed Koreans") also commented on the French calling Americans arrogant and the Germans not wanting to start a war. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/chrisrock.asp
Without knowing this reference to Chris Rock, I wonder who is been "racially ham handed"?
Who knows if they were making an allusion. Who knows if Rock's line was even translated well enough into Korean to be understood. Who knows if they even knew it was a joke. Regardless of whether they were making an allusion, I think we all can agree that a line like that is completely out of place and inappropriate in an article about a North Korean soccer player. Roughly akin to making a joke about South Korean red light districts when talking about Ichiro Suzuki.
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