Lee Hyo-ri Quits Instagram After Mao Controversy
Popular South Korean entertainer, Lee Hyo-ri has decided to give up on Instagram:
Singer and entertainer Lee Hyo-ri is leaving social media, she announced on Instagram Wednesday morning, following a wave of criticism from people claiming they were offended by a comment she made on an MBC show.
“In the next three days or so, I will no longer be on Instagram,” she wrote. “It’s not because of the recent event (although of course I can’t say that it hasn’t been entirely irrelevant). I hoped this could have been the gateway for me to interact with fans who were always thirsty for my news, but this is more than what I’ve bargained for and it’s not easy.”In an Aug. 22 episode of “Hangout with Yoo,” a reality show on MBC, she suggested that she take the stage name “Mao.” That resulted in a barrage of negative posts on Instagram by those who interpreted the comment as a slight toward Mao Zedong, the Chinese communist leader.
Joong Ang Ilbo
“Hangout with Yoo” staff insisted in online posts that the name “Mao” was suggested generically and was not meant to make any sort of connection to the party leader. They also said that a different name has been chosen, while the scene has been deleted from the episode.
You can read more at the link, but Lee Hyo-ri was attacked by Chinese social media users after joking about the Mao name. It makes me wonder if this is another 50 Cent Army operation?
Beijing Boy found a new target of his affections.
Grow up J6. My wife, a lovely lass from Busan, is the target of my affections.
FYI, I served my country for six years in the Army and fourteen years in the Navy, finally retiring from the USN as a Petty Officer First Class. Denigrating my service, accusing me of not being American, and trying to imply that I am somehow a communist or communist-supporter is just trolling.
@johnhenry
I never take shots at you or your service. My nickname refers to that little troll Korean Man.
Thank you for that, J6. Other posters here, though have. Thanks to this lousy pandemic, I’ve been stuck here in Beijing while my wife is stuck in Busan. This thing needs to end quickly! The saddest is the politicalization of science and those who ignore actual competent scientists and medical officials are just keeping it going.
FWIW, KM doesn’t strike me as being from China. He’s more like some of those young college students in South Korea who have never paid attention to even one syllable about the world situation in their entire lives, until they end up in the military. That’s when they find out what’s on the line.
We call him Beijing boy because he sounds like he’s reading a commie script.
We tease you the same as we tease all the regulars. And except for your “canuckistani” views about Trump, we like you. If you were a real Canadian, it wouldn’t be funny to tease you.
Nah, KM is just a high schooler, newly enamored of “edgy” social commentary. Of course, he doesn’t realize that edgy requiares something a wee bit more current than M&E.
Fair enough. I’ll try to take the teasing in the spirit it’s meant.
Funny thing is I have a Canadian friend who is an ardent Trump supporter. Personally, I’m appalled that anyone, especially US military personnel, would support Trump. My father, a VMI graduate and retired US Army Colonel, and my oldest brother, a USMA graduate who left the US Army as a Major, both supported Trump; in Dad’s case until he died. My next older brother, a VMI graduate and retired US Army Reserve LTC, is like me: not a Trump supporter. To each his own, I guess.