Money Today Reporter Park Hyo-joo | 2023.02.09 07:09
A black and white photo of Son Heung-min was posted on Tottenham Hotspur’s official SNS (social network service) account of the English professional football Premier League (EPL) and is controversial.
On the 8th (Korean time), Tottenham posted a black and white photo of Son Heung-min wearing a uniform and looking down on the club’s SNS. A framed emoticon was attached to the photo without any explanation.
Fans at home and abroad who saw the photos were shocked. This is because black-and-white photos can be interpreted as mourning the deceased or praying for his repose.
The black and white photos posted earlier by Tottenham were also for memorial purposes. I posted a black and white photo when I was mourning coach Gian Piero Ventrone who passed away in October of last year, and it was the same when I was commemorating Pele, the “soccer emperor” who passed away in December of last year.
Korean fans who saw Son Heung-min’s black-and-white photo said, “Is Son Heung-min dead?”, “What do you mean by suddenly posting a black-and-white photo? Even if you delete it, be sure to explain it”, “Is the UK racist like this?”, “What is the intention? I’m annoyed. I’ve crossed the line” and so on.
Foreign fans also reacted similarly. They said, “Why black-and-white photos. Change them to color”, “I was shocked to know Sony was wrong”, “Don’t you know what a black-and-white photo means”, “Don’t surprise the fans with photos like this”, “This is Tottenham Is it racism?”, etc.
This is not the first time Son Heung-min’s black and white photos have been controversial. Even in September 2021, Tottenham posted a black-and-white photo of Son Heung-min, bringing criticism upon itself.
At that time, only Son Heung-min was tagged without any special explanation, and it was difficult to know the exact intention, so fans who misunderstood that something bad had happened to Son Heung-min were criticized.
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