Following
the public uproar for jokingly likening the skin colour of a Nigerian
student to charcoal, a Korean politician Kim Moo Sung has apologized. Moo-Sung, a front runner for the 2017 South Korean presidential
elections and the leader of the country’s ruling conservative Saenuri
Party issued
the apology after public criticism over his comment.
"I failed to realise that showing friendliness this way could hurt
someone’s feelings," Moo Sung wrote on his Facebook page on Friday, December 18. "I am really sorry and there is no excuse. I sincerely apologise from the bottom of my heart"
Moo
Sung made the comment while delivering coal briquettes to the needy in
Seoul alongside a group of foreign exchange students earlier on Friday.
The event was part of a charity programme which drew around 40
students from 27 countries as well as 50 young members of the Saenuri
Party.
"Your face colour is the same as the briquettes’ colour," the 64-year-old said to a Nigerian student while laughing.
The
26-year-old Nigerian student who is attending a local university on a
South Korean government scholarship, Babalola Joshua Adekunie, said he
did not take offence.
"I don’t give any special meaning to it," Adekunie told local news outlet Focus News. "He said it jokingly. He was laughing. Personally I’m a black man… It’s nothing that I am ashamed of."
When he was asked if he thought Kim should apologise to him, Adekunie replied in Korean: "Guenchanayo (No problem)".
82 comments:
Foolish pple,ds is racist again
He must be out of his senses before
To be sincere,most really dark skinned people kinda look like charcoal...
Alrite,apology accepted....Go n sin no more lolz....Happy sunday libers
Mumu man, his eye like palm kanel
Guenchanayo!!! #IRepLIB
Beta 4 him to so! White pple way get odour self!!! Mtcheeeew.
Am pretty sure the man meant no offence when he said this. Is just one joke gone bad.
The world needs peace makers and not racist, how about dat idiot. ....
Smart move my brother,just ignore the comment
We don suffer! Even Koreans too dey talk.
Apology accepted.
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LOOK AT DIS MAN....
OKAY...
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PROUD OF YOU MY BRO
He probably didn't mean it that way,and he apologized so no harm done
Am black am proud. This whites sef
#Hajia Mufliat
Nice one.
#Dakinzz
Good he apologized, but he's an idiot tho
Good he apologized.
The face on the Nigerian though.
I am a black man and my face looks like charcoal. And i am happy,confident and proud of my skin colour. In fact, i cannot like a skin colour better than black. My best colour is black. A deep black colour on a woman thrills me and attracts her to me.
I so love that Adekunle now.
I am black.... Charcoal is black. As long as what you liken my colour to is really black, how am I supposed to get offended?
Sincerely speaking the mind of Amadioha
Old news. We don read am pass two days ago.
What a dumb way of using simile.Good thing he's apologized
Just imagine calling God's creature charcoal.
Well, he won't make a good president with this controversy. Besides, he apologized because of his presidential ambition.
You will not win sef
Oh!
Dat was too harsh and d joke is too expensive. All d same apology accepted.
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Enter your comment...apology not accepted
Ok apologies accepted even though we know it looks like charcoal but it is rude to tell us...Thank you.....ProudlyDeltan
Similar to 'see as u black like charcoal' or is it cos it's coming from a white to a black? I love the black guy's response tho'
idiot man..you get luck...#boardsplanebacktonja
The Nigerian is right. Facts are facts. He truly looked like he rubbed the charcoal on his face. And why is his skin so patchy, really? He probably needs to use some more antibiotics on his skin. Some Africans looked really dark and beautiful in their black skin. But this sky has patches caused by infection.
Matter been taking care of
Nonsence. What kind of joke is that.
Nonsence. What kind of joke is that.
But the guy resemble the charcoal na
I love d reply "my black dude gave" if its not dark skinned THEN 4get it
After saying rubbish,you apologize not minding the hurt you have cause that person...arrant nonsense
Racists every where even this chinco Korean, smh!
~D great anonymous!
Black and Proud
Which kind yeye joke be dat??? Does he know what his eyes look like?
He was only joking.
Jmmm...u get luck say Bible say mek we dey forgive people like u
He shud take dat apology and shove it up his short smelly ass...fucking Korean!
He shud take that apology and shove it up his smelly ass...fucking Korean man!
Why will u be ashamed of ur colour.......Blacks that is who we are and we can't be compare to any colour on earth that has no resistance 2 any climatic change.........am black and proudly nigerian.
Apology nat accepted
Silly man, See his eyes like palm kanel
Is it coz it's coming froma a white guy? We say even worst things to ourself. Imagine a black guy telling another black man he is as black as amala ibadan pls wats the diffrent? Besides we even compare dem to more worst things.
😁 that should be taking as normal joke. Next time u see him tell him he looks like raw meat
D black guy b Lookin like charcoal lol
Enter your comment...stupid korean man ...see his eye ....baboon
Why do black people find it offensive to be called black? IMO it's inferiority complex which is why they bleach. Why is white considered better than black? God knows why he created Black people so why can't we embrace our color with pride?
Dt is how you will not see the sign of racism when you find yourself in d same situation.
I'm feeling shame for you over this comment.
I don't see anything there. It was a joke. If he had a complex about his skin colour, that's when it would have hurt him. The boy is quite matured.
I tire my brother
First anonymous, And what did you look like if the guy truly look like charcoal? Fool, you're not different from the Korean politician.
*do you*
The man is a big fool and looks like a pigggg
And this politicians be talking anyhow
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We need to calm down sometimes, we say worse things. One lady in my office is called kiwi by another dark person and we all laugh. Cos both are dark though the lady's skin glows.
good he apologized....I thought he was insensitive to d fact Man is not what he is because of skin colour....
Ode ni e.
Lmao. And these yeye igbo boys will be going to marry chinko babes. Anyway is for papers no ni. no true love. Just a fetish. tit for tat.
So what if we say it to ourselves?. It doesnt make it ok. Have u never seen were siblings fight themselves and get defensive and attack any outsider that fight the siblings. It's the same concept here so stfu olumide. Soon u will say white slave owners are justified in treating black people like Trash. Please receive brain now and stop talking rubbish
Asians are dull racists and speak like fools. No tact. No be today we are just knowing that.but na them ugly pass. Soo Moving on
Abi. Over sensitivities to tins like dis equal inferiority complex
I c no issue in this,he was joking we need to be proud of our skin,it is not a racist comment.
Thats amazing, i love that! The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice!
:LINDA NWAGOD:
Racism wil never die
Just negodu
Medicine after death
His cup of Kanu
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I didn't blame you, Gini na Onye ocha Anya Azu.
Ok oo.
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You are an idiot... Joshua has being a first class student since undergraduate days,he will lecture you flawlessly. Omo oshi
Joshua is so meeek, he will never take offence in anything...#MadeOfBlack
Thank God he took back his comment o, else....u know d rest.
#TyNo
Coming from a white bleached face *runs away*
Onyx it is like you have a mental problem. I don't mean this as an insult, but I think you need serious psychiatric care ASAP, to uncover any abuse in your childhood that has confused your sexuality and made you such a shameless self-hater. I genuinely hope you get the help you need.
Since i came to the US,i just discovered that people read too many meanings to things.Persinally,i don't think he meant it as an insult,the man obviously was joking.Anyway,he don apologise.
he forgot that all a assians looks like monkeys and they dont need any one to tell them that. they should go to theor zoo with mirror in their hand and take a good look at the monkeys their and look themself from the mirror before b insulting other race. I have always said it Assians are wicked. if not for our useless leaders who have refused to develop our country what will Nigwrians be looking for in desaster prone areas. God help us.
He said sorry drop the case already.
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