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North Korea has mosaic-processed Lee Kang-in's goal scene, which is controversial internationally. Lee Kang-in's penalty goal scene at the FIFA (International Football Federation) Club World Cup was blurred. This is interpreted as a deliberate control not to show the performance of Korean players to their own people.
Give Me Sports of the United Kingdom announced on the 23rd (Korea time) "North Korea's Korean Central Television has blurred the moment when one of the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) players scored a goal."This scene occurred during a Club World Cup match at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles, where North Korea delayed the match five days after the actual match date."
PSG, the winner of last season's UEFA Champions League, won a 4-0 victory over Spain's Atletico Madrid on the 16th. Lee Kang-in raised his confidence by scoring a goal for the first time in a long time.
The media pointed out North Korea's control of information.
The media reports "In the totalitarian reality of North Korea, where access to external information is extremely controlled, even international sporting events are tightly controlled by state broadcasters"There was also an extreme case of such control during the 2010 World Cup. At the time, the majority of North Koreans believed the distorted information that Portugal, not Spain, had won, aimed at exaggerating the system's sporting competitiveness by manipulating that North Korea had lost to the winning team" he insisted.
In this context, the scene in which South Korean soccer players, North Korea's hostile country, are active on the global stage is also controlled. North Korea's broadcaster mosaic-processed Lee Kang-in's jersey number and face, and did not even mention who scored the goal. Simply explained PSG's victory.
Not only Lee Kang-in, but also many overseas players have not been able to appear on North Korean broadcasts. In fact, it is estimated that there are many North Koreans who do not even know the existence of Korean players.
Give Me Sports said, `Chosun Central TV broadcasts the English Premier League and Champions League games, which are usually held in Europe, at one to two hours just before the 5 p.m. news,' adding `However, most of the games played by South Korean players such as Son Heung-min (Tottenham), Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton), and Lee Kang-in (PSG) are omitted or the player's presence is mosaicized.'
North Korea's atrocities do not stop there.
At the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-17 (under 17) Women's Asian Cup, the Korean national flag on the sleeves of Korean players' uniforms was mosaicized. It also caused controversy by referring to Korean players as the `Team Korea of Thugs.'
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
