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Related: About this forumNBC Apologizes After Japan Comment Draws Anger in South Korea
Source: New York Times
NBC Apologizes After Japan Comment Draws Anger in South Korea
By AMY QIN FEB. 11, 2018
SEOUL, South Korea The American network NBC has apologized after one of its analysts drew anger for a comment during coverage of the Pyeongchang Olympics that seemed to gloss over South Koreas painful history with Japan, its former colonial master.
The analyst, Joshua Cooper Ramo, made the comment while appearing with Katie Couric and Mike Tirico during the opening ceremony on Friday. Noting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan was in attendance, Mr. Ramo described Japan as a country which occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945, but every Korean will tell you that Japan is a cultural, technological and economic example that has been so important to their own transformation.
The remark immediately ignited outrage in South Korea, the Olympic host nation, where resentment of Japans harsh early 20th-century annexation of the Korean Peninsula continues to simmer. Just last month, Mr. Abes attendance at the Games was in question after tensions escalated over Japans refusal to reissue an apology for the Japanese militarys role in forcing Korean and other women to work in military brothels during World War II.
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By AMY QIN FEB. 11, 2018
SEOUL, South Korea The American network NBC has apologized after one of its analysts drew anger for a comment during coverage of the Pyeongchang Olympics that seemed to gloss over South Koreas painful history with Japan, its former colonial master.
The analyst, Joshua Cooper Ramo, made the comment while appearing with Katie Couric and Mike Tirico during the opening ceremony on Friday. Noting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan was in attendance, Mr. Ramo described Japan as a country which occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945, but every Korean will tell you that Japan is a cultural, technological and economic example that has been so important to their own transformation.
The remark immediately ignited outrage in South Korea, the Olympic host nation, where resentment of Japans harsh early 20th-century annexation of the Korean Peninsula continues to simmer. Just last month, Mr. Abes attendance at the Games was in question after tensions escalated over Japans refusal to reissue an apology for the Japanese militarys role in forcing Korean and other women to work in military brothels during World War II.
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NBC Apologizes After Japan Comment Draws Anger in South Korea (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2018
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still_one
(92,439 posts)1. I have been watching some of the events, mostly ignoring the commentators, but a couple of days ago
did catch Katie Couric with another commentator trying to inject politics into the narrative which at the time I thought was pretty inappropriate.
Doesn't surprise me too much though if I recall she was one of the biggest cheerleaders pushing our invasion in Iraq
Demit
(11,238 posts)2. Shocking ignorance. So embarrassing. That's our schools for you :(
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. Did this man study propaganda or advertising in college?
Every Korean won't tell you anything. NBC needs to hire an analyst and move this guy to its business promotion department.
CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)4. He's the HEAD of H Kissinger's consulting firm. You think he'd know...
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,471 posts)5. hold my beer
Did Ramo take note of Pence's blunders and think, "Oh yeah? Hold my beer and watch this!"?
Maybe NBC would do well to cover the -games-.