Foreign man kissing female diver statue in Jeju sparks outrage

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Foreign man kissing female diver statue in Jeju sparks outrage​

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Foreign man kissing female diver statue in Jeju sparks outrage

• SEOUL – A foreign man sparked outrage online after a video of him hugging and kissing a statue honoring Jeju’s haenyeo, or female divers, went viral, news reports said on July 3.
• The video shows the man climbing onto the statue near Hamdeok Beach in Jocheon-eup, Jeju City, and making lewd gestures towards it while his companions laugh nearby.
• The foreign man has reportedly lived on Jeju for about a year.
• Jeju haenyeo, which roughly translates to “women of the sea”, are free divers who can hold their breath for long periods as they harvest seafood from the ocean.
• They are designated as National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 132 and Important Fisheries Heritage No. 1, and their culture is inscribed in UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
• Statues honouring the haenyeo have been installed across the island since the 1990s by local governments, fishing village associations and private organisations, particularly at ports, beaches and coastal villages.

According to the other news, the Korean who filmed this video made an apaology saying he felt 'ashamed and embarassing,' but the foreigner did not make an apology but said he did not know his action is considered offensive and asked people to blur his face.

 

[Eisenhut]

Cecaland again?

 

[syed putra]

 

[RelativeMath8994]

Shitskins never fails to make people laugh, cringe and disgust at the same time.

 

[WangChuk]

kiss only lah ... boleh lah ... he not rabba rabba below to white paint her undies ...