Hwang Dae-heon, the men's short track national team, expressed his gratitude to the group BTS leader RM and the fandom ARMY.
In the MBC 'Radio Star' broadcast on the 2nd, the men's short track relay team Kwak Yoon-gi, Hwang Dae-heon, Kim Dong-wook, Park Jang-hyuk and Lee Jun-seo, who participated in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, appeared as guests.
On this day's broadcast, there was a story about the absurd disqualification of Hwang Dae-heon and Lee Jun-seo in the men's 1000m short track semifinals at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
At the time, Kwak Yoon-gi, who publicly voiced criticism at the time, said, "I was just speaking what I felt, but there were a lot of messages in Chinese on social media. I guess I used Google Translator too kindly, so the harsh Korean came. It was also listed as 'Korean pink-haired player' in real-time search terms. Of course not, but the eyes of the Chinese volunteers were also scary for nothing," he recalled.
Hwang Dae-heon, who was disqualified, also suffered from malicious comments.
But it was the BTS fans who protected him.
Hwang Dae-heon picked RM as the person he wanted to express his gratitude to.
He expressed his gratitude to RM for publicly cheering for Korean short track skaters through SNS, saying, "I am very grateful to RM for giving me a message of support."
He added, "Chinese people are covering SNS with malicious comments. Chinese people sleep at night and wake up in the morning, but since ARMY has fans all over the world, they purify (SNS) with purple hearts without jet lag. I was so grateful for that."
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Reporter Kang Seon-ae
(SBS Entertainment News reporter Kang Seon-ae)