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Kamala Harris is the US Vice President-elect.

Harris-elect, who has a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, is expected to be the'first vice president of a colored race'.

There is a controversy that it seems that the color of the skin was adjusted to white when a picture of Harris-elect was put on the cover of the famous fashion magazine Vogue.



Reporter Jung Hye-kyung reports.



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is the cover photo of the February issue of Vogue fashion magazine.



The main character is Kamala Harris, US Vice President-elect.



However, it was pointed out that the skin color of Harris-elect in the photo was different from the actual one.



Isn't it that Vogue's side artificially corrected the skin color of Harris-elect, born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, to make it whiter than the original.



Here's another picture that Voguege initially agreed to use as a cover with the Harris-elect, but the fact that he had changed it without consulting it further fueled the criticism.



Harris's side is known to have expressed embarrassment.



It was also pointed out that in the picture chosen for the cover, the overall outfit and background of Harris-elect Harris were awkward.



Vogue officials explained that not only did not deliberately whiten the skin color of the Vice President-elect Harris, and that the cover was chosen with a picture that best expresses his personality.



The controversy surrounding the cover is leading to the so-called'white washing' debate, a term referring to the cast of white people even for non-white characters in movies.



(Video coverage: Oh Young-chun, video editing: Hwang Ji-young)