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On January 23rd, Professor Seo posted on his Facebook page, "That's why the British Museum surrendered to the indiscriminate attacks of Chinese netizens." It seems that they were scared because it was the first time he experienced the typical form of Chinese net users.
Professor Seo said, "A world-class museum should have taken a more rational 'measure' rather than try to 'avoid' the immediate controversy, but it's just a shame. It's just a shameful measure," he said.
On the 20th (local time) ahead of Lunar New Year, the British Museum held events such as Korean traditional performances titled 'Celebrating Seoul Lunar New Year'. Although he wrote "Korean Lunar New Year" in the publicity message, he was attacked by Chinese netizens.
After that, the British Museum posted a picture of a woman from Qing Dynasty China on its SNS on the 22nd (local time) and attached the hashtag "Chinese New Year", an English expression meaning "Chinese New Year".
In addition, through multiple sources of information recently, it was confirmed that 6 out of 20 clubs, including the England Professional Football Premier League (EPL) match between Manchester City and Arsenal, celebrated the Chinese New Year on SNS.
At the Lunar New Year event held at the Prime Minister's Office last week, Professor Set touched on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's speech in front of people related to South Korea, China and Vietnam, describing it as the "Lunar New Year". He stressed that the museum and Premier League clubs' "Chinese New Year" notation "goes against the current trend in the UK".
Professor See said, "In the near future, we will send a protest email to the British Museum and each Premier League club, saying that the expression of 'Lunar New Year' is correct instead of 'Chinese New Year', and we will take measures to prevent such a thing from happening again."
2023/01/29 09:52 KST
