"Choi Min Jeong is Chinese?"' There was one more 'one' who escaped the change of nationality! Official Canadian Public Broadcasting Correction Report "We misrepresented it"

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Canadian public broadcaster CBC, which recently mistook a Korean player for a Chinese player, officially admitted misinformation.

Canadian broadcaster CBC corrected misinformation about Korea at the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics through the sports section "Correction and clarifications" on its official website on the 16th (Korea Standard Time).

According to the CBC, a total of three South Korean players suffered nationality changes. The first case was Choi Min-jeong (28, Seongnam City Hall), who competed in the 2000m short-track speed skating mixed relay on the 11th.

The second was Ko Kyung-min (21), who competed in the men's 1,000-meter speed skating competition on Wednesday. Up to this point, he was known through Professor Seo Kyung-duk (52) of Sungshin Women's University, who first raised the issue.

Professor Seo said on his SNS on the 15th, "There is a controversy because Canadian public broadcaster CBC continues to introduce South Korean athletes as Chinese athletes in the broadcast of the Cortina Winter Olympics in Milan."

"When I looked at the video attached by the Koreans, I was referring to Korean athletes competing in various events such as short track and speed skating as Chinese athletes," he said, bringing this to the surface.

Additional damage was expected by saying it was a variety of events such as short track and speed skating, but the other was Hong Soo-jung (25, Gyeonggi Federation).

The CBC officially admitted, "Our Olympic relay team misrepresented the nationality of South Korea's Hong Soo-jung, who participated in the 3rd and 4th skeleton women's tournament on the 15th."

Hong Soo-jung is a skeleton helmet engraved with a tiger in a folk painting and has drawn attention from overseas as well. Hong Soo-jung finished the competition by ranking 22nd with a time of 3:54.73 in the individual skeleton category and 11th with a time of 2:01:45 in the mixed team event that she first competed with Jung Seung-ki.

In the skeleton mixed team event, which was introduced for the first time in this competition, it was close to the top 10 and showed its potential. After the race, he was seen bowing to the camera, warming up Korean fans who cheered.

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