C-netizens and K-netizens Get into War of Words Over Actress Zhang Jia Ning Wearing a Hanbok to Film a Tourism Video for Her Hometown in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture

So this is a big much do about nothing but does showcase how cultural tensions forever permeate the relationship between Chinese and Koreans. It’s almost lunar new year and stars along with ordinary folks are gearing up to or have already returned to their hometowns. C-actress Zhang Jia Ning was seen filming a tourism video this weekend that has K-netizens goats up. She is wearing what is clearly a Korean hanbok Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China. The area borders North Korea and has a huge popular of Chaoxianzu of ethnic Koreans living in China with Chinese nationality. The same brouhaha came during the Beijing Olympics when Chaoxianzu wearing hankoks was seen in the Opening Ceremony representing 1 of the 56 ethnicities in China. K-netizens are telling Zhang Jia Ning to take off the hankok and also mocking her for the culturally inaccurate much too large headpiece that looks like a pincushion on her head. Haha, ok now I can’t unsee it. Anyhoo, I’m just glad this isn’t another flap as big as the paocai/kimchee online brawl a few years ago.

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