Korean Kim Ga-Young banned from playing in Taiwan

[Da Poet]

Shameful and I understand they are spouting the whole "she is taking money out of the Taiwanese player's hands" (in tournaments) thing.

Duh!!

Shall we ban Allison, Karen, XTP?

No because we want the best. Apparently that is not that important to the Taiwanese pool world.

Is it the nature of these bans to really be permanent, or at some point, do they usually change their mind? In other words, are they serious or are they just making a statement?

 

[sniper]

I figured time would sort this story out, but man, what a bunch of children huh?

This is exactly what I thought when I first got wind of all this, it really looks bad on the Taiwanese pool scene, which is one the biggest and best pool markets in the world.

 

[PROG8R]

It's Taiwan's loss.
They will not see GYK's plumber's crack again.

I dont believe you. Any pics of this so called plumbers crack?

 

[Hoyo]

......Like Big Worm pointed out maybe this has something to do with her domination of women's pool in Taiwan because it sure seems like she's being targeted unfairly.

Taiwanese women players defeated Kim and Pan to win 8-ball and 9-ball Champion in Asian Game, so I think it is not the main reason. Taiwanese always regard Asian Game as the most important game, when the player win the golden medal, she (he) and her(his) coach both can earn NT3,000,000 (about US$91,102). Especially taiwan always give korean players much help (Jeong, Kim, Park..... have learned 9-ball in taiwan), the impolite korean team indeed get taiwanese team angry.

 

[Hoyo]

Relations between the Korea & Taiwan camps were pretty tense after the incident. The Taiwanese press exagerated matters to attack Kim, saying there was a change of attitude in her and that she didn't even greet or shake hands with Taiwanese players during matches.
(I think that's understandable considering the feuding atmosphere)....

Taiwanese knew Kim very earily, in fact, her first international game was Amway Cup when she was still a senior high school student. But when Lin (Lin was also 206 all Japan Open winner) beat Kim to win the 8-ball Golden Medal in Asian Game, Kim's face became very "cool" and didn't shake hands with Lin, it indeed hurt taiwanese feeling very much.

 

[parvus1202]

I think it's because Wu lost and they need someone to blame. Poor Kim.

 

[Wally in Cincy]

Shameful and I understand they are spouting the whole "she is taking money out of the Taiwanese player's hands" (in tournaments) thing.

Duh!!

Shall we ban Allison, Karen, XTP?

No because we want the best. Apparently that is not that important to the Taiwanese pool world.



PS-Miss Kim will be doing an exhibition in North Carolina on Feb 19th with Melissa Little. Details when i get them.

nostroke, you know her better than I but from what I have seen Ga-Young is one of the most well mannered players on the tour. Again, just from what I have seen, poor sportsmanship is the last thing anyone could accuse her of.

Let's hope this gets sorted right away

 

[Barbara]

Asian biases

sjm,

My husband and I work in a line of work that caters to the Japanese as well as the Koreans. My husband's company has to train these two country's representatives on the same timeline to do their tasks.

The state of New Jersey does not allow smoking in public buildings. The representatives of these two countries each smoke like chimneys.

When they all get out to their smoke breaks - individual as well as collective - my husband has observed that neither one of their country's men will voluntarily interact with the other. It's been the observation that they have a loathing for the other, even though they strive for the same objective, and at what they're trying to accomplish.

They're as racist against each other as the American people were from the North and the South in history.

Barbara

It may not make sense, but Asian pro pool has a long and pronounced history of excluding players on the basis of nationality alone. It has often been noted on this forum that in Asia's top, and most lucrative, nine ball tour, The San Miguel Tour, is not open to Americans. Some have offered the lame excuse that The San Miguel Tour was a qulaifying tour for the world championships, but the UPA always allowed everybody, regardless of nationality, to play in UPA events while the UPA was America's qualifying tour for the world championships.

We can hope against hope that this news proves false, but if it isn't, it's hardly shocking in the part of the world where exclusion from competition on the basis of natonality is far too common in pro pool.

 

[Wally in Cincy]

sjm,

My husband and I work in a line of work that caters to the Japanese as well as the Koreans. My husband's company has to train these two country's representatives on the same timeline to do their tasks.

The state of New Jersey does not allow smoking in public buildings. The representatives of these two countries each smoke like chimneys.

When they all get out to their smoke breaks - individual as well as collective - my husband has observed that neither one of their country's men will voluntarily interact with the other. It's been the observation that they have a loathing for the other, even though they strive for the same objective, and at what they're trying to accomplish.

They're as racist against their own area as the American people were from the North and the South!

Barbara

Interesting.

I think the situation with Ms. Kim was with the Taiwanese, not the Japanese

Barbara I hope you are doing well I don;t get online as much lately

 

[crosseyedjoe]

Interesting.

I think the situation with Ms. Kim was with the Taiwanese, not the Japanese

Barbara I hope you are doing well I don;t get online as much lately

Unfortunately, that is true with the other Eastern Asian nations.

Ever heard of some black people saying "he's not so black." Well, in Eartern Asia for some reason they have this "we are better Asain than the rest" mantra.

 

[arsenius]

sjm,

My husband and I work in a line of work that caters to the Japanese as well as the Koreans. My husband's company has to train these two country's representatives on the same timeline to do their tasks.

The state of New Jersey does not allow smoking in public buildings. The representatives of these two countries each smoke like chimneys.

When they all get out to their smoke breaks - individual as well as collective - my husband has observed that neither one of their country's men will voluntarily interact with the other. It's been the observation that they have a loathing for the other, even though they strive for the same objective, and at what they're trying to accomplish.

They're as racist against each other as the American people were from the North and the South in history.

Barbara

Japan occupied Korea for something like, 50 years before WWII. The Japanese were brutal to the Koreans. So it's no surprise that Koreans and Japanese hate each other. Only 7 years ago or so South Korea completed lifting a ban on importing things of cultural relevence to Japan. So things like movies and video games (probably books too) from Japan were not allowed. The S. Korean government also still occasionally issues mandates that words be changed. Because of the Japanese occupation the Koreans still use many Japanese words, even though a pure Korean words exists. So the government officially declares that these words are not to be used in textbooks, official documents, etc..

At least, this is my understanding from my Korean GF. She tells me she hates the Japanese all the time, and she's only 26. Her grandmother apparently speaks half Korean half Japanese because she grew up during the occupation.

 

[Wally in Cincy]

The Japanese were brutal to the Koreans. .

and to the Chinese also.

hope they get this sorted. Ga-Young seems like a very nice girl and a credit to the game. Wu seems like a good kid too.