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  • 2021-08-23 (xsd:date)
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  • The original photo shows South Korea's president holding the South Korean flag (en)
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  • An image has been shared repeatedly in multiple Facebook posts that purports to show South Korean President Moon Jae-in holding the Japanese national flag and wearing a Japanese anime T-shirt at a public event. The image, however, has been doctored. The original photo, taken during a marathon event in 2015, shows Moon holding the South Korean national flag and wearing a T-shirt with a different design. The image was shared here on Facebook on August 16, 2021. The post's Korean-language caption translates to English as: Wow. Japanese [animation] character T-shirts and Japanese flags??? Screenshot of the misleading claim on Facebook. Captured August 20, 2021. The image appears to show former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon (left), South Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo's former President Lee Jong-seung (middle) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (right) holding Japanese national flags and wearing Japanese anime T-shirts. The Korean-language text embedded above the image reads, Bow-legs' [a slur referring to Moon] history is more ridiculous the deeper you dig into it. Identical images were also shared on Facebook here , here , here and here alongside a similar claim. Comments on the posts suggested several users appeared to believe the image was genuine. What!!!! Pro-Japanese [expletive]!!!!, wrote one user. Why were they walking around like that then?~~~Crazy folks, wrote another. The image, however, has been doctored. A keyword search on South Korea's largest search engine Naver found corresponding photos of a marathon event published on Moon's official Naver Blog. The post, uploaded on August 15, 2015, includes about a dozen images showing Moon, Park and Lee at the same event, named as the Namsan Turtle Marathon. A caption accompanying the photos says the event was held on August 15, 2015 in Seoul's Namsan Baekbeom Square Park . Further keyword searches found the original photo was published on August 17, 2015. It was shared on a forum operated by Moon’s supporters on Daum Cafe , a popular social media platform in South Korea. The post is titled: 2015.08.15 (Chairman Moon Jae-in) Namsan 'Turtle Marathon'. The original photo can be seen below: Screenshot of the original photo posted on a Daum Cafe page on August 17, 2015. Captured August 20, 2021. In the original photo, the trio can be seen holding South Korean flags and wearing T-shirts that read: 451th Hankook Ilbo Turtle Marathon. Below is a screenshot comparison of the doctored image (L) and the original image posted on Daum Cafe (R): Screenshot comparison of the doctored image (L) and original image posted on Daum Cafe (R) Moon's appearance at the event is corroborated by a photo published on August 16, 2015, by event hosts Hankook Ilbo, a South Korean news agency. The event was also documented in a YouTube video posted on August 17, 2015, by South Korea's ruling Democratic Party. (en)
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