Koshien's 'controversial' Korean school song advanced to the final of Koshien for the first time since the foundation of International Kyoto High School...a historic challenge to win the championship
Aug 21, 2024
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Kyoto International High School won 7-3 in the first round, 4-0 in the second round, and 4-0 in the third round. In the quarterfinals, he beat Nara Prefecture's representative Zibengakuengo 4-0 to advance to the semifinals for the first time in three years since 2021.
Kyoto International High School joined the Japanese High School Baseball Federation in 1999. He advanced to the Koshien finals for the first time in the summer of 2021 and reached the semifinals. At that time, Kyoto International High School lost 1-3 to Zibengakuen High School, failing to advance to the finals. Kyoto International High School perfectly avenged its pain three years ago in the quarterfinals of this tournament.
In the summer of 2022, Koshien lost the first game and failed to advance to the finals last year.
Kyoto International High School's Korean school song that resonated at Koshien Stadium was also the center of the controversy.
Players sing a school song that begins with the Korean word "Yamato land is holy, our ancestors' old dreams across East Sea"." In Koshien, the school song of the participating school will be played, and NHK, a Japanese broadcaster, will broadcast almost the entire game. On this day, Kyoto International High School's Korean school song was broadcast throughout Japan through NHK.
The problem is that on the 19th, when NHK succeeded in advancing to the semifinals, it broadcasted the proper noun 'East Sea' as a Japanese subtitle, and the lyrics 'Korea's academy' were also sent out differently from the original meaning as 'Korea-Japan academy'.
It is interpreted as a measure conscious of the controversy that Japanese far-right forces continue to post anti-Korean posts through the Internet and social network services whenever Korean school songs are broadcast at the most prestigious Koshien competition.
Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women's University, sent an e-mail to NHK in protest, pointing out that `It is NHK's obvious fault to mark the famous noun 'Donghae' as 'Sea of the East.'"
The summer Koshien began in 1915 and marked the 106th anniversary this year. Koshien is Japan's representative high school baseball tournament.
This year, out of 3,715 schools across Japan, 49 schools that qualified through regional preliminary rounds made it to the finals. Hanshin Koshien Stadium celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.
International Kyoto High School, which advanced to the final of its first Koshien. What subtitles will the school song that will be sung in Korean after writing the history of winning the exam. In many ways, it is an international Kyoto high school that is raising the pride of Korean roots at the center of controversy.
hschung@sportschosun.com
