COOL OR COCKY?
Viral video of South Korean politician’s ‘no-look pass’ of wheelie suitcase to airport flunky divides the internet
The 65-year-old politician made an entrance to remember at Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport this week
A SOUTH Korean politician has become a viral sensation for this nonchalant pass of his suitcase to a waiting airport flunky.
Kim Moo-sung, the 65-year-old politician, made an entrance to remember at Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport arrivals lounge this week when he pushed his suitcase along the ground to a male assistant who was waiting for him.
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His move has been dubbed the "authoritarian no-look pass" by the internet after the video was posted on YouTube by South Korean news channel YTN News.
The name references the basketball move when a player looks in one direction but passes the ball to his teammate in another.
But the internet is not at all happy with the "authoritarian no-look pass", saying it is a symbol of "male entitlement".
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"This shows … the way he treats his subordinates! How does he act in private if he acts like this in an airport? This is the bare face of the Korean elite!" said one comment in Korean on Naver, Korea’s biggest web portal.
The video had received more than 175,000 views on YouTube at the time of writing.
Over on Reddit, in a discussion where the clip was titled "Korean Politician Swag", the video had gathered over 1700 comments.
"If by 'swag' you mean 'douche', then absolutely," one commenter wrote.
"You call this 'swag', but rather this is something you would see often by these 'big shot' men in Asia," another angry commenter wrote.
"Trust me, assistants and servants barely dare look at these men of higher status straight in the face they must bow downwards. Very arrogant and cocky, this is nothing knew to me and this definitely has nothing to do with swag."
- A version of this article originally appeared on .
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