The internet giveth and it taketh away. A week ago, former national snowboarder and CrossFit athlete Woo Jin-yong was the talk of the town when he clinched victory in Netflix's game show Physical: 100. Netizens bemoaned how he was 'literally invisible' with minimal screen time and deserved more appreciation as the winner. Yesterday (Feb 28), runner-up Jung Hae-min threw a...
In an interview with South Korean media, professional cyclist Hae-min alleged that the final match had to be stopped twice — once when Jin-yong claimed a technical problem with his equipment and again when the production team claimed the audio recording was unusable.
"Put down the fake honour and return the trophy and honour to the real winner," one comment read on a recent Instagram post of Jin-yong with his Physical: 100 teammates.Another comment read: "If the article [interviewing Hae-min] is true, I don't think I'd be able to use Instagram because of how embarrassed I'd be... You're shameless. Please explain."
He has since made the video private after receiving backlash, explaining his rationale in a follow-up video and on Instagram yesterday."I did a video with Woo Jin-yong a while ago, and I know that there are people who are not in a good mood after watching it because of the issue with the current Physical: 100 winner," he wrote on Instagram.
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