Park Chan-ho said this in an interview with the San Diego local magazine’San Diego Union-Tribune’ on the 24th (Korean time).
Park Chan-ho, who joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1994, tried to push the back of a colleague who was next to him after completing his first training and soaping the shower.
In Korea, pushing each other’s backs together was a way to share affection, so Park Chan-ho tried to do so in the United States, but it was the United States. You may be shocked by rubbing the skin between men. Park Chan-ho laughed, advising Kim Ha-sung not to push his colleagues, etc.
The reason Park Chan-ho brought up such a story is from the judgment that it is more important than anything else to tell the grievances of cultural differences rather than the technical aspect.
I also recalled my experience with food. Park Chan-ho said, “Every time I ate Korean food, they said bad things. I had more energy to eat kimchi than to eat a large chunk of steak, but I couldn’t eat it on the pitch. They just hated the smell.”
But “a lot has changed now. Americans understand Asian culture better.”
In a video interview on this day, Kim Ha-sung expressed his gratitude, saying that Park Chan-ho gave a lot of advice. Park Chan-ho, who played for San Diego from 2005 to 2006, is a special advisor to San Diego through a relationship with San Diego owner Peter O’Malley, who has been the owner of the Dodgers since 2019.
Park Chan-ho said, “I will help Ha-Sung Kim adapt and learn quickly. You can do it alone inside the stadium, but outside the stadium, you need someone to help you like a family.”
Park Tae-geun, Dong-A.com reporter [email protected]
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