Mexican YouTuber faces backlash over Rising Sun flag in World Cup video

A Mexican YouTuber has come under fire for using footage of the Rising Sun flag in a video introducing the 48 countries competing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Seo Kyung-duk, a professor of liberal arts at Sungshin Women's University, on Tuesday criticized the YouTuber who runs a soccer-focused channel for using the flag that represented the Japanese Imperial Army. “The report came from a Korean resident in Mexico. The video has garnered more than 1.3 million views and 10,000 likes on YouTube,” th

By The Korea Herald