Klinsmann is also criticized by the German media “Working from home as there are no flights from LA to Pyongyang.”
South Korea coach Jurgen Klinsmann is looking at the pitch during the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Qatar Asian Cup semifinal match between Jordan and Korea held at Al Rayyan Ahmed bin Ali Stadium in Qatar on the 6th (local time).
Even from the perspective of the German media, director Jürgen Klinsmann’s insincere work attitude was incomprehensible.
German media outlet TASS reported on the 21st (Korean time) that “Director Klinsmann worked from home because there were too few flights from LA to Pyongyang.”
Not only is the content itself unconvincing, but it is quite absurd that when he mentions his time as the coach of the Korean national soccer team, he mentions Pyongyang, North Korea, rather than Seoul.
This is not an actual response from Director Klinsmann, but a satire of ‘TASS’ that adopts the interview format.
Through this satire, ‘TAS’ pointed out that Director Klinsmann worked from home for ridiculous reasons and was criticized in Korea.
In the ‘fake’ interview, the questioner asked, “Pyongyang? When he pointed out that “Pyongyang is in North Korea, and as you know, North and South Korea are divided,” Director Klinsmann said, “As a German, I know very well about a divided country. But that alone cannot be the reason. It contained the sophistry that “it could be divided into North and South or East and West.”
Also, when asked if he had spoken on the phone with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un, he said, “Prime Minister Merkel came to the locker room during the 2006 World Cup, but Kim Jong-un did not come. “Now I understand why you didn’t come,” followed the absurd answer.
All of this is not an actual interview, and this can be read as a mockery of the interview in question where Coach Klinsmann previously stated, “I didn’t want to work at Paju NFC because it was too close to the ‘kingdom of darkness’ North Korea,” and working from home. The media in Germany, Klinsmann’s home country, also indirectly criticized the fact that there were problems with his actions and remarks during his time with the Korean national team. 사설토토
