‘Mourning run’ or clout chase? South Korea divided over runner’s death tributes
South Korean social media posts displaying users’ running records to honour a local woman who died at a Seoul marathon have raised debate over the appropriateness of the gesture for mourning. Yoo Ji-won, a 25-year-old graduate student at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology, collapsed just 500 metres (1,600 feet) from the finish line of the 2026 Seoul Race half-marathon on October…
We haven't written up this one. South China Morning Post has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
