I do agree that countries with less Olympic athletes or chance to win a medal will celebrate an athlete who won one more than other countries that win medals more often but this takes place in Korea which did not just get one gold medal in the last Olympics games so it's still exaggerated and massive dick riding to make the MC look cooler/stronger whatever
(second comment cuz idk if my og comment got deleted or posted)
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Girl this is not IRL. In The setting of this mahwa sure jaekyoung won gold once but they barely managed to win bronze at the next Olympics (jaekyoung was injured) but yeah the whole premise of the story is that they (the swimming federation) only got funding for athletes bc jiheon (the uke) won a championship. so they put in place a scholarship to get athletes to train abroad bc Korea was SO bad. In their world jeakyoung was the only one that managed to win a gold in the Olympics. and he did not even want to participate in the next Olympics, but the federation got scared bc he was basically the only reason they were still getting funding (in the novel federations get funding based on the athlete's performance) so yeah when you're the only guy in Korea that got a gold olympic medal, won the pan-pacific, asian games and basically won the national team's bronze medal and win gold in five different individual events four years later at the next Olympic, yeah his dick is gonna be ridden alright.
actually I've seen people say the same for idols doing ads, if not worse. and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think athletes in Korea are just as popular as idols to the point that many have been invited to TV shows. not to mention, Jaekyoung is REALLY handsome. you know how lookism Korean people can be.
"let's take and watch this ad" "my eyes feel refreshed" sry but the constant ml dick riding is crazy ik it's a lot in manwhas but for some reason it feels like its even more here