And Hines ward is a well known cheep shot expert.

In Pittsburgh it was known that he was half-Korean since the time he broke into the league, and it was no big thing. In Korea nobody really cared until he became Super Bowl MVP . . . then, tellingly, he became “Korean.”

I first knew about Hines Ward as a half Korean was back in 1998 when he was drafted by Steelers from UGA. There was a Korean documentary (I am not sure about the name of the program.) who filmed Ward’s background. They showed him playing football and they showed him eating KalGukSu and kimchi at his mother’s house. His mother said that he was discriminated from both Black and Korean community in Atlanta as he was growing up. The documantary also showed his mother working menial labor job ever since her divorce from Ward’s father. It was very moving and emotional documentary. Since 1998, I have been following Hines Ward’s NFL career. I am glad to see that a Korean American is going to produce this movie than a Korean producer.

The movie's tentative title of "My Mother" portends either a problem or an opportunity.

If it is meant to compliment the movie, "My Father," then I see a problem. That movie portrayed almost everyone sympathetically, including the father executed for murder and to some extent, the memory of the grandmother who sent him for adoption. The only protagonists, as far as I could tell, were the racist and abusive GIs he had to work with while he was here in Korea.

However, if it is truly an account from Hines' mother's point of view and if the producer, James Kang is a Korean American, and has some creative control, then the movie may have some potential to appeal outside of Korea.

As CPT KIM suggests, I think only a Gyopo could properly tell this story. And, as Ms. Kim is still alive and we know she has spoken out before, she will be able to correct any bias an exploitative aspects of the movie.

Let's hope there will be more to the story than to reinforce the prevalent Korean theme about the strength of the Korean spirit to persevere against evil foreigners.

While Hines felt racism in school, Ms. Kim's own comments suggests that she was more stung by ostracism by others in the Korean American community for being a parent of a half African American son. She also spoke out more strongly about why it would have been much worse if she had to raise her son in Korea.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/20060…

Hell, The Metropolitan is half Korean and look what he's had to deal with.

It's funny how Ward only became "Korean" after the Super Bowl was won.

Why wasn't he a Korean when he was drafted and/or before?

Is he now a "pure blooded" Korean?

The whole thing is a farce on the South Korean side really. I mean what about the other mixed blood Koreans that have to live in Korea everyday? The ones who aren't stars.

What about them? This whole Hines Ward thing shows how uncool and pathetic the situation is for mixed blood people in Korea.