日経が金姸兒を応援か - Yu-Na Kim is Nikkei’s Favorite?

バンクーバー冬季五輪開催の前日、日経新聞には試合日程を一覧できるページが特別に組まれていた。そこには4人の選手の顔写真があって、当然日本で特に注目度の高い選手を並べたと言うことだと予想する。それが上村愛子・織田信成・高木美帆、そしてもう一人はなぜかキム・ヨナなのだ。浅田でも安藤でもないこの遠謀深慮は何だろう、もしや編集長がファンなのか、などとその編集スタンスに興味が残った。


On the day before the Winter Olympics started in Vancouver, Nikkei Newspaper had a special page to cover the game schedule and they placed 4 photos of athletes. One could easily guess that they were the most talked-about symbolic characters in Japan. Actually, they were Aiko Uemura (Moguls), Nobunari Oda (Figure Skating), Miho Takagi (Speed Skating), and the other was Yu-Na Kim of Korea. Pushing Mao Asada or Miki Ando aside, what would be this deliberation? Could it hint the favoritism of the Chief Editor? I was very curious about the basic stance of their editorial.