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Gamba Osaka Wins ACL2 as Ronaldo Skips the Ceremony, While Samsung's Chairman Apologizes to Korea — Japan's Threads Pile On
Two Korea-adjacent stories hit Japan's reaction circuit at the same moment: Gamba Osaka's ACL2 trophy win over Cristiano Ronaldo's Al-Nassr (with Ronaldo seemingly walking off the ceremony), and Samsung chairman Lee Jae-yong publicly apologizing to South Koreans the moment he got back from a Japan business trip. Japanese commenters used both as ammunition in the long-running J-K rivalry meta — though Korean SNS reactions were focused more on Ronaldo's manners and Samsung's labor crisis.