Spelling disaster: Yonhap miscalls Trump's security adviser John Bolton's name 'Michael Bolton'
Captured from the Yonhap News Agency website
By Park Si-soo
South Korea's news agency Yonhap has become an online laughing stock after it misspelled White House national security adviser John Bolton's name as American rock balladeer “Michael Bolton” in an English article published Thursday.
The embarrassing mistake was found in the lead sentence of the story published at 2:04 p.m. under the headline “Moon's top security adviser to hold talks with U.S. counterpart on N. Korea trip.”
It was corrected soon after, but too late to avoid nimble readers who later shared it on social media.
A foreign reader ridiculed the mistake, saying “How Am I Supposed to Live Without Nukes,” a parody of Michael Bolton's hit song “How am I Supposed to Live Without You.”
Several Korean readers wrote: “Shame is mine.”
White House national security adviser John Bolton, left, and American rock balladeer Michael Bolton.