Sunday, December 31, 2017
Twitter shows 안중근s bloody hand emoji for Liberation Day 2017
Twitter shows 안중근s bloody hand emoji for Liberation Day 2017
During this week, any tweets containing certain hashtags related to Korean Liberation Day will trigger a special emoticon to display: the bloodied hand of extremely famous Korean independence activist An Jung-geun.
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| Twitter promotion of the "Sliced Ring Finger" symbol. Image: Twitter |
Heres that hand image up-close:
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Ahn cut off a portion of his own ring finger (the "??? ??") as part of the "signing" of an oath to assassinate a very high ranked official of the Japanese occupation government -- an oath that he kept on October 26, 1909. You can read more about it on Wikipedia.
The emoji will display between August 11~16, 2017. You can trigger it by using one of these hashtags:
- #???
(Liberation Day) - #??72??
(72nd Anniversary of Liberation) - #?????
(Department of Veterans Affairs) - #????
(Love of country) - #?????
(Independence activists) - #??????
(Long Live Korea!)
If you want to learn more about the contest held to design this special emoji, check the Twitter Korea blog.
Heres a photo of Ahn:
By Unknown - Japanese book "Japan-Korea Annexation and Korean Independence Movement" published by Roudoukeizai Sha., Public Domain, Link
So tweet your K-pride this week, and let your bloody finger fly.
Finally, you may remember Twitter also offered a special "fire chicken" emoji during Lunar New Year.
