Japanese athletes have long been shunned in South Korea. This radio producer is leading a campaign to make an exception for Dodger superstar Shohei Ohtani.
When Lee Jae-ik started on his path to Shohei Ohtani superfandom, his wife thought he was having a midlife crisis. Maybe it was that her husband, a 48-year-old radio producer and on-air host at one of South Korea’s biggest broadcasters, had liquidated hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks to turn his closet into a shrine to the Japanese baseball phenom.
When he realized Ohtani’s day-to-day vehicle was a Porsche Cayenne, he bought one of those too. Then he started taking the bus to work — where he remained a producer and host of a music program — so he could watch Ohtani videos on his phone during his commute.
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