“I need to laugh, I need to be happy, because without love you don’t get anything.' Son Heung-min (Sonny7) drills down on his essence speaking to alex_prewitt ahead of South Korea's return to the World Cup
Over the summer, before Tottenham Hotspur began its preseason tour through his native South Korea, star forward Son Heung-min briefly looked for a small welcome present to give to each of his teammates upon their arrival. But then, instead, he decided to go all out. For four straight days he feted them with designer sunglasses, custom T-shirts and other swag donated by his lineup of global sponsors, in addition to personally purchased items like ornately decorated sets of chopsticks and spoons.
Showing fellow Spurs players around Seoul and elsewhere this summer, however, he was pleasantly surprised by their eagerness to consume his culture—and not just in the literal sense when he treated the whole roster to Korean barbecue. Heung-min suffered a recent facial fracture but will still be leading South Korea at the World Cup.
“I just remember the streets [were] all red—red shirts, red lights, red fireworks,” Son says. “The country was just incredible. Can’t forget this amazing experience.” The immediate results were far from crappy, with Son striking for one of two extra-time goals to stun and eliminate defending-champion Germany in what Korean media dubbed the “Miracle of Kazan.
The rising popularity of Korea’s favorite soccer star has coincided with a broader wave of cultural exports that has swept out of a country the size of Indiana and washed over the planet in recent years, introducing countless people to the ways of K-pop and K-dramas, K-beauty products and kimchi. Still it is hard to think of another single native Korean who possesses greater global reach and celebrity. After all, seven members form the star-dusted musical sensation known as BTS.
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