This cultural-interpretive essay offers critical commentary on Koreanness, racial ideology, hegemonic racial power, and racialized cultural taste with the aim of interpreting the sport–music nexus by examining a case of the interface between music and sport: The authors focus on the case of the Olympic ice dance that the South Korean team performed for the Korean traditional folk song Arirang at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. The authors argue that music and sport can be understood as a semiological system that shapes non-Whites’ ideological belief system. In addition, this essay engages with a discussion of cultural classification that often racializes skaters of color as the aforementioned are informed by Orientalism.

这篇文化阐释性文章对韩国性，种族意识形态，霸权种族权力和种族化的文化品味进行了批判性评论，旨在通过考察音乐与体育之间的联系来解释体育与音乐的联系：代表韩国队在2018年平昌冬奥会上为韩国传统民歌Arirang表演的奥林匹克冰舞。作者认为，音乐和运动可以理解为塑造非白人思想信仰体系的符号系统。此外，本文还讨论了文化分类的讨论，这经常使有色滑冰者种族化，因为前述内容是东方主义所为。