{"id":1195948,"date":"2022-08-31T19:55:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/i-see-myself-as-a-ghanaian-not-a-korean-yaw-kokor-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T19:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:55:22","slug":"i-see-myself-as-a-ghanaian-not-a-korean-yaw-kokor-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/i-see-myself-as-a-ghanaian-not-a-korean-yaw-kokor-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"I see myself as a Ghanaian, not a Korean &#8211; Yaw Kokor reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/01c750e3516e403f98a263ba467aabcd\"\/>Born to a Korean father and\u00a0Ghanaian mother, Yaw Kokor has stated that he sees himself as a Ghanaian with no Korean trace because he never saw his late father and has no intention of finding his roots in Asia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with DJ Nyaami, Yaw Kokor, popularly called\u00a0\u2018Se Korea Se China,\u2019 stated that \u201cGhana is my motherland\u201d and will always root for the country to grow because this is his home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t been to Korea yet. I was born here, and I never saw my father, so Ghana is my home. I\u2019m going to promote Ghana. If Ghanaians won\u2019t,\u00a0I will, and I know someone will support me.<\/p>\n<p>Africa is our motherland. So I can\u2019t say I\u2019ll go to Korea to search for his roots. I met my mom, not my dad, and by the constitution, anyone is a Ghanaian by birth,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yaw Kokor, some Ghanaians make hateful comments about him, but \u201cI tell them that they don\u2019t like good things. That is what I tell them often.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Responding to what makes him a proud Ghanaian and why he has decided to leave the country for greener pastures like other citizens, Yaw revealed that Ghana has better resources to make the country better than it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who travel abroad do not respect the country because we have cocoa, gold, bauxite etc., so why can\u2019t we develop the country with that?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kantanka makes cars, but how many Ghanaians buy them? They would go in for accident cars shipped into the country instead. I\u2019m very proud to be called a Ghanaian,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Yaw Kokor is the first of five children. He is a Fante from the Central Region but is currently based in Obuasi. Yaw is a comic actor. He mentioned that acting and singing have always been his dream.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kindly watch the full video below;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Korean Who Speaks Twi; I See Myself As A Black Man, Not A Korean - Shares His Story\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nWBjWoUKMYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SVTVAfrica.com (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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