Blame the WBF for not insisting on putting the neutral umpires in ALL tournaments so there won't be question about the home advantages indeed such arrangement must be stipulated as an integral part of WBF tourney regulation!! It's a pity that such AWESOME MATCH OF BOTH PAIRS is tarnished by such a controversy!!! (well, still need to watch again the replay in better quality video than the current streaming to be 100% sure!!)
Well, China already has this bad image with bad umpire n line judges, and maybe some other countries. I'm surprised they didn't change and of course surprise again if someone of us [BCers] defend that bad habit.
i feel pity for the koreans. yesterday when shin baek cheol query the call by the linesman, the umpire not even look at him.
Korean umpires? Just reminded me that they would much better cheater job than the Chinese, esp. On their own home soil...
We know that..the point here is that foreigner umpire was not used at all in final...Please note and dont change the different meaning. In Korean Open, at least there are more international umpires and KOR does have Patriotic line judges...