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Do we like Yuna Kim?

Our score: 7 out of 10. Decent record and real charity work, held back from higher because the search found nothing from her on LGBTQ+ people or the planet.

Yuna Kim is the South Korean skater who won Olympic gold at Vancouver in 2010 and silver at Sochi in 2014, and retired after that. For a generation of Korean kids she is the reason figure skating exists as a national obsession. Nothing recent has blown up around her, so this is a settled legacy rather than a fresh stoush.

On the harm test, the search came up clean but thin. In 2022 she criticised the decision to let Kamila Valieva compete at Beijing amid doping questions, and she copped a nasty comment war online for it, which is abuse aimed at her, not something she did. We found no statements from her about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants or climate, and no run of films or projects with people pushing harm. Silence is not a gold star, but it is not a mark against her either.

The real good stuff is the giving. After Sochi-era fame she became a UNICEF goodwill ambassador and in 2011 pledged her silver-medal prize money to children affected by Japan's earthquake. Korean outlets have reported further donations to disaster and health causes over the years, which is a consistent pattern rather than a one-off photo op.

So, would we support her? Yes. She passes on harm, passes on nice, and the only thing keeping her from the top of the scale is that we can't point to her using her platform for LGBTQ+ people or the planet. Fans can love her without wincing.