A questionable Barack Obama Photoshop has been doing the rounds since Tuesday, courtesy of South Korean news agency Yonhap .
Perhaps taking inspiration from their media colleagues in the North , the news outlet published the image alongside a story about South Korean premier Park Geun-hye meeting President Obama.
The picture was later removed, but The Atlantic was quick to swoop on the amusing Park-Obama Photoshop, which purports to show the two world leaders shaking hands at the White House.
It’s a fairly risible effort, and calls to mind the infamous Photoshopping habits of North Korea’s KCNA news agency; earlier this year, the North’s state-run outlet pasted a few extra hoverboats into a scary-looking military image .
Apparently, the entire Korean peninsula sucks at this stuff.
The Atlantic notes that Yonhap may have formed its unconvincing ‘shop from an image of Park meeting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday.
What’s most peculiar about the Park-Obama Photoshop is that there was actually tons of genuine images of Park and Obama chumming it up at their White House encounter — some of which even featured the pair shaking hands .
But instead, Yonhap reached for the Photoshop, and we all know how that can end (least of all me ).
Pyongyang, you have some competition.
