One of the aspirants in the South Korean presidential race who also is frontrunner has apologised after sparking a public uproar for jokingly likening the skin colour of a Nigerian student in South Korea to coal.

Kim Moo-sung, the leader of the country’s ruling conservative Saenuri Party and an aspirant in December 2017 elections, issued the apology following the series of public criticism over the comment he made

“I failed to realise that showing friendliness this way could hurt someone’s feelings,” Kim wrote on his Facebook page on Friday.

“I am really sorry and there is no excuse. I sincerely apologise from the bottom of my heart.”

He made the dry joke while delivering coal briquettes to the needy in Seoul alongside a group of foreign exchange students earlier on Friday.

The event was part of a charity programme which drew around 40 students from 27 countries as well as 50 young members of the Saenuri Party.

“Your face colour is the same as the colour of briquettes’ (A briquette (or briquet) is a compressed block of coal dust or other combustible biomass material such as charcoal, sawdust, wood chips, peat, or paper used for fuel and kindling to start a fire colour,”), the 64-year-old said to a Nigerian student while laughing.

The Nigerian student, said he did not take offence.

“I don’t give any special meaning to it,” Adekunie later told local news outlet Focus News. “He said it jokingly. He was laughing.”

“Personally I’m a black man… It’s nothing that I am ashamed of.”

Asked whether he thought Kim should apologise to him, he replied in Korean: “Guenchanayo [No problem]”.

The 26-year-old student is attending a local university on a South Korean government scholarship.

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Like Kim Moo-Sung like Donald trump bunch of bas.tard pig.

Do koreans know how the shape of their faces look like

Koreans evolved from pigs.
I'm only joking.
I will apologize later, please.