Entertainment idol and global luxury brand ambassador Jackson Wang has been lavished with online praise after he protected a baby during a chaotic event in Malaysia.
The 30-year-old Hong Kong-born singer and rapper has built a reputation for being kind and thoughtful.
At 17, Wang became a K-pop trainee with JYP Entertainment in South Korea. He debuted in 2014 as a member of the boy band Got7.
In 2017, he started releasing solo material and began attending more mainland variety shows as his fame in China grew, it was around this time he began earning respect for his gentlemanly conduct.
He has since amassed 31 million followers on Weibo.
On July 24, Wang attended the opening of a Louis Vuitton store in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he was welcomed by fans waiting at the entrance.
A video posted on Xiaohongshu shot inside the shop shows a woman holding a baby in the crowd who wants to take a photo with him.
While Wang took selfies with other people, the baby’s head brushed against his arm.
He noticed the child and immediately used his arm to shield the woman, protecting the baby from over enthusiastic fans.
As the woman tried to squeeze out of the crowd after taking the photo, Wang anxiously told fans and staff: “Be careful of the baby! Be careful!”
The person who posted the video praised Wang’s kindness, and said: “Details reveal a person’s character.”
One online observer said: “When Jackson saw the mother wanting him to hold her baby’s hand, he didn’t immediately do so. Instead, he touched the baby from a distance, probably worrying about potential germs.”
“He looked more concerned about the baby’s safety than the mother,” said another.
At the same event, Wang helped a woman in high heels down the stairs, and she was so excited that she kept filming him with her phone, paying no attention to her steps.
Earlier on a mainland variety show, the idol gave his bag to a woman celebrity wearing a short skirt so she could protect her modesty.
Whe he was younger, Wang became a Youth-Olympic level sabre fencer and won Asian Junior and Cadet Fencing Championships.
He is the son of Chinese fencer Wang Ruiji, who competed in two summer Olympics, and a Shanghai-born world champion gymnast Sophia Chow.
Growing up and being educated in Hong Kong, Wang has always been proud of his Chinese roots.
In January last year, he delivered a seven-minute patriotic speech during a concert in London in which he publicly denounced anti-China media coverage as “propaganda bullsxxx” to an audience of thousands.
“If you travel to China one time, you’ll feel like this is a dope place,” he told the crowd.
When asked if “he was a Hongkonger” during a South Korean variety show, Wang simply answered: “I’m Chinese”.
