"So Small and Amazing": Baby Panda Shubao Makes Her First Wobbly Public Appearance

[Anchor]

Shubao, the younger sister of Fu Bao—the giant panda who captured the hearts of the entire nation—has made her very first public appearance. Crowds gathered from the early morning.

Reporter Yun Nara went to meet Shubao.

[Reporter]

Following her mother, Ai Bao, into the outdoor enclosure, baby panda Shubao peeks her head out.

Born last June, Shubao seemed a bit unaccustomed to the outside world at first and hesitated to step outside the doorway.

[Visitor: She's right by the door. By the door. Hey, baby, come over here.]

Soon, however, she was busy playing—walking alongside her mother, climbing up and down stone steps, and scrambling up a large tree.

Seemingly anxious, her mother placed Shubao back down beneath a wooden platform, but driven by curiosity about her new environment, Shubao slipped past her mother's gaze and headed back down to the ground.

Named Shubao, which means "a treasure as bright as the dawn," she is the fourth panda born in South Korea.

Weighing a mere 171 grams at birth, Shubao has grown rapidly, surpassing 9 kilograms in about five months.

Because she is still young and needs time to adapt to the outdoor environment, her first public showing today (October 30) lasted for just one hour starting at 10:00 AM. Despite the early hour, crowds flocked to see her.

Visitors ranged from children who traveled all the way from Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province,—

[Jung Joon-sang and Jung Yuha / Yeonggwang-gun, South Jeolla Province: We left at 5:00 AM from Yeonggwang to come see the pandas. She's cute, cute, and adorable.]

—to children reminiscing about Fu Bao, who left for China two years ago.

[Kim Hae-na and Taeha / Seoul: Fu Bao was a bit bigger, but Shubao is definitely a baby so she seems smaller. (She was so tiny that it was amazing.)]

Because Shubao's twin older sisters, Rui Bao and Hui Bao, are scheduled to return to China this coming December, all five members of the panda family can be seen together in South Korea until December 11, which marks their final public viewing day.

(Camera to Reporter: Kim Heung-ki | Video Editing: Lee Seung-hee)
※ Please note: This article was translated by AI and may contain errors.