Hong Kong uses Traditional Chinese and the Mainland Simplified Chinese.
Pakho's Facebook post
For those who don't know, Hong Kong and Taiwan use Traditional Chinese while the Mainland uses Simplified Chinese. Pakho wrote his Facebook post in Simplified Chinese while his Instagram post, which had the same content, was written in Traditional Chinese."Someone's target market is China, of course he doesn't care about Hong Kong," scoffed one such netizen.Interestingly, both Facebook and Instagram are banned in the Mainland.
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