Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is making the rounds on social media after a video emerged of him greeting a voter in Chinese, who quickly corrected him by saying: “No, I’m Korean.”

According to Sky News Australia, the moment occurred while he was campaigning in Sydney.

.@ScottMorrisonMP has had his first street walk of his campaign in the inner west Sydney suburb of Strathfield, greeting locals and visiting a restaurant.@annelisenews: There was a bit of confusion about what kind of restaurant he was in.



MORE: https://t.co/ykweMevBOK #auspol pic.twitter.com/BZcxWBTVuz — Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) April 13, 2019

Morrison had reportedly been mingling with locals in the area and visiting a restaurant in Strathfield, which is a suburb in Sydney, when the gaffe took place.

In a video of an exchange he shared with one local woman outside the restaurant, Morrison said: “Hello, how are you? Ni hao, how are you?” “Ni hao” is Chinese for “hello” in English.

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“No, no, no, I’m Korean,” the woman replied.

He appeared to take a brief pause during the exchange, which occurred amid a crowd of reporters, before proceeding to greet the next person.

The exchange, which took place on Saturday, has since garnered a wave of backlash on social media from many who found the gaffe to be racially offensive.

According to the Guardian, the prime minister later made light of the moment and has since said he was “no Asian languages expert, so I’m gonna say g’day to everybody."