Olympic organizers said they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea’s athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony of the Paris Games.
“We deeply apologize for the mistake that occurred when introducing the Korean team during the opening ceremony broadcast,” the IOC said in a post on X in Korean.Olympic Games organizers said they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea's athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony inon Friday evening, they were announced in both French and English as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. South Korea is the Republic of Korea.
Jang Mi Ran, the second vice minister of South Korea’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Ministry, requested a meeting with IOC President Thomas Bach over the incident, the ministry said in a statement Saturday. It said the ministry also asked South Korea’s Foreign Ministry to file “a strong government-level complaint” with the French government.
The statement said South Korea’s Olympic committee separately asked the organizers of the Paris Games to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents."An operational mistake was made. We can only apologize, in an evening of so many moving parts, that this mistake was made,” Adams said in response to a question from a South Korean journalist during a news conference.
Paris held viewing parties around the city so that people who could not make it to the Opening Ceremony could still enjoy the festivities. But at one party, long lines had attendees turning to their phone instead. The Korean peninsula has been bitterly divided into South Korea and North Korea since the end of World War II in 1945.2024 Paris Olympics
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