Olympics organizers have “deeply apologized” to South Korea over a “human error” that saw its 143 athletes being wrongly introduced as North Korean at the opening ceremony.
Olympics organizers have “deeply apologized” to South Korea over a “human error” that saw its 143 athletes wrongly introduced as North Korean at the opening ceremony. The mishap occurred on Friday, when the South Korean athletes made their debut on a boat cruising down the River Seine. Both the French and English announcements falsely identified them as being from the “People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.” That’s the full name of North Korea.
“The problem was identified as a human error, for which the IOC is deeply sorry,” it added. The phone call followed a more immediate apology from the Olympics body, which was issued shortly after the blunder on its official Korean-language account on X. At a press conference on Saturday, IOC spokesperson Mark Adams called the incident “clearly deeply regrettable” and that the body “apologize wholeheartedly,” Reuters reported.
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