Olympic organizers said they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea’s athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony of the games in Paris.
The boat carrying team South Korea makes its way down the Seine in Paris, France, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics , Friday, July 26, 2024. – Olympic Games organizers said they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea's athletes as North Korea during theAs the South Korean athletes waved their nation's flag on a boat floating down the Seine River Friday evening, they were announced in both French and English as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The South Korean Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism Vice Minister Jang Mi Ran 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. The Korean peninsula has been bitterly divided into South Korea and North Korea since the end of World War II in 1945.Associated Press writer Kim Hyung-jin in Seoul contributed reporting.
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