Olympisches Komitee ruft südkoreanischen Präsidenten an, nachdem es in einer Zeremonie Nordkorea als Land bezeichnet hat

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/28/olympic-committee-calls-south-korean-president-apologise/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    Thomas Bach, the president of International Olympic Committee (IOC), has apologised to [South Korea](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/south-korea/)’s president on the phone after his country’s athletes were identified as North Korean in the [Paris Games](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/07/28/paris-2024-day-2-live-latest-updates-olympics/)’ opening ceremony.

    As millions of spectators around the world watched the South Koreans float down a river in a barge and wave their flag, an audio broadcast said they were from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. That is the official name of [North Korea](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/north-korea/) and the South’s arch-enemy.

    South Korea, or the Republic of Korea, reacted angrily. The sports ministry demanded a meeting with International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, and urged the foreign ministry to file “a strong government-level complaint” with the French government.

    Mr Bach called president Yoon Suk Yeol and “apologised sincerely for the mistake in the audio broadcast”, according to a statement posted on the IOC’s website on Sunday.

    **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/28/olympic-committee-calls-south-korean-president-apologise/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/28/olympic-committee-calls-south-korean-president-apologise/)

  4. “honest mistake. send us and the atheletes few cases of your wine”

  5. I guess this sort of thing is inevitable when you don’t send members of the IOC a big enough “donation”.

  6. >“The problem was identified as a human error, for which the IOC is deeply sorry,” the statement said.

    no shit lol

  7. There was a real lack of attention to detail in the opening ceremony.

    This is the kind of thing an announcer should have drilled on, over and over so they don’t do this exact thing.

    The Olympic flag going up the right way. No rehearsal included the dude hooking the flag up checking it’s the right way up???

    Amateur hour

  12. Olympic committee: Hello? Is this the Democratic Republic… oh… my… not again…

  15. How many more opps moments do you need before concluding that France just half-assed this whole thing?

  18. If this happened at an Olympics in the US, all the Europeans would be like “hee hee, ho ho, Americans are so dumb they don’t even know where South Korea is on a map.”

  19. I wished I wasn’t boycotting the Olympics over the insulting ‘’last supper’’ they did- because this sounds to be a train wreck.

  20. $10 gift card is a way to settle the issue. Crowdstrike gave us the universal solution.

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