Paris 2024 IOC apologises for introducing South Korean athletes as North Korean

The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) has expressed remorse for an error throughout the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics, the place South Korean athletes had been incorrectly launched as being from North Korea.

Because the South Korean delegation sailed down the Seine River in Paris, they had been mistakenly launched utilizing the official title for North Korea: “Republique populaire democratique de Coree” in French and “Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea” in English.

“We deeply apologize for the error that occurred when introducing the South Korean group throughout the broadcast of the opening ceremony,” the IOC acknowledged on its official Korean-language X account.

The error sparked sturdy reactions in South Korea, a big cultural and technological hub that is still technically at battle with the nuclear-armed and impoverished North.

South Korea’s sports activities ministry expressed “remorse” over the incident, stating, “We categorical remorse over the announcement throughout the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place the South Korean delegation was launched because the North Korean group.”

Jang Mi-ran, South Korea’s second vice sports activities minister and a 2008 Olympic weightlifting champion, has requested a gathering with IOC President Thomas Bach to debate the problem.

The South Korean international ministry contacted the French embassy in Seoul, which expressed remorse over what it termed an “incomprehensible mistake.”

South Korea’s Nationwide Olympic Committee additionally plans to fulfill with the Paris Olympics Organizing Committee and the IOC to voice their protest, request measures to stop a recurrence and ship an official letter of protest from the top of its delegation, in keeping with the sports activities ministry.

North Korea was appropriately launched with the nation’s official title throughout the ceremony.

Relations between the 2 Koreas are at the moment at a low level, with North Korea strengthening navy ties with Russia and sending propaganda balloons to the South.

In response, South Korea’s navy has been broadcasting Okay-pop and anti-regime messages from border loudspeakers and lately resumed live-fire drills close to the demilitarized zone that divides the Korean peninsula.