Paris Olympics 2024 | South Korea Wrongly Introduced As North Korea At Paris Olympics 2024 | N18G

The International Olympic Committee apologised Saturday for a gaffe during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in which South Korean athletes were incorrectly introduced as North Korean. As the South Korean delegation sailed down the Seine river in the French capital, they were introduced with the official name for North Korea: "Republique populaire democratique de Coree" in French, then "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" in English. "We deeply apologise for the mistake that occurred when introducing the South Korean team during the broadcast of the opening ceremony," the IOC said in a post on its official Korean-language X account.

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Source: AP and Reuters

[mindychoga]

Not just this, the opening ceremony that they claim focused on diversity - didn't have any Asians. Did you notice that?

[TyraCruz]

Let's call France, "the former colony of Germany" next time.

[mashitta]

the worst olympic opening ceremony i’ve ever seen

[alfredoroman]

That opening ceremony was a total disaster and FULL of disrespectful “art” expressions.

[Lee.Hsien-Yung]

South Korea's official name is the Republic of Korea and North Korea's official name is DPRK. It's really embarrassing that the organizers couldn't tell the difference

[CC-eynj]

Shame. But i dont expect too much on france anyways.

[UHHlastpilot]

Korean people are even more upset since france has infamous of racism toward asian already. I heard the IOC apologized but this anger will not be disappeared for long time

[bangawo]

How would the French feel if they introduced themselves as Spain? They must have felt a great sense of insult. Didn't they have a rehearsal? They made an insult to the entire Korean people that will be unforgettable even after many years have passed. Does France hate Korea the country of freedom ? Who is the announcers who twice introduced North Korea, a country that has no basic human rights, such as a closed hereditary power succession one person dictatorship, a country that slaves its people, No freedom of press, publication, No freedom of travel, No freedom of residence, No freedom to be friends with foreigners and No freedom of listening to foreign broadcasts ? He seems to like communist North Korea.
At the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, the North Korean team demanded an apology for misintroducing North Korea, so they(North Korea team delegation got an apology from the prime minister of UK.
President Macron made the mistake of introducing South Korea as North Korea at the Paris Olympics this time, and unless he apologizes, the anger of the Korean people will not be subdued forever. Without Macron's apology, it will immediately affect the Korean president. Currently in Korea, the opposition party holds more than a majority in the parliament in April election, and if he(Korea President) fails to get an apology this time, he will likely pull the trigger to give rise to the impeachment.

[SeoulMan]

Shame on the organizers and announcers.

[pinkapplebree]

They don’t even know the difference between Republic of Korea and North Korea lol😂 Do they even watch news?

[jk-ycme]

The English would never make this kind of ignorant mistake. Shouldve been london 2024 olypics instead of this amateur french operation

[heredukroman]

Exactly like Biden introducing Zelensky as Putin. What on earth…

[은평구냥아치]

프랑스를 비롯해서 유럽국가들은 간혹 한국을 비롯해서 아시아 국가들에게 인종차별 국가라고 하지만
정작 본인들의 국가에서 동양인에게 차별하는건 당연시 합니다. 프랑스는 스스로 자유 평등 박애의 국가라고 하면서 실제론 차별을 아무렇지 않게 하며
속좁은 애같은 짓을 하죠 당신들은 아시아인들이 경제발전하고 뒤따라잡으려고 하니까 경계하고 질투하는건가요?

[lizlee]

I am South Korean. I was quite upset as they called us as NorthKorea. I wish there would be no rudeness such as this situation.

[구독안하면년내로탈]

This is an insult to the French soldier who fought for the Republic of Korea during the Korean War

[menagerie]

Imagine Ukraine at the Olympics and France introduced them as Team Russia 😅😅

[loic]

En tant que français, je trouve que cette « erreur » est proprement inadmissible pour une cérémonie à 120 millions d'euros : était-il si difficile d'avoir une fiche sur laquelle le nom des pays était correctement orthographié ?

C'est vraiment lamentable et inexcusable au regard des moyens déployés.

Mes excuses aux Coréens et à la République de Corée. J'invite cependant nos amis coréens à ne pas tirer de conclusions hâtives sur un supposé racisme anti-coréen ou anti-asiatique que cette erreur démontrerait : il existe du racisme en France, comme dans tous les pays, mais la Corée et son peuple ont très bonne réputation.

[limesoda]

That was totally purposeful or ignorant. So offensive to South Koreans.

[Cat_Saves_the_World]

The war between Northkorea and Southkorea is NOT over, so this is like introducing Ukraine as Russia

[chesterliew]

Seriously, with a world event like Olympic one would expect the opening ceremony to be flawless. This is just too much mistake and so disrespectful