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A big mistake has happened during the opening ceremony of the Olympics held in the French capital Paris on Friday. During the parade of nations in the ceremony, the South Korean team was addressed as North Korea. The people of South Korea are very angry about this mistake in the Olympics, after which the Olympic Committee has formally apologized.
This stirred up controversy
During the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, the 6-kilometer parade began from the Austerlitz Bridge on the Seine River. When the South Korean team joined the parade on a magnificent boat, South Korea was called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in both French and English. Let us tell you that this is the official name of North Korea.
South Korea expressed its displeasure and objected to this incident. The Olympic Committee later expressed regret over the incident and apologized and assured that such an incident would not happen in the future.
IOC chief spoke to South Korean President
The International Olympic Committee said in a social media post that it made a mistake while introducing the South Korean team during the opening ceremony, for which we sincerely apologize. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach spoke to South Korean President Eun Suk Yeol by telephone and apologized personally. The South Korean President told Bach that the people of his country are deeply shocked and embarrassed by this incident.
Olympic committee spokesman Mark Adams described the error as “obviously regrettable” and said a mistake had been made. “We can only apologise that we made a mistake.” South Korea's sports ministry has requested the foreign ministry to make an official complaint to the French government.