The South Korean group was exposed to the official name of North Korea as they cruised down the Seine River in the French capital:
Republique populaire democratique de Coree’ in French and ‘Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’ in English
In a post on its official Korean-language X account, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) expressed its deepest apologies for the blunder that happened when presenting the South Korean squad during the broadcast of the opening ceremony.
The cultural and technological superpower South Korea, which is officially still at war with the nuclear-armed and economically devastated North, was irritated by the mistake.
