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South Korea wrongly introduced as North Korea at Olympics (www.bbc.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] eran_morad 48 points 4 months ago

Bruh.

[–] makyo 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s just a weird internet deja vu but didn’t something just like this happen in a recent Olympics?

[–] makyo 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this is what I was remembering: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-18993023

[–] DaMonsterKnees 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know what, good on you, mate, for doing that leg work. Cheers for that!

[–] makyo 3 points 4 months ago

I knew it was going to bother me until I got to the bottom of it

[–] ArmyTiger 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That seems like a really easy mistake to not make. Like, has North Korea ever been to the Olympics?

[–] Pirasp 22 points 4 months ago

Yes, they have a delegation there right now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yes. They're mentioned in the third sentence of the article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

~~Democratic People's~~ Republic of Korea