Well, that's one way to spark an international incident.
PARIS — Olympic Games organizers said they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea ’s athletes as North Korea during theAs the South Korea n athletes waved their nation’s flag on a boat floating down the Seine River on Friday evening, they were announced in both French and English as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. South Korea is the Republic of Korea.
The statement said South Korea’s Olympic committee separately asked the organizers of the Paris Games to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents.
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