Blarfroer
2天前
Yes, we almost never use the terms RoK and DPRK, it's always South Korea and North Korea. So a random person on the street getting them wrong would be sort of understandable. But if you're commenting the opening ceremony of the Olympics, you need to put in a little bit of effort to get stuff right. I'm honestly baffled how they could get it wrong considering the team was literally carrying a huge banner with the correct name on it.
Holoinfinity
2天前
But it's funny how the South Koreans themselves don't even realize that DPRK referred to North Korea. To anyone else, they could've also easily mistook it for South Korea since it has the word "democratic" in it
Benway
2天前
As a german growing up in west germany I can perfectly understand that south korean people are upset. The east, the socialists also called themselves 'democrats', German Democratic Republic, GDR. Seems like an established pattern.