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SK forced to remove banners

South Korea’s Olympic committee said it removed banners at the Olympic athletes’ village in Tokyo that referred to a 16th-century war between Korea and Japan after the International Olympic Committee ruled they were provocative.

The South Koreans said on Saturday they received a promise from the IOC that the displaying of the Japanese “rising sun” flag will be banned at stadiums and other venues. The flag, portraying a red sun with 16 rays extending outward, is resented by many people in South Korea and other parts of Asia who see it as a symbol of Japan’s wartime past.

The South Korean banners, which drew protests from Japanese far-right groups, had been hung at the balconies of South Korean athletes’ rooms and collectively spelled out a message that read: “I still have the support of 50 million Korean people.”

South Korea in 2019 had asked the IOC to ban the rising sun flag at the Olympics, comparing it to the Nazi swastika.




 

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