confused the Korean and Japanese flags? A French TV station caused a lot of onlookers and dissatisfaction on social media for broadcasting an incorrect picture of the South Korean flag.
According to Yonhap News Agency's report on January 2, French LCI TV station broadcast a "South Korean flag" picture that was similar to the Japanese flag in a news program on the afternoon of December 31, local time.
French LCI TV station broadcast an incorrect picture of the Korean flag in a news program on December 31. Source: French LCI TV station YouTube channel
The Korean flag is also known as the "Taegeuk flag". The middle part is a Taegeuk circle composed of red and blue. Inside the circle, there are two curved fish-shaped vessels, the upper part is red and the lower part is blue. Yonhap News Agency noticed that in the French media's program that day, the middle part of the "South Korean flag" displayed on the screen behind the anchor looked very much like the Japanese flag, with a prominent red circle, and the black four hexagrams patterns in the four corners were not there. An error occurred.
Japanese flag and South Korean flag data map
Yonhap News Agency said that more than 124,000 viewers watched this scene on the YouTube channel of French LCI TV station, and there were hundreds of comments including French, Korean and English, many of which criticized The news report was "insulting" and many netizens mentioned the history of Japan's colonial rule from 1910 to 1945.
"Did you realize the serious error about the South Korean flag shown at the beginning of the report? This is really serious, especially when you understand the history between South Korea and Japan." Yonhap News Agency quoted a French comment as saying.
"This is very unpleasant. If you know Korean history, there cannot be a more insulting 'mistake' than this. It is an insult." The next Korean comment on the French LCI TV channel's YouTube channel reads . ↓
"Is this intentional? The behavior of the news station is really shameless??" ↓
"Do you know what this mistake will remind people of? The Taegeuk Flag actually has a red circle. It is really outrageous and terrible. ”. ↓
"This French media is really shady. It is difficult to find this kind of flag even if you look for it on purpose. I am very sure that they did it on purpose." ↓
The report also mentioned that in order to express dissatisfaction, some netizens even deliberately added the "swastika" on the French flag to the Nazi German era. Some netizens also said that the French media's move "feels like synthesizing Nazi patterns on the French flag, which is very unpleasant from a historical perspective." ↓
According to Yonhap News Agency, an official from South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the South Korean diplomatic mission in Paris has contacted the French media to learn about the incident and asked the other party to correct its mistakes and take measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again. "Given the time difference, we expect to learn more later today," the official responded.
Source: Global Network
