Published July 26, 2021 at 12.02
Media. A South Korean TV channel apologizes after allowing “inappropriate” images to represent different nations during the Olympics inauguration, reports RT.
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It is Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) that has been criticized for its move during the inaugural parade at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo.
Among other things, Italy was represented by a picture of a pizza and Norway by a smoked salmon.
Other images, however, were more controversial – among other things, Haiti was illustrated with a photograph of a wild street riot with burning and smoking car tires in the background. For Ukraine, a picture was shown of the completely wrecked and burnt out nuclear power plant in Chernobyl.
When the Swedish athletes entered the arena, a picture was shown of Europe with Sweden circled. Sweden was described as a “developed welfare state”. Here, however, a sign went wrong so that instead of “developed country” it said “soup on cow's blood” in Korean.
Sweden: said it was the & quot; developed country of welfare & quot; but made a typo in & quot; developed country & quot; (선진국) and wrote & quot; 선지국 & quot; which is cow blood soup, a Korean delicacy.
One more thing: MBC also indicated the GDP and vaccination rate for each country, leaving netizens baffled. pic.twitter.com/1V3XhVBU0u
& mdash; Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) July 23, 2021
Many TV viewers reacted to the broadcast and complained, and now MBC has apologized for the images, which are described as “inappropriate.