• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    They introduced them as “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, which is the official name for North Korea. South Korea’s official name is just “Republic of Korea”. I can totally see many people who are used to calling them “North” or “South Korea” mixing those up.

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    3 months ago

    This didn’t even make the US broadcast. NBC skipped a lot of countries from the Parade of Nations. As a country of immigrants, you’d think they’d show them all.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, that’s why I find BBC streams wherever possible. The American broadcast anchors talk too damn much, and always show more fluff garbage than the actual events.

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        3 months ago

        That’s all American tv

        We get American Ninja Warrior in my country and it’s an hour of fluff with 5 minutes of the actual programme sprinkled in

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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        3 months ago

        Although in this case, even the BBC announcers were pretty awful. I started with the CBC via my VPN and switched to the UK after the white CBC lady started doing “Caribbean” accents when those countries floated by. It was better, but still pretty bad. I wish there would be a way to just watch it without anyone announcing anything. Just give me subtitles for the French public announcements at the ceremony.

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    3 months ago

    Imagine if they introduced them as “South Korea” and “better Korea”!

    (Because this is the internet I have to explicitly state that it’s a joke and of course N. Korea is a not better. I mean, S. Korea has plenty of problems too but still…)

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    3 months ago

    I thought they added the word “democratic” but the announcer was speaking over it so I wasn’t sure. I did say at the time, "did they just call ‘South Korea’ ‘North Korea?’

    But the whole ceremony was such a bizarre fever dream that by the time they got to robohorse, I had totally forgotten that.