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Flag of Korean Unification

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The Unification Flag is a flag designed to represent all of Korea when both North and South Korea participate in sporting events. The flag was first used in 1991 when the two countries competed as a single team in the 41st World Table Tennis Championship in Chiba, Japan and the 6th World Youth Football Championship in Lisbon, Portugal. The two countries' teams marched together under the flag in the opening ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and the 2006 Asian Games in Doha; however, the two countries competed separately in sporting events. The flag was not used in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, due to the decision made by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), that the two teams would enter separately.^[1]

The flag represents North and South Korea. The background is white. In the centre there is a blue silhouette of the Korean peninsula, including the island of Jeju-do to the southwest. In 2006 however, the two nations both agreed to use the flag which includes Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo in Korean).^[2] The flag has no status as the official flag of either country.

See also

• Chinese Taipei Olympic flag
• Proposed flag of Taiwan
• Division of Korea
• Flag of North Korea
• Flag of South Korea
• Korean peninsula
• Korean reunification
• Proposed flag of Cyprus

Notes

External links

• North & South Korea, Sydney 2000 (page on non-national Olympic flags)
• Relationship between South and North Korea in 1990s
• Explanation and detailed design of the Korean Unification Flag (Japanese language)
• North, South Agree to Add Dokdo to the Korean Unification Flag (News in Korean)
• Korean Unification Studies