TV network apologises for opening ceremony broadcast
A South Korean TV network has apologised after using inappropriate images and captions to describe countries during the opening ceremony.
MBC used
- images of pizza to describe Italy,
- an upheaval for Haiti,
- Chernobyl for Ukraine and
- salmon for Norway,
when athletes from those countries entered the stadium for the opening ceremony.
In its captions, the network referred to
- the Marshall Islands as "once a nuclear test site for the United States" and
- Syria as the country that has had "a civil war going on for 10 years".
MBC issued an apology after its choice of the imagery sparked backlash online, saying:"Inappropriate images and captions were used to introduce some stories.
We apologised to those countries including Ukraine and our viewers".
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