# North Korean Women's Soccer Screw-up - Olympics **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-womens-soccer-screw-up-olympics/629381 "2012-07-25T21:44:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-womens-soccer-screw-up-olympics/629381/1 "2012-07-25T21:44:20Z")
Yikes! Apparently when the players were introduced the South Korean flag was shown next to their names: > **[North Korea women's soccer team delays match after South Korea flag error](https://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--north-korea-women-s-soccer-team-delays-match-after-south-korea-flag-error.html)** > > North Korea women's soccer team left the field after its players were shown on the stadium scoreboard next to a South Korean flag. > [@](#): > > North Korea eventually played its match against Colombia, but only after receiving permission from the office of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. I can imagine they’d be a little touchy about that. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-womens-soccer-screw-up-olympics/629381/2 "2012-07-26T00:14:55Z")
They’ve got every right to be pissed. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-womens-soccer-screw-up-olympics/629381/3 "2012-07-26T00:39:46Z")
Wonder what happens if North and South Korea are put together in a match? Would they play? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-womens-soccer-screw-up-olympics/629381/4 "2012-07-26T00:48:26Z")
Seriously, they had no choice but to stop the match, return to their locker room and await instructions from on high. The consequences for them were quite literally life or death. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-womens-soccer-screw-up-olympics/629381/5 "2012-07-26T02:33:52Z")
I’m in New York State. I am not working but I was at a table with a woman from Brazil, one from (I think Taiwan), a guy from Japan and my SO and I. So they’ve been working all day, but we were eating where there was a tv going and we all started talking about the Olympics. We were talking about Phelps and greatest Olympic moments…and I realized they hadn’t seen it yet. So I told them what happened and everyone’s eye’s bugged out and jaws dropped. My comment: “Jeebus, London!!!??? Are you Texas???” Some one is getting fired for that one. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-womens-soccer-screw-up-olympics/629381/6 "2012-07-26T03:00:55Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Wonder what happens if North and South Korea are put together in a match? Would they play? We’ve played each other before in friendly matches.