Olympic medalists from North Korea, South Korea and China posed for a selfie following the desk tennis blended doubles medal’s ceremony.
China’s Solar Yingsha and Wang Chuqin beat North Korea’s Ri Jong-sik and Kim Kum-yong within the ultimate to win gold, as South Korea received bronze with pair Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin defeating Hong Kong.
South Korea’s Lim Jong-hoon took the photograph of all of the medalists collectively by which they had been all smiling broadly. The image was taken with a South Korean-made Samsung cellphone.
“I congratulated them after they had been launched as silver medalists,” Lim stated after the photograph, in quotes carried by Korean media.
South Korea and North Korea each declare to be the only professional authorities of all of Korea — which has been partitioned since September 1945 — with navy tensions between the 2 states and a closely fortified border.
Previous to this Olympics, all particular person objects together with cellphones had been banned from medal ceremonies, with pictures solely being allowed to be taken by official media.
All six blended double medal winners posed for the selfie (Jean Catuffe/Getty Pictures)
Nonetheless, an settlement between Samsung and the IOC permits their merchandise for use in ceremonies. “Athletes can take artistic selfies with the Galaxy Z Flip6 in numerous angles as a result of its foldable nature,” Samsung stated in a press launch this week.
The Athlete 365 app is preloaded on Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip6, which was given to competing athletes previous to its official launch earlier this month, into which the “victory selfies” of opponents might be added.
The shared photograph comes simply days after 143 South Korean athletes had been incorrectly launched as North Korean through the Olympics opening ceremony.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) was compelled to situation a “deep apology” for the incident which noticed the South Korean delegation introduced because the “Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea,” the total official title of North Korea, as their boat handed down the Seine. The formal title of South Korea is the Republic of Korea.
North Korea, which has 16 athletes as a part of its first delegation since 2016 (it was not represented on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 as a result of Covid-19 pandemic), was correctly launched later in this system in French and English.
(Prime photograph: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Pictures)