South and North Korean table tennis players take symbolic selfie

South and North Korean table tennis players take symbolic selfie

North Koreans Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, silver medalists in mixed doubles table tennis, and South Koreans Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-Bin, bronze medalists, posed together on the podium on Tuesday, July 30 in Paris at the 2024 Olympic Games. A far from trivial photo for these athletes from countries at war.

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The photo taken by South Korean Lim Jong-hoon shows his teammate Shin Yu-bin, as well as the North Korean Olympic vice-champion pair Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, as well as the Chinese Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, gold medalists in the JO 2024.

The moment was captured by a Samsung smartphone, South Korean tech flagship. A selfie with the national flags of the two Koreas and a Samsung phone “, described the popular South Korean daily JongAng Ilbo.

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North Korea did not send any athletes to the Tokyo Games in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This silver medal marks its return to an Olympic podium. I congratulated them when they were presented (on the podium) as silver medalists “, Lim Jong-hoon told South Korean press after the ceremony.

South Korean television channels are replaying the selfie on a loop and analyses of this photo, immortalizing a rare moment of unity between the two Koreas, are pouring in. This is the true spirit of the Olympic Games ” South Korea is still technically at war with the North, after a 1950-53 conflict that ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

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