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[QUOTE="PoKeRFoRNiA, post: 1505413, member: 51710"]
Pardon my ignorance. You're right. Although I was born and raised in  the U.S. my whole life, my ethnicity is South Korean. But you have to  realize that this is different from the issues you have listed. Politics  and sports shouldn't be put together. But in this situation, it's an  exception. You must understand the relation between North Korea and  South Korea.

During the qualifier for the world cup, North Korea  and South Korea were to play against each other in North Korean  football stadium. What did North Korea do? They banned playing South  Korean national anthem before the game. WTF is that? They brought  politics into football. Whether it's Korea vs Japan, England vs France,  Spain vs Portugal, Israel vs Saudi Arabia, Greece vs Turkey, China vs  Taiwan, Germany vs Poland, etc(all the countries with bad diplomatic  relations), all the anthems should be played before the game starts.  That's a standard etiquette. Politics is politics. Sports is sports. But  North Korean government and their football association were being anal,  not to mention how rude they were to the away team if North Korea lost,  throwing rocks, chairs, trash, bottles, etc at the football players. I  was very glad that North Korea got placed into Group of Death where they  have to face Portugal and Brazil. But then again, what kind I expect  from a nation with no human rights.
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