The Olympics in no way calm relations between Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing.
As soon as the Korean team settled in the Olympic Village, South Korean athletes committed a provocation.
They hung banners on the balconies that read,
"I still have the support of 50 million Koreans
.
"
A quote from their national hero, Admiral Yi Sun-sin, Korean equivalent of Joan of Arc.
At the end of the 16th century, this admiral twice defeated the Japanese fleets charged to invade Korea.
The soldier intended, by this sentence, to emphasize that, despite the inferiority in number of his warships, a whole people were behind him to repel the Japanese aggressor.
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By this provocation, Korea also wanted to recall that, during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, its famous athlete Son Ki-chong, then called Son Kitei by Japan which had colonized the country in 1910, had won the marathon but that his victory was attributed to Tokyo.
Three years after the surrender of Japan in 1945,
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