The South Korean delegation posted anti-Japanese slogans in the Olympic Village, and Japanese and Korean netizens quarreled at each other?

Yes, there is only the last week left before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, but at this juncture, a cheering banner brought by Koreans to Japan and posted up caused "big trouble."

According to reports from Observer.com on July 16, citing the Asahi Shimbun and other foreign media, the South Korean team arrived in Japan a few days ago and has checked into the Olympic Village. However, the Korean staff not only hung Korean flags outside the balcony of their residence, The national flag was also publicly displayed with an "anti-Japanese slogan."

It turns out that the cheering slogan on this banner is "I still have the solidarity and support of 50 million people." This sentence comes from the famous anti-Japanese general Yi Sun-shin during the Joseon Dynasty when he faced the Japanese invasion. He wrote a letter to the Korean royal family asking for war, as he said during the war, "I still have 12 ships."

It didn’t take long for Japanese netizens to discover that there was something wrong with this banner. Japanese netizens, who were thinking “What does it mean when you come to Japan to hang anti-Japanese slogans and banners?”, soon began to ask South Korea launch an attack.

Netizens’ views on this matter:

Japanese netizens are naturally very angry. There are more than 4,300 comments on Yahoo Japan, Japan’s largest portal, and most of them are angry. The Korean team "does not practice martial ethics" and believes that they want to use the Olympics to achieve political goals, calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to punish or even ban the Korean team.

"Now that it has been confirmed, the IOC should punish them."

"I hope the person in charge can hear the story and intention of hanging the banner and take a serious response."

"Is this clearly a political use of the Olympics? It should be suspended."