Houston Chronicle By Cindy George February 7, 2018
Host country's flag, anthem excluded from opening ceremonyEven though South Korea is hosting the Winter Olympics in Pyeong Chang this month, the nation's flag will not be flown during the opening ceremony this week.
Instead, the republic's athletes are scheduled to march with participants from communist North Korea under a "unification flag" while folk songs of the Korean Peninsula play.
What is considered by many to be a show of faux unity has unnerved people of Korean descent around the globe who participated in protests Wednesday.
In Houston, about 100 people – most of whom endured the horrors of the Korean War – displayed the flag of South Korea, sang the nation's anthem and burned a cardboard effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
"This is our Olympics. We should be proud of the Korean flag and we should sing the Korean anthem," said Helen Chang, one of the speakers at the Houston rally. "We are doing this today because tomorrow, North Korea is exhibiting their militant power. What is this? This is not peace."
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