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Along with the questionable images, the accompanying commentary and on-screen explanations for each country weren’t much better.
“When Haitian athletes entered the stadium, an on-screen explanation said ‘the political situation is fogged by the assassination of the president’,”tweeted Rashid. “When Syrian athletes entered, it said ‘rich underground resources; a civil war that has been going on for 10 years. ”
“For the Marshall Islands, it said ‘was once a nuclear test site for the US, and is composed of more than 1,200 islands’. El Salvador was introduced with a picture representing Bitcoin.”
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MBC simply introducing the county as a place “experiencing an economic decline with the depletion of its major natural resource phosphorite”.
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image captionTeam Italy was introduced on MBC alongside a picture of pizza
Pizza for Italy, Dracula for Romania and Chernobyl for Ukraine.
These were the pictures and captions used by a South Korean broadcaster to depict nations at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
MBC has since apologised for offending viewers, after complaints the visuals were offensive and ridiculous .
The channel said it wanted to make it easier for viewers to understand the entering countries quickly but said it was an inexcusable mistake .
At a press conference on Monday, the channel s CEO Park Sung-jae apologised, saying MBC had damaged the Olympic values of friendship, solidarity and harmony .