SNS of the Korean Football Association
In a friendly match between Korea and Japan, the national flag and Japanese flag were engraved on only the uniforms of the Korean national team.
Kang Byung-gyu posted a post on his Twitter that day and said, “The game can be lost. Yes,” he said, “But didn’t you even agree to put the national flag on the uniform of the other country?
While the Korean national team’s uniform had the Japanese flag inscribed with the Taegeukgi, the Japanese national team’s uniform had no agreement to include the Taegeukgi.
On the day before, the Korean national team engraved national flags and Japanese flags under the emblem of the Korea Football Association in commemoration of the friendly match at the Korea-Japan match held at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, Japan.
Shortly after the game, the photos of the Japanese flag on the uniform spread around the online community, raising complaints from netizens. In particular, the fact that Japanese national team uniforms only had Japanese flags without Taegeukgi increased controversy.
As the controversy grew, a post titled’Is Japanese flag on the national soccer jersey made sense?’ was also posted in the Cheong Wa Dae national petition.
An official from the Korea Football Association said, “When the national team has played friendly matches, the flags of both countries and game information have been engraved on their uniforms all the time.” “It will be.”
The fact that game information began to be engraved on the left chest of uniforms was around 2008, when the 2010 World Cup qualifiers for the South Africa World Cup began, and since then, only information such as place and date has been written in English and even the flags of both countries have been engraved without a standard format This is the explanation of the association.
The association also explained that Japan only included the Japanese flag, “it is the choice of the partner country, not the obligation.”
Meanwhile, the soccer team led by coach Paulo Bento lost 0-3 in the evaluation match against Japan the previous day.