South Korea Leader Hopes for Unified Olympic Team With the North<br />The South Korean president, who advocates dialogue<br />and reconciliation with North Korea, recalled past instances where the two Koreas fielded joint teams in international sports competitions and their national teams marched together in Olympic Games.<br />By CHOE SANG-HUNJUNE 24, 2017<br />SEOUL, South Korea — President Moon Jae-in of South Korea proposed on Saturday<br />that his country and North Korea form a unified team to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics, to be held in the city of Pyeongchang in the South.<br />Moon welcomed the North Korean taekwondo team to the South, which hopes to send its demonstration team to an International<br />Taekwondo Federation competition to be held in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, in September.<br />He said the two taekwondo federations’ cooperation should inspire the two Koreas to work for a joint Olympic team.<br />In South Korea, broadcasts of soccer matches are interspersed with English terms like "goal post," "penalty kick"<br />and "midfield." In the North, where state linguists abhor foreign terminology, athletes use Korean translations not readily understandable to South Korean players.<br />In 1991, the two Koreas fielded a joint team to an international table-tennis championship and international youth soccer tournament.
