South Koreans are dissatisfied with the climbing wall of the Tokyo Olympics, "It's the rising sun that raises the flag!" "

Japan won a record 27 gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, while South Korea won a record 6 gold medals since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. But their Olympics don't seem to be over yet.

　South Korea criticised that one of the artificial walls used during the climbing process of the new competition, rock climbing, was inspired by Japan's Rising Sun Flag.

　The reason for this was an article posted on Instagram by Kim Ci-jin, known in South Korea as the "Queen of Rock Climbing." "The Rising Sun Flag is a military flag used by Japan during World War II, a flag symbolizing Japanese militarist war criminals."

"The rising sun flag is no different from the hook cross, the symbol of Nazi Germany."

　In response was Seo Kyung-deok, a professor at South Korea's Sungyong Women's University, known as an anti-Japanese activist, who sent protest documents to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on August 9, after the closing ceremony.

Former Asahi Shimbun correspondent in Seoul, Keiji Maekawa, was greatly dissatisfied, "South Korea has recently used the rising sun flag as a tool to claim compensation from Japan, but South Korea's claim to compare the rising sun flag with the Nazi hook cross has not been recognized worldwide." The Japanese government should also proceed from the position of "excluding political and differentiated propositions" and resolutely respond to South Korea's protests against the rising sun flag. If all the rising sun flags are a problem, why don't South Korean activists take the Asahi Shimbun flag as a problem? If it is because the Asahi News is pro-South Korea, it is too contradictory. "

　Coincidentally, Lee Ki-heung, president of the Korean Sports Association, said at a press conference on August 8: "The IOC has promised to ban the use of the rising sun to raise the sky flag at the Olympic Games in the future." Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee Secretary-General Toshiro Muto retorted the next day that "it is not true that the (IOC) said that it is not a fact to ban the rising sun flag," and that the raising of the rising sun has become another problem in Japan-South Korea diplomacy.