Key facts
- Use
- Other
- Proportion
- 2:3
- Adopted
- 1991 ; 35 years ago ( 1991 )
- Design
- A white field charged in the center with a sky blue silhouette of the Korean Peninsula , Jeju Island , and Ulleungdo
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Encyclopedic overview
The Korean Unification Flag (Korean: 통일기; lit. 'Unification Flag'), also known as the Flag of the Korean Peninsula (Korean: 한반도기 or 조선반도기), is a flag used to represent all of Korea. When North Korea and South Korea participate as one team at international sporting events, the flag is carried by the unified team. It was introduced at the 1990 Asian Games but was not used by a unified team until the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships. Outside of sports, the flag has been used, particularly in North Korea, to express support for Korean reunification.
The flag is a white field charged in the center with a sky blue silhouette of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and Ulleungdo. The flag's depiction of Korean territorial claims has earned it the chagrin of Japan, which also claims the Liancourt Rocks. The disputed islets were added to the flag in 2003 but removed in 2018 upon the request of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Korean Unification Flag” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.