Unification Flag
Unification Flag Flag ratio: 3:5
Hangul:	통일기
Hanja:	統一旗
Revised Romanization:	Tong-ilgi
McCune-Reischauer:	T'ong'ilgi

The Unification Flag is used to represent all of Korea when North and South Korea participate together in sporting events. The flag was first used in 1991 when the two countries competed as a single team in the 41st World Table Tennis Championship in Chiba, Japan and the 6th World Youth Soccer Championship in Lisbon, Portugal. The two countries' teams marched together under the flag in the opening ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, but it should be noted that both countries competed separately in sporting events. Unification flag of Korea. ... FIAV usage code 63. ... Hangul is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the hanja system borrowed from China. ... Hanja, or hanmun, sometimes translated as Sino-Korean characters, are what Chinese characters (hanzi) are called in Korean. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... North Korea, officially the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula of Korea. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wang Liqin winning a forehand drive against Jörg Rosskopf. ... Chiba (千葉市 Chiba-shi) is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... The Games of the XXVII Olympiad or the Millennium Olympics were the Summer Olympic Games held in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. ... Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and with a population of over four million people is the most populous city in Australia. ... The 2004 Summer Olympics are officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (the 28th Summer Olympic Games). ... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα Athína IPA ) is the capital of Greece and one of the most famous cities in the world. ... The XX Olympic Winter Games will be held in Torino [or Turin], Italy from February 10 to February 26, 2006. ... Torino or Turin is a major industrial city in north-western Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the west bank of the Po River. ...

The flag represents all of Korea. The background is white. In the centre there is a blue outline of the Korean peninsula including Jeju-do to the southwest. Smaller islands are left out, but there is a variation that includes Ulleung-do and notably Liancourt Rocks. The flag has no status as an official flag of either country. The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. ... Jejudo Flag Jeju-do is the smallest province of South Korea, situated on, and coterminous with, the countrys largest island. ... Ulleung-do is a Korean island in the Sea of Japan (East Sea). ... The Liancourt Rocks are islets in the Sea of Japan (East Sea). ...

See also

• "Chinese Taipei" flags
• Proposed flag of Taiwan
• Division of Korea
• Flag of North Korea
• Flag of South Korea
• Korean peninsula
• Korean reunification
• Proposed Reunification flag of Cyprus

Chinese Taipei (Chinese: 中華台北; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is the designated name that the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, uses to participate in most international organizations due to the insistence of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) under its version of the One-China policy, that the ROC may... The 1996 proposal for the flag of the Republic of Taiwan, designed by the Rev. ... The Korean peninsula, first divided along the 38th parallel, later along the demarcation line The modern division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from the 1945 Allied victory in World War II. The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to jointly administer the newly liberated nation... The Flag of North Korea was adopted on September 8, 1948, as the national flag and ensign. ... The flag of South Korea is white with a red (top) and blue Yin Yang symbol in the center; there is a different black trigram from the ancient I Ching (Book of Changes, called Ju Yeok in Korean) in each corner of the white field. ... The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. ... Unification Flag of Korea Korean reunification is the possible future unification of North Korea and South Korea under a single government. ... Flag ratio: 3:5 The current flag of Cyprus was adopted on August 16, 1960. ...

External links

• North & South Korea, Sydney 2000 (page on non-national Olympic flags)
• Relationship between South and North Korea in 1990's