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Nagoya Asian Games: Another Korea Anthem Blunder and a String of Operational Failures
South Korea's anthem failed to play before a women's handball match at the Nagoya Asian Games, and organizers then suspended anthems across all events — a day after North Korea's anthem was mistakenly played at a men's hockey match involving South Korea. Before the men's basketball final, the South Korean team's bus never showed, cancelling their morning practice. With lodging, transport and sound problems piling up, Japanese reaction split between dismay at 'a national embarrassment' and suspicion that the run of Korea-linked mishaps was deliberate, while a minority blamed outsourcing and told others to stop the sneering.