Relations between Japan and South Korea have plummeted to their lowest point in years. ... and with the passing of the Act on National Flag and Anthem in 1999, ...

THE taegukgi, South Korea’s national flag, has rarely been as present on the country’s streets as it is today: swung by demonstrators, plastered on trucks and pitched outside big buildings.Yet ...

For the past few years, the national flag has become a prominent fixture of hardline conservative rallies in Korea. It started in 2016 during the impeachment trial of former President Park Geun-hye.

This mobile phone photo provided by James Crossan, shows a mistakenly displayed South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea's, before a women's soccer match which prompted the North ...

But the two Korea's plan to give up their respective national flags and use the unification flag has touched off a heated confrontation between conservatives and pro-unification groups in South Korea.

Park Jang-sun, 32, a member of the Korea Youth Foundation, was bothered when he saw the Taegeukgi, Korea's national flag, carried by conservative groups at a recent counter-protest. "I was worried ...