Unified Korean Team at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships
Also called: Team Korea (1991)
The first unified inter-Korean team since division, "Korea", competed at the World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba, Japan, and beat China to win the women’s team title.
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Inter-Korean sports talks in February 1991 agreed on a joint team named "Korea", with a white flag bearing a sky-blue Korean peninsula (the Unification Flag) and "Arirang" as its anthem. From 24 April to 6 May, players from both Koreas competed as one team at the 41st World Table Tennis Championships at the Nippon Convention Center (Makuhari Messe) in Chiba.
The women’s team of Hyun Jung-hwa and Hong Cha-ok from the South and Ri Pun-hui and Yu Sun-bok from the North beat China in the final. In June a unified team also played at the FIFA World Youth Championship in Portugal and reached the quarter-finals.