First, let's get this out of the way. There is no such thing as a country called Chinese Taipei, or China Tapei, or anything that's some strange mutation there of.
The name of the country is Taiwan. The flag of the country is not the silly Olympics generic flag. It looks like this.
The reason you may know otherwise was beacuse of China making it a condition to allow Taiwan to attend Olympics back in 1984. Taiwan wasn't allowed to use the true country name, nor the real flag. It was a compromise for Olympics, the end.
Now, I have no idea why South Korea feel the need to bully Taiwan at the World Cyber Game Asia in Singapore during 8-8-08. Taiwan team was competing under the country name Taiwan with the real flag. South Korean team filed a formal protest, claiming Taiwan has no right to use either the flag or the name. So the name was changed and flag was stripped. Taiwan team also filed a formal protest, but was ignored.
Last year the World Cyber Game event at Seattle, when the Taiwan player won 3rd place, the Taiwan flag was shown. As the result, players from China ran up and try to prevent Taiwan players from leaving the stage, while shouting "是狗生的" (SOB) at the Taiwan players.
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