Will it be Korea or Corea in Athens?

SEOUL: If things go very smoothly, South and North Korea may field a joint “Corean” team in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. But changing the national title will be much harder than marching together behind a single flag. Also, no one can predict how relations between the two sides will develop during the year ahead. 

As reported, a group of historians from the two Koreas agreed at a Pyongyang symposium last week to change the nation’s Romanised title from Korea to Corea. They didn’t specify when the change could become official so the international community can adopt the new name. But they shared the view that next year’s Olympic Games offer a superb occasion to inform the global society about their consensus.