Fans flock to cheer joint Korean ice hockey team


  • Hockey
  • Sunday, 04 Feb 2018

Ice Hockey - Friendly - Inter-Korea v Sweden - Seonhak International Ice Rink, Incheon, South Korea - February 4, 2018 - Supporters wave unification flags. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korean fans chanting, "We are one" and wearing shirts with the unification flag emblazoned on the front packed into a freezing ice hockey arena on Sunday to cheer on the joint Korean women's team in a tune-up for this month's Winter Olympics.

North and South Korea agreed last month to field a combined women's ice hockey team and march together under one flag in Pyeongchang after a new round of talks amid a thaw in cross-border relations.

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