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- South Korea’s World Cup team responded to a Swedish spy for Sweden’s team by swapping their jerseys so it would be harder to tell them apart.
- Taeguk Warriors coach Shin Tae-yong told reporters Sunday “it is very difficult for Westerners to distinguish between Asians.”
- The Swedish spy, who is a member of Sweden’s coaching staff, said he later set up a telescope and spied on the team from a local couple’s home.
- Sweden apologized for the incident, but South Korea said it was “perfectly natural” for teams to gather information on one another.
South Korea’s World Cup team responded to spying by the Swedish team by swapping their jerseys so that Sweden couldn’t tell them apart.
Taeguk Warriors coach Shin Tae-yong told reporters Sunday that his team swapped around their numbers after a member of Sweden’s coaching staff was caught trying to spy on their closed training session in Austria earlier this month.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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