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The story
At the Asian Games underway in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, a bus mix-up occurred before a men’s volleyball match. The bus meant to carry the Pakistani delegation to the venue was instead directed to the South Korean team, while South Korea’s bus crossed paths with the one meant for the practice venue. As a result, South Korea couldn’t hold pre-match practice and was taken straight to the venue, delaying the match’s start by about 30 minutes. The organizing committee apologized, calling it “a simple mistake,” but on 5channel opinion split over whether this was mere carelessness or something more deliberate, given a string of incidents at the same Games that have gone against South Korea — fueling doubts about the operation itself.
Bus mix-up delays volleyball match — Asian Games calls it “a simple mistake”
At the men’s volleyball competition of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on the 28th, Pakistani players were directed onto the wrong bus while traveling from their accommodations to the match venue in Okazaki, delaying the start of the match by about 30 minutes.
The bus was swapped with the one South Korea’s team was supposed to take to the practice venue in Inuyama. South Korea, taken to Okazaki instead, was unable to practice.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
And the netizens who kept bashing Dentsu look pretty pathetic now.
The problem is that they've always relied on Dentsu so heavily.
That doesn't change the fact that Dentsu's influence needs to be cut down.
Doesn't it seem like there've been way too many blunders involving Korea specifically?
Are there actually saboteurs on the Japanese side doing this on purpose?
[Asian Games] Disqualified → reinstated → bronze → stripped → bronze again… Korea's 4x100m relay saga ends in laughs
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ce967dfdaf18ec8853209b3af7b1b6e902bee726
Sounds like they're even hiring for key roles through Timee (a gig-work shift app).
The Aichi residents who back Governor Omura should be the ones covering the extra costs!
That's just how it works everywhere else in the world.
Whose home turf is this supposed to be, again?
yet the 5ch "reporters" only ever pick up stories that make Japan look bad.
There is one for when Japan lost the track relay, lol.
So that means it's that, huh.
it barely feels like an event being held in Japan.
At the end of the day, nobody but Dentsu and Hakuhodo can run a major international event in this country.
Meanwhile, there are contractors raking in huge profits off the vested interests.
Background and Key Points of This Story
At this year’s Nagoya Asian Games, delegations are ferried to venues on dedicated buses arranged by the organizing committee. In this case, the bus meant for Pakistan was directed to South Korea’s team instead, while South Korea — who should have been headed to the practice venue — was taken straight to the match venue, delaying the start by about 30 minutes. The organizing committee called it “a simple mistake,” but thread posters pointed to a string of other mishaps involving South Korea at the same Games (such as the back-and-forth over the 4x100m relay ruling) and split over whether this reflects deliberate targeting or just operational incompetence. In reality this looks more like repeated human error, and neither the thread nor the source article offers any evidence that a specific country was being deliberately singled out. Some criticism was also aimed at the structure of outsourcing operations to outside agencies, though that too remains speculation.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Hayabusa Geino/Sports Express+) thread “[Asian Games] Bus mix-up sends Pakistan and South Korea to wrong venues, volleyball match delayed 30 minutes, Korea unable to practice… Organizing committee apologizes, calls it “a simple mistake”“.
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