On Feb. 9th, an iconic sporting event took place: the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics, with two very different countries coming together against one similar predicament.

Nearly every country is competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics, including the two notorious rivals, North and South Korea, who will be joining forces during a women’s hockey tournament, where they will both compete under the same team, under a joint flag.

This is the first time there has been any contact approved by the governments of both nations since 2014. This happens to be a very unexpected event no one saw coming, making many think this could lead a form of future reunification among the two countries, but experts, such as Professor Kim So-young, stating, “I think young Koreans these days feel they have more in common with an American or European student than with North Koreans.”

Speaking of unexpected events, unknown hackers targeted the opening ceremony, causing both LAN and WiFi to fail during the opening ceremony, though this problem was fixed at around 8 a.m. the next day.

Hwang Jun-Won, a professor of cyber security at South Korea’s Hoseo Technical college stated, “Anything that is run temporarily carries risks because not everyone is working hand in glove,” showing that people were not expecting any discrepancies during the ceremony.

With regards to the latter, Hwang also stated, “This hurts the public credibility of the Pyeongchang Olympics given how important networks are in running such a massive event.”

The evidence given leads to a small country who wants the downfall of South Korea, and that is it’s not so friendly northern neighbor.

This leads many to think that this was a stunt pulled by international spying agencies to discredit South Korea. Most fingers are pointing at North Korea in this investigation.

The cyber-attacks caused the internet to lose power and the televisions in the main press center to shut off completely. Drones which were supposed to film the two-hour opening ceremony failed to record live video of the event, leading the Pyeongchang Olympics to use prerecorded footage of the event.

Though the events were catastrophic, many saw this as a time to reassess the North and South Korean relation, asking if they desire or have a need for reunification.

After twelve long hours of trying to fix and ‘unhack’ the system, it was done and luckily no information was broken or stolen, and everything turned out fine. Almost everyone hopes that the events will go down swimmingly without any major problems and/or concerns.