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Winter Olympics: NBC Sports Apologizes to Korean People for "Incorrect and Insensitive" Comment

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Description: NBC correspondent Joshua Cooper Ramo is said to have made the remark during the Opening Ceremony.

NBC Sports executives are disputing reports that Korea analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo has been fired after making a remark deemed offensive during the Olympics' Opening Ceremony. Ramo was contracted only for the Opening Ceremony and as such, "his assignment ended with the Opening Ceremony," a network spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. He was never contracted to participate in the Closing Ceremony.

NBC has long employed contributors who can speak to the geopolitical implications for the host country. These voices have typically been confined to the Opening Ceremony, which features the overtly geopolitical tableau of the parade of nations. David Remnick, the New Yorker editor and Russia expert, filled that role during NBC's coverage of the Sochi Winter Olympics; he left shortly after the Opening Ceremony.

But while Remnick garnered positive reviews for his contrib
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Publication/Media Source: Hollywood Reporter
Author: THR Staff
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Publication Date: 7:06 PM PST 2/10/2018
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Submission Date Feb 20, 2018 (Edited Feb 21, 2018)

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