The teenage pop star waved a Taiwanese flag on a Korean TV show and has sparked a cross-Strait

political row. Park Ji-won reports.

It all started with a waving of Taiwanese flag on a Korean entertainment program,...

after 16-year old K-pop group member Tzu-yu,.. born and raised in Taiwan,... introduced her

homeland to the Korean viewers. It was innocuous enough to Koreans,... but

not to Chinese viewers. The Taiwanese flag is considered a symbol

of Taiwan's pro-independence movement,... the teenage pop star released a video apology

last Friday,... saying she feels deep remorse for her actions,... and stressed there is

only one China. The K-pop star's agency JYP also released

an apology statement the same day,.saying the agency was not prudent enough with regards

to the sensitivity of the matter.

Taiwanese citizens expressed anger over the teenage singer's apology on the day of its

presidential election a day after the video was uploaded.

It became a main issue during the election over the weekend,... and analysts said the

flag row may have widened the main opposition's victory margin by some one percent.

The main opposition party is skeptical about closer ties with Beijing,... gaining a majority

in the parliament for the first time.

"We need to make sure the world realizes that there is nothing wrong with waving the Taiwanese

flag. It's not something that should be condemned."

With the flag-row deepening,... Taiwanese citizens are organizing a massive protest

on Sunday,... and about 10-thousand people have expressed willingness to join the movement.

Amid the controversy, the official website of JYP,.. Taiwanese teen's Korean agency,...

was hacked over the weekend. The website remains down,... and the agency

says at the moment,..it does not know the source of the cyber attack.

Park Ji-won, Arirang News.