Special report: 2008 Olympic Games

    BEIJING, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- A South Korean TV that broadcast some footage of the Beijing Olympics opening has been warned to draw a lesson and not to violate professional ethics, Games organizers said Friday.

    The Beijing Organizing Committee of the 29th Olympic Games (BOCOG) has made solemn representations and voiced its strong discontentment to South Korea's SBS TV Station for the unauthorized broadcast of the footage, said Sun Weide, a media official with the BOCOG.

    "We have requested the SBS to draw a lesson from the incident, follow the rules and refrain from violating professional ethics," Sun said at a press conference.

    The three-and-a-half-hour opening ceremony masterminded by award-winning film director Zhang Yimou for next Friday has been kept in top secrecy.

    But the SBS TV station aired fragments of a video of the rehearsal, including scenes depicting the past and future of Chinese culture.

Beijing disappointed at S Korean TV's broadcasting of Games opening rehearsal

    BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- A Beijing Olympics official said Thursday he was "disappointed" that a South Korean TV station had broadcast some footage of a dress rehearsal of the Beijing Olympics opening.

    "We are disappointed they did that, but the fragments cannot give the audience a full picture of the opening ceremony," said Sun Weide, a media official with the organizing committee of the Beijing Games.

    "Let's wait for the wonderful performances when the Games open on Aug. 8," he said at a press conference.  Full story