The Seoul city government on Thursday withdrew a plan to set up a 100-meter-high pole topped with Taegeukgi, the national flag, in Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul following criticism that the ...

As the South Korean athletes waved their nation ... On Friday, the Olympic rings flag hung limply down next to the pole. Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul and Graham Dunbar in ...

North Korea has a 525-foot pole. Iran has a 490-foot-pole. The 10 countries with the tallest flagpoles that fly their national flags are, in order of height: Egypt, Azerbaijan, Russia, Saudi ...