Blunder

A shopping center next to the Olympic Park has displayed incomprehensible welcome signs in a garbled attempt at Arabic in the latest cultural blunder to embarrass London at a time when the eyes of the world are fixed on the British capital.

The linguistic faux-pas follows a diplomatic incident that marred the first day of competition on Wednesday, when the ROK flag was mistakenly displayed before a soccer match between the DPRK and Colombian women's teams.

The vast and glitzy Westfield shopping center displayed welcome signs in many languages but printed the Arabic ones back-to-front.