Ice hockey team lost in translation

SEOUL - The unified Korean women's ice hockey team faced an unexpected challenge at their first joint training session, reports said on Monday - vastly different hockey terminology on either side of the divided Korean Peninsula.

Seven decades of almost total separation after the 1950-53 Korean War, with all ordinary civilian contact blocked between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea, has seen their once common language diverge in many respects.

The two countries still share the same writing system, known as Hangul - an alphabet developed in the 15th century to replace Chinese characters.