Taiwanese officials snubbed in Seoul

PRESSURE Taipei sent a delegation to South Korea's presidential inauguration, but its leaders were asked not to attend after China threatened to pull its representative

By Flora Wang AND KO SHU-LING / STAFF REPORTERS

He urged China to cease marginalizing Taiwanese, as it would not help the cross-strait situation.

Huang said yesterday that news of Wang and Chen being invited to attend had been leaked, giving China an opportunity to pressure the South Korean government to shut the door on them.

Despite knowing that South Korean officials were likely to give in to pressure from China, Wang and Chen still went according to plan in order to maintain Taipei-Seoul relations, he said.

Additional reporting by CNA