On the occasion of celebrating the Crimean Tatar Flag Day, the flag of the Crimean Tatar people was raised at the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Korea along with the State Flag of Ukraine.

Crimean Tatar Flag Day is a day of honoring the national flag of Crimean Tatars, the indigenous people of Crimea. It is celebrated annually on June 26.

The ethnic Crimean Tatar flag was first approved by the First Kurultai of Crimean Tatars in 1917, which took place in Bakhchisaray. However, during the Soviet era the flag was constantly repressed.

In 1929, the communist authorities declared the blue flag "bourgeois-nationalist" and banned its use. In places of deportation of Crimean Tatars after 1944, keeping the flag was considered a crime against the Soviet authorities. Already in 1970-1980, a large part of the Crimean Tatar youth did not know their flag.

At the Second Kurultai, which took place on June 30, 1991, the decision "On the national flag and national anthem of the Crimean Tatar people" was ruled to reaffirm the design of the flag: a sky-blue ground with a symbol of power corner near the staff, the ratio of sides 1: 2.

The blue cloth and gold tamga were chosen not by chance. The sky-blue color of the Turkic peoples symbolizes purity and freedom, honesty and loyalty, perfection and strength. The uniform color of the ground is associated with the desire for unity of the people, peace and prosperity.

In Crimea Tamga (family sign) was in every noble family. Each generation had its own tamga. Usually, a descendant of a certain kin, taking the tamga of his ancestor, added a new element to it.

It was from the moment of the return of the Crimean Tatars to Crimea during the times of independent Ukraine that the flag began its revival together with its people.

In the Russian-annexed Crimea, the flag is not officially banned. The Kremlin-controlled government is trying to make the Crimean Tatar population loyal through national symbols and to prove to the world community the propaganda claim of "equality" of the peoples of Crimea. At the same time, the open use of the Crimean Tatar flag and other national symbols is subject to repression.