A South Korean TV that broadcast some footage of the Beijing Olympics opening has been warned to draw a lesson and not to violate professional ethics, Games organizers said Friday.

The Beijing Organizing Committee of the 29th Olympic Games (BOCOG) has made solemn representations and voiced its strong discontentment to South Korea's SBS TV Station for the unauthorized broadcast of the footage, said Sun Weide, a media official with the BOCOG.

"We have requested the SBS to draw a lesson from the incident, follow the rules and refrain from violating professional ethics," Sun said at a press conference.

The three-and-a-half-hour opening ceremony masterminded by award-winning film director Zhang Yimou for next Friday has been kept in top secrecy.

But the SBS TV station aired fragments of a video of the rehearsal, including scenes depicting the past and future of Chinese culture.

Source:Xinhua