SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South and North Korea played table tennis in Pyongyang on Friday in the first sports exchange since their historic summit last month.

 The matches were sponsored by Samsung, South Korea's second-largest business group, and North Korea's Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, a quasi-government body.

 Players from Samsung and North's Moran Hill team played five matches in Pyongyang Stadium in the North Korean capital. The competition was broadcast live by MBC-TV in South Korea.

 MBC showed North Korean spectators clapping and cheering in unison amid banners reading "Korea is one" and "We welcome and support the historic summit."

 MBC said it was the first time a South Korean commentator was allowed to accompany athletes to North Korea. In the past, they recorded comments separately in the South.

 The matches were held between South and North Korean athletes and then in mixed teams.

 "It's not about winning. What's important is that the two Koreas are taking a step toward unification," said Hwang Jin-hwan, who watched the game at a central train station in Seoul.

 Officials of the two Koreas discussed sports exchanges on the sidelines of the June 13-15 summit in which their leaders pledged to promote reconciliation and reunification.

 The issues included a proposal that the two Koreas march under a "unification" banner at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sept. 15-Oct. 1 Sydney Olympics.

 On Thursday, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch said he received an apparently favorable response on the proposal from North Korea.

 The IOC executive board will consider proposing that the two national flags be dropped from the ceremony, leaving the Korean athletes to march behind the Olympic flag only, high-ranking sources said.

 The Korean officials also discussed sending a single Korean team to the World Table Tennis Championship in Japan and the world youth soccer championship in Argentina next year.

 The two Koreas fielded single teams for a world table tennis championship and a world youth soccer championship in 1990. There were no further sports exchanges because of political tensions.

 The 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.