5th in golds and 7th overall…a pretty good haul for a small country.
SEOUL (AFP) – South Korean athletes led by figure skater Kim Yu-Na received a rapturous welcome from more than 1,000 fans Tuesday on their return home in triumph from the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
A huge banner reading "We are very proud of you [...]
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EJ Yang Cages the Tiger!
[Source: NYT]
My MOM just called me at 8 in the morning about this, and is ecstatic. Funny how that Korean pride never dies! I don’t know ANYTHING about golf, besides the fact that me and Tiger apparently share the same amount of black (and not), but there was much rejoicing across the Korean world from [...]
Korean Female Golfers Still Have Strong Fathers; No Longer Good With Their Hands
here’s your setup, Brian.
Another article in the Korean Times asks the question “Why are Korean women so good at golf?”
While Korea’s superior confucian family values are indeed mentioned, there is no mention of the advantage eating chopsticks has given Korean women over those blonde fembots from the West.
For further reading on the topic, [...]
