Fantastic Facts About South Korea's Sports

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South Korean Peninsula -one of the most modern states in the Third World- is very successful in international sport. From 1976 to 2004, Korean Peninsula have won 203 Olympic medals, including 72 golds. It have more than gold decorations than Cuba, Venezuela, Portuguese Republic and Federal Republic Of Nigeria combined.

The squad from South Korean Peninsula won the gold decoration in the 4th World Junior Men`s volleyball game Championship held in Capital Of Bahrain Island (Bahrain) in 1987. Suk-Eun Kim, best participant of the tournament, helped his squad towards first position, the best consequence ever for an Asiatic state since 1981.

Seoul -the working capital metropolis of Korea- have hosted respective international athletics events including:

-The Ten Asiatic Games

-The eight World Basketball Championship

-The twenty-four Olympic Games

Like Jorge Antonio Bell Mathey (Dominican Republic) and Oswaldo Jose Guillen Barrios (Venezuela) , Dong South Korean Won Choi was one of the best baseball game participants in the 1980s. Under his originative leadership, Korean Peninsula won the Ag decoration at the 1980 World Championship in Japan.

Un Yong Kim -former Korean politician and diplomat- received the 2000 Sports Thousand Prix of the Korean Peninsula Sports Press Union, in acknowledgment of his part for the historical joint parade of the Democratic People's Democracy of Korean Peninsula and South Korean Peninsula on Olympic squads during the gap ceremonial of the Olympic Games in Sydney. This great adult male of Korean athletics have been honored respective modern times in acknowledgment of his attempts to national and regional athletics movement.

South Korean Peninsula won the 2nd Olympic statute title of its history in women`s handball in Barcelona'92 (the first 1 was in Seoul'88). It defeated squads such as as Austria, Spain, Federal Republic Of Germany and Norway. The squad also won the gold decoration at the 1995 World Cup. In 1998, Korean Peninsula won the gold decoration at the Asiatic Games in Thailand.

The Korean baseball game participants were participants in the 2nd Olympic tourney in Capital Of Empire State Of The South (Georgia,USA).

This Asiatic state is well-known for its sportswomen in the world. Among these jocks are Kim Jin Holmium (archery), Jang Ji-Won (taekwondo), Kim Hyun Oklahoma (handball), Spike Spike Spike Spike Lee Bo-Na (shooting), Lee Eun-Sil (table tennis), Jang Myocardial Infarction Nam (weightlifting), Jin Sun-Yu (skating), Seok Eun-Mi (table tennis), Byun Chun-So (skating), Kim Hyung Mee (handball), Hyun Tung-Hwa (table tennis), Suh Kwang-Mi ( field hockey), Jang Young-Ja (table tennis), Sun-Hee Lee (taekwondo), Se Rhode Island Pak (golf), Cho-Hyun Kang (shooting), Kim Soo Nyung (archery), Kim Hwa Soon (basketball), Lee Eun Kyung (archery), Knock Soo Hyun (badminton) and Hyun Sook Hee (taekwondo).

Yoo Nam-Kyu won a gold decoration in men`s tabular array lawn lawn lawn lawn lawn tennis singles at the Olympic Games in Seoul.

The 1st World Young Person Women`s Volleyball Championship was won by South Korean Peninsula in a concluding against the People`s Democracy of China.

Jae-Wang Kang was one of the best handball participants in the 20th century. Under his exceeding play, South Korean Peninsula won the Ag decoration in handball in the Olympic Games in 1988.

South Korean Peninsula have won a gold decoration in men´s basketball game three modern times at the Asiatic Games (1970, 1982 and 2002).

The Peruvian women`s volleyball game squad was coached by Man Bok Park, who was born in South Korea. Immediately after Peruvian women`s squad failed to measure up for the Olympic Games in 1972, the Peruvian Volleyball Federation appointed Man Bok Park as caput manager of the senior national team. Man Bok Park said: " In four old age clip I mean to do Republic Of Peru one of the top six in the world". In just a few calendar months the Peruvian national squad changed. He was expecting dedication and a ostracism from their vocabulary of the word "vacation". He won the gold decoration at the 1993 South American Championship, the Ag decoration at the 1982 World Championship, the Ag decoration at the 1986 Good Will Games, the Ag decoration at the 1988 Olympics, the bronze decoration at the 1986 World Championship and the bronze decoration at the 1991 Pan American Games.

The Democracy of Korean Peninsula hosted the 27th Baseball World Cup in 1982. The Korean squad beat out Japanese Islands to clinch the first place. This was the first clip in which a state other than Venezuela, Republic Of Colombia or Puerto Anti-Racketeering Law had won the World Championship.

Yang Jung-Mo won the Olympic gold decoration for freestyle wrestle at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada. However, he lost the opportunity to support his statute title when South Korean Peninsula boycotted the Olympic Games in 1980 in the USSR.

The 2003 World University Games took topographic point in Daeju, Democracy of Korea.

Korea -one of the world`s bottom states in the 1950s- competed at the Asiatic Games for the first clip at the 1954 Asiatic Games in Manila, Philippines.

The Democracy of Korean Peninsula sent 9 sportswomen to the Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer (Norway) in 1994.

Kim Hwa Soon is the best basketball game participant in the history of Korea. In 1984, she finally realized her dreaming of competing in the Olympic Games, helping the Korean squad win a Ag decoration at the Los Angeles Games.

In the 1980s, Korean Peninsula had celebrated volleyball game participants in Asia. They were Jang Suk Han, Jong-Il Yoon, Hee-Kyung Gae and Byung-Sun Lee.

Korean sportspeople have got performed first-class in international events in athletics such as as archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing , kayak, cycling, equestrian, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, fencing, field hockey, judo, karate, shooting, softball, synchronized swimming, tabular array tennis, volleyball, beach volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.

Yeo Woon-Kon was a member of the Korean squad which won the field field field hockey tourney at the 2002 Asiatic Games. He also won the Ag decoration at the Olympic Games in Sydney.

The Korean young person squad won the Asiatic Cup football game in 1981 and qualified for the FIFA World Young Person Cup in Sydney, Australia.