How the South Korean Women’s Curling Team Became the K-Pop Stars of the Olympics
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In 1997, a physical education teacher from a small town in rural South Korea boarded a plane to North Bay, Ontario with a two-week supply of Korean instant noodles to learn more about a sport he had recently fallen in love with: curling.
That improbable journey planted the seeds for the South Korean women’s curling team’s surprising rise from anonymity to dominance at their hometown Winter Olympics more than two decades later.
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February 24, 2018 at 09:57AM