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FDNY
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 Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:57 pm Post subject: Breaking News: Kimchi Responsible for Korean Olympic Gold! |
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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/08/01/2012080101521.html
Kimchi-Making, Chopsticks 'Behind Korean Archers' Success'
The stellar performance on Korean female archers at the London Olympics has been credited to kimchi and the practice of using steel chopsticks. The Korean team won gold for the seventh straight time since the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
"Korean women excel at feel sports such as archery and golf because of heightened sensitivity and dexterity in their hands and fingers. This sensitivity supposedly developed generations ago through the traditional method of making the national dish kimchi," Reuters said Tuesday.
"Another explanation for this increased dexterity lies in their traditional eating utensil -- Korean chopsticks. While other Asian countries also use chopsticks, they tend to be longer, wooden implements, relatively easy to use. Korean chopsticks are made of slippery, slender steel and are incredibly difficult to master," it added.
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JustinC
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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That's just like an article that would appear in any country's tabloid headline, except substitute kimchi for their own national dish.
It didn't say 'Shin A-lam got the rough end of the stick, probably due to the time-keepers not using metal chopsticks', so they missed out there. They could've had a 'Lamb-eating young Brit mistakes clock for Shepherd's Pie Shocker!!'. splash across the front page. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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I've actually met both the national men's and women's coaches for Korean archery, and I asked one of them that exact question on why Korean women have such a strong hold on Olympic gold in archery.
His answer had nothing to do with chopsticks or kimchi, just lots and lots of practice and hard work. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Glad he didn't propagate that tripe.
IMO, it belittles the hard work they put into it. |
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JeffersonDarcy2010
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I've heard that sleeping in class makes their faces flat, too. |
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fermentation
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
Glad he didn't propagate that tripe.
IMO, it belittles the hard work they put into it. |
That's exactly what I hate about this kind of stuff. It's a way of taking credit for others' hard work. People see others' accomplish great things and feel better about themselves because they happen to share the same nationality or whatever. No, them being Korean or eating kimchi had nothing to do with it, it's hard work and dedication. Their hard work and dedication. |
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JeffersonDarcy2010
Joined: 05 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Someday, kimchi will be responsible for building a rocket that will be successfully launched into space, too. I predict it will happen in the year 2030. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:47 pm Post subject: Re: Breaking News: Kimchi Responsible for Korean Olympic Gol |
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| FDNY wrote: |
In Related Stories:
Soju Is Actually Healthy (Kills stomach bacteria)
Running Red Lights Makes Korea More Competitive (Darwinism)
Smoking Increases Korean Health Standard (Fumes chase away mosquitoes)
Overwork Leads to Reduced Stress (Who wants to plan vacations anyway?) |
Nice one. I actually moused over these looking for the links.  |
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Seoulman69
Joined: 14 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it not Reuters we should be condemning? That is where the story came from. |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: Breaking News: Kimchi Responsible for Korean Olympic Gol |
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| ChosunIlbo wrote: |
| Korean women excel at feel sports |
Surely this is more to do with travelling on packed subways than anything else? |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| The real reason why Tiger Wood's wife left him is because he stopped using chopsticks to eat his kimchi. |
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suzhou2010
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
I've actually met both the national men's and women's coaches for Korean archery, and I asked one of them that exact question on why Korean women have such a strong hold on Olympic gold in archery.
His answer had nothing to do with chopsticks or kimchi, just lots and lots of practice and hard work. |
Good to know! Sounds like they are much more reasonable than the media trying to create a story out of nothing. |
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sml7285
Joined: 26 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| suzhou2010 wrote: |
| HapKi wrote: |
I've actually met both the national men's and women's coaches for Korean archery, and I asked one of them that exact question on why Korean women have such a strong hold on Olympic gold in archery.
His answer had nothing to do with chopsticks or kimchi, just lots and lots of practice and hard work. |
Good to know! Sounds like they are much more reasonable than the media trying to create a story out of nothing. |
It's the Korean way of thinking that they too could potentially be a superstar athlete had they wanted to be. It's no different than the 300 lbs. armchair quarterback. |
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Dodge7
Joined: 21 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| So when will they acknowledge Kimchi actually contributes to stomach cancer? |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
I've actually met both the national men's and women's coaches for Korean archery, and I asked one of them that exact question on why Korean women have such a strong hold on Olympic gold in archery.
His answer had nothing to do with chopsticks or kimchi, just lots and lots of practice and hard work. |
Korean Olympic-style [FITA] archery originally came from Korean traditional archery. As a matter of fact, it was fifty years ago this year that FITA archery was introduced into Korean schools; the following year, Korea became a member of FITA. It wasn't until 1983 that FITA archery separated from Korean traditional archery to form its own association.
As such, the original Korean Olympic archers were also traditional archers and brought with them the mental and physical training and techniques of the latter. They still use them to this day. Archers in other countries started calling it the "Korean Method" and many try to emulate it. |
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