Unified Korean Hockey Team Finishes Winless. So Why All the Cheering?
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Unified Korean Hockey Team Finishes Winless. So Why All the Cheering?
They were cheering for a hockey game and a hockey team, and I really appreciated that." Once the two Koreas decided to combine rosters, the team, made up not only of players from North and South Korea but teammates who had naturalized as South Korean citizens to play on the team, embodied hopes
that cooperation at the Games might help soothe tensions on the peninsula.
"Since the North Korean and South Korean people have so few chances to meet each other, this team has provided the chance for both players and spectators to meet each other." She continued, "We will learn about the differences in our cultures,
but also we can learn how to improve our relationship." According to polls in South Korea, support for the unified team, which was decidedly mixed before the Games, rose over the course of the week in which the women played together.
The unified Korean women’s hockey team — the only team at the Olympics to feature athletes from both North
and South Korea — skated onto the ice for the last time at Kwandong Hockey Center here Tuesday, losing, 6-1, to Sweden and closing out its Olympic run without winning a single matchup.
Park said that As North and South Korean players work together in harmony, I believe this can be connected to the unification process in Korea,
And despite the conspicuous absence of the North Korean cheerleaders, who had inspired intense fascination at previous
games, the South Korean fans kept up buoyant chants of "Be strong!" and "Win, Korea, Win!" throughout the matchup.
When approached, a South Korean woman who declined to give her name
and said she had been assigned to guard the North Koreans, held up her hands in the sign of an "X." "No interviews," she said.
They were cheering for a hockey game and a hockey team, and I really appreciated that." Once the two Koreas decided to combine rosters, the team, made up not only of players from North and South Korea but teammates who had naturalized as South Korean citizens to play on the team, embodied hopes
that cooperation at the Games might help soothe tensions on the peninsula.
"Since the North Korean and South Korean people have so few chances to meet each other, this team has provided the chance for both players and spectators to meet each other." She continued, "We will learn about the differences in our cultures,
but also we can learn how to improve our relationship." According to polls in South Korea, support for the unified team, which was decidedly mixed before the Games, rose over the course of the week in which the women played together.
The unified Korean women’s hockey team — the only team at the Olympics to feature athletes from both North
and South Korea — skated onto the ice for the last time at Kwandong Hockey Center here Tuesday, losing, 6-1, to Sweden and closing out its Olympic run without winning a single matchup.
Park said that As North and South Korean players work together in harmony, I believe this can be connected to the unification process in Korea,
And despite the conspicuous absence of the North Korean cheerleaders, who had inspired intense fascination at previous
games, the South Korean fans kept up buoyant chants of "Be strong!" and "Win, Korea, Win!" throughout the matchup.
When approached, a South Korean woman who declined to give her name
and said she had been assigned to guard the North Koreans, held up her hands in the sign of an "X." "No interviews," she said.