TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,David
TI  - Korea's Olympic icon: Kim Un-Yong's resolute odyssey 
SN  - 162412125X
AV  - GV697.K456 M55 2019
U1  - 796.4809519092 (K) 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Irvine, CA
PB  - Seoul Selection
KW  - Kim, Un-yong,
KW  - Sports
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Tae kwon do
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Emergent Phenomenon; Chapter 2. Seoul Spectacular; Chapter 3. Asian Leadership; Chapter 4. Salt Lake Subterfuge; Chapter 5. Presidential Turmoil; Chapter 6. Pyeongchang Reversal; Chapter 7. Symbiotic Convergence; Chapter 8. Squandered Icon; Postscript; Bibliography; Index; Author Biography: David Miller; Back Cover
N2  - "Over the course of a more than 40-year career in sports administration, Kim Un-yongserved as KSOC chairman and IOC Executive Board member and vice president. One of the greats of the South Korean sports world, he made major contributions to bringing numerous major international competitions and conferences to South Korea, including the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, and several IOC Sessions. He also succeeded in having taekwondo adopted as an official Olympic event at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and organizing joint entrances by the North and South Korean squads at the event's opening and closing ceremonies"--; Korea's Olympic Icon - Kim Un-yong's Resolute Odyssey shares profound insights into the life of Kim Un-yong, the father of Olympic Taekwondo and a legend of Korean sports administrationThis biography is of special significance as a work by David Miller, veteran sports journalist and awards winning author from Great Britain, who has spent six decades traveling to sports events around the globe. Miller has covered 24 Olympic Games, attending 45 annual Sessions of the International Olympic Committee, fourteen World Cup football finals and more than thirty sports in 120 countries. Korea's Olympic
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