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100 1 _aMiller, David,
_d1935 March 1-
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aKorea's Olympic icon :
_bKim Un-Yong's resolute odyssey /
_cby David Miller.
264 1 _aIrvine, CA :
_bSeoul Selection,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource (217 pages)
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520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
505 0 _aCover 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
520 _aKorea'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.
590 _aMaster record variable field(s) change: 050, 082
600 1 0 _aKim, Un-yong,
_d1931-2017.
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_aMiller, David.
_tKorea's Olympic Icon : Kim Un-yong's Resolute Odyssey.
_dIrvine, CA : Seoul Selection, �2019
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