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Book Global Television And The Politics Of The Seoul Olympics

Download or read book Global Television And The Politics Of The Seoul Olympics written by James F. Larson and published by James F. Larson. This book was released on 1993-12-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Seoul Olympics

Download or read book The Seoul Olympics written by Park Seh-Jik and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Greatest Olympics

Download or read book The Greatest Olympics written by Kim Un-yong and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Olympics It calls 1988 Seoul Olympics as the greatest Olympics. The author, the Former IOC Vice President Kim Un-yong in his book, calls the 24th Seoul Olympics as the greatest festival of mankind. He says Seoul Olympics put the Olympic Games on a right track, contributing to the development and democratization of Korea. He further says the Seoul Games will be recorded in history as the Games which gave desire and hope to Eastern European countries.

Book The Dirtiest Race in History

Download or read book The Dirtiest Race in History written by Richard Moore and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men's 100m final at the 1988 Olympics has been described as the dirtiest race ever - but also the greatest. Aside from Johnson's blistering time, the race is infamous for its athletes' positive drug tests. This is the story of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and Lewis, and the repercussions still felt almost a quarter of a century on.

Book Impact of the Seoul Olympic Games on National Development

Download or read book Impact of the Seoul Olympic Games on National Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Five Rings Over Korea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard W. Pound
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Five Rings Over Korea written by Richard W. Pound and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korea   s Olympic Icon

Download or read book Korea s Olympic Icon written by David Miller and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korea’s Olympic Icon - Kim Un-yong’s Resolute Odyssey is a critical biography of the late Dr. Kim Un-yong, the founder president of the World Taekwondo and of the Kukkiwon World Taekwondo Headquarters, and the former Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) president and International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president. This biography is of special significance as a work by David Miller, veteran sports journalist and awards winning author from Great Britain. The book provides profound insights into the exhilarating life of Kim Un-yong, a man whose light shone brightest on the international stage, leaving a huge footprint on sports history not only in South Korea and Asia but across the world. Whilst the focus of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) publication in 2017, A Big Man Who Embraced the World, Kim Un-Yong, recounted primarily Kim's life and career as national sports hero, this latest work delves into his international impact. Miller and Kim interacted over many years and enjoyed a particular closeness; the author has stated that "there would never have been an Olympics in Seoul had it not been for Kim". Kim Un-yong's global influence was individually responsible for major events being hosted by South Korea, most notably the Seoul Olympics of 1988 and the FIFA World Cup of 2002 jointly with Japan. Further historic moments included the opening and closing ceremonies of Sydney's 2000 Olympics with joint marches of the North and South teams of the Peninsular arranged by Kim. It was also in the 2000 Sydney Olympics that Kim achieved Taekwondo’s inclusion as an Olympic sport for the first time: a hitherto little known domestic leisure sport. As IOC President Samaranch's privately intended successor, Kim's mounting fame and senior appointments, as IOC vice-president and as president of the General Assembly of International Sports Federations (GAISF), attracted envy, both within sport and domestically within politics. Lamentable political revenge at home in the aftermath of Pyeongchang’s unsuccessful first of three Winter Olympic bids in 2003, resulting in a contrived prison sentence challenged by the United Nations Human Rights Commission, but symbiotically mirrored by the IOC Ethics Commission, found Kim toppled from authority, forced to resign his IOC vice-presidency just months after being elected by a substantial majority. Kim would go on to resume his outside activities and sharing his sports administration acumen through a 2006 advisory role on the organising committee for the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon and a 2010 advisory role on the organising committee for the 2015 Universiade in Gwangju and taking on positions as an advisor to the KSOC and honorary chairman of the Korea Taekwondo Association. He would also share his ideas through lectures and talks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and various universities, whilst contributing columns to online and printed media. In 2016 he founded the Kimunyong Sport Committee (KUYSC) and launched the Kimunyong Cup International Open Taekwondo Championships (G1) shortly before his unexpected passing in October 2017. Detailing the passionate life story of Kim Un-yong as someone who represented South Korea’s face in the world of global sports - taking on multiple roles over history as a soldier, diplomat, sports administrator, and politician - this critical biography is rich in messages of courage and hope that are worthy of sharing with younger readers. It also offers a practical guide to thinking people of all generations in fields beyond sports administration and marketing, including diplomacy and international business. The book consists of eight chapters: 1. Emergent Phenomenon, 2. Seoul Spectacular, 3. Asian Leadership, 4. Salt Lake Subterfuge, 5. Presidential Turmoil, 6. Pyeongchang Reversal, 7. Symbiotic Convergence, and 8. Squandered Icon. It also includes a foreword and a preface by the IOC Finance Commission chairman, Ng Ser Miang and Honorary IOC member, Vitali Smirnov, respectively. Table of 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

Book A Team of Their Own

Download or read book A Team of Their Own written by Seth Berkman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A December Stephen Curry Book Club Pick One of ESPN’s 25 Can’t Miss Books of 2019 “A feel-good story.”—New York Times Book Review “This isn’t simply a sports book. Rather, it’s a book about inspiring and courageous women who just happened to be hockey players.”—Korea Times The inspiring, unlikely story of the American, Canadian, South Korean and even North Korean women who joined together to form Korea’s first Olympic ice hockey team. Two weeks before the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea’s women’s hockey team was forced into a predicament that no president, ambassador or general had been able to resolve in the sixty-five years since the end of the Korean War. Against all odds, the group of young women were able to bring North and South Korea closer than ever before. The team was built for this moment. They had been brought together from across the globe and from a wide variety of backgrounds—concert pianist, actress, high school student, convenience store worker—to make history. Now the special kinship they had developed would guide them through the biggest challenge of their careers. Suddenly thrust into an international spotlight, they showed the powerful meaning of what a unified Korea could resemble. In A Team of Their Own, Seth Berkman goes behind the scenes to tell the story of these young women as they became a team amid immense political pressure and personal turmoil, and ultimately gained worldwide acceptance on a journey that encapsulates the truest meanings of sport and family.

Book The Politics of the Seoul Olympics

Download or read book The Politics of the Seoul Olympics written by Gari Keith Ledyard and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Olympic Cities  2012 and the Remaking of London

Download or read book Olympic Cities 2012 and the Remaking of London written by Iain MacRury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urban regeneration and social renewal. Comparing cities that have or will be hosting the event, it explores the political economy of the games and the changing role of the state in creating post-industrial metropolitan spaces. It evaluates the changing perceptions of the Olympic Games and the role of sport in the global media age in general and assesses the implication of 'mega-event' regeneration policies for local communities and their cultural, social and economic identities, with specific reference to east London and the Thames Gateway.

Book Report of the Evaluation Committee for the Seoul Olympics 1988

Download or read book Report of the Evaluation Committee for the Seoul Olympics 1988 written by Evaluation Committee for the Seoul Olympics 1988 and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seoul Olympic Arts Festival  1988

Download or read book Seoul Olympic Arts Festival 1988 written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Venue Media Facilities for 1988 Seoul Olympics

Download or read book Venue Media Facilities for 1988 Seoul Olympics written by Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond the Final Score

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor D. Cha
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780231154901
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Final Score written by Victor D. Cha and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad?Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport in Asia. Asian athletics are bound up with notions of national identity and nationalism, refracting political intent and the processes of globalization. For China, the Beijing Games introduced a liberalizing ethos that its authoritative regime could ignore only at its peril. Victor D. Cha-former director of Asian affairs for the White House-evaluates Beijing's contention with this pressure, considering the intense scrutiny China already faced on issues of counterproliferation, global warming, and free trade.

Book Mega Events and Mega Ambitions  South Korea   s Rise and the Strategic Use of the Big Four Events

Download or read book Mega Events and Mega Ambitions South Korea s Rise and the Strategic Use of the Big Four Events written by Yu-Min Joo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea’s strategic use of mega-events in its modern development. It examines the Summer Olympics (1988), the World Expo (1993), the FIFA World Cup (2002), and the Winter Olympics (2018) over the past 30 years of the country’s rapid growth, and across varying stages of economic and political development. It explains how mega-events helped to secure South Korea’s position on the international stage, boost nationalism, propel economic growth in export-oriented national companies, and build cities that accommodate – as well as represent – South Korea’s progress. It thereby highlights the broader implications for today’s global phenomenon of increasing reliance on mega-events as a catalyst for development, while the criticism that mega-events do more harm than good proliferates. The book is ideal for academics, policymakers, and those with an interest in mega-events and their role in the development of non-western countries.

Book The Seoul Olympics

Download or read book The Seoul Olympics written by Se-jik Pak and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korea and Major Powers After the Seoul Olympics

Download or read book Korea and Major Powers After the Seoul Olympics written by Hong Nack Kim and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: