{"id":5733,"date":"2015-10-28T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/what-lies-ahead-for-koreas-forgotten-athletes\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:45:24","slug":"what-lies-ahead-for-koreas-forgotten-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/what-lies-ahead-for-koreas-forgotten-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"What lies ahead for Korea&#039;s forgotten athletes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lies-ahead-koreas-forgotten-athletes-090043576--spt.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-28T090043Z_1006980001_LYNXNPEB9R0D0_RTROPTP_2_CSPORTS-US-SPORT-SOUTHKOREA-INJURIES.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"Kim So-young, a former gymnast who was paralysed from the neck down, talks to former Olympic gold medalist Jang Mi-ran at her office in Seoul\" align=\"left\" title=\"Kim So-young, a former gymnast who was paralysed from the neck down, talks to former Olympic gold medalist Jang Mi-ran at her office in Seoul\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>By Hooyeon Kim SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; Weightlifting champion Kim Byeong-chan died alone, paralyzed and penniless after a motorcycle accident cut short his career, and for some former athletes his demise is a consequence of South Korea&#8217;s ruthless pursuit of sporting excellence. The limited social safety net for athletes who get seriously injured, or who fail to make the grade, is a concern for many sportsmen and women in South Korea, a country which arrived on the global stage with the hosting of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Park Chung-hee&#8217;s regime of the 1960s saw sport as an avenue to raise Korea&#8217;s global profile and gain legitimacy at home, and poured huge amounts of money into creating an elite athlete program as well as bidding to host international competitions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hooyeon Kim SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; Weightlifting champion Kim Byeong-chan died alone, paralyzed and penniless after a motorcycle accident cut short his career, and for some former athletes his demise is a consequence of South Korea&#8217;s ruthless pursuit of sporting excellence. The limited social safety net for athletes who get seriously injured, or who fail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-5733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-28T090043Z_1006980001_LYNXNPEB9R0D0_RTROPTP_2_CSPORTS-US-SPORT-SOUTHKOREA-INJURIES.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}