{"id":5737,"date":"2015-10-28T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/sport-what-lies-ahead-for-koreas-forgotten-athletes\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:45:28","slug":"sport-what-lies-ahead-for-koreas-forgotten-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/sport-what-lies-ahead-for-koreas-forgotten-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport-What lies ahead for Korea&#039;s forgotten athletes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Hooyeon Kim SEOUL, Oct 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Weightlifting champion Kim Byeong-chan died alone, paralysed 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 programme as well as bidding to host international competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hooyeon Kim SEOUL, Oct 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Weightlifting champion Kim Byeong-chan died alone, paralysed 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737","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=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}