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Article: Korean Kang set to shine for Sapura
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- May 31, 2003
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Terence Netto
New Straits Times
05-31-2003
Korean Kang set to shine for Sapura
Byline: Terence Netto
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: Sport
KANG Keon-wook was playing soccer in his hometown of Taegu when a talent scout told him - in the brook-no-dissent manner that marks relations between those in charge and their wards in Confucian society - that he should try his hand at hockey.
Kang was then a 14-year-old schoolboy in the mid-1980s when South Korea was on a quest for sporting excellence that won them distinctions for hosting the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Olympics, both in the staging and in performance.
Before that, able-bodied Koreans just out of adolescence were being scrutinised ...
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