The decision to stage the World Athletics championships in South Korea was all part of an effort to push the sport into a new market.
Track and field has only a small following in the country, not least because no South Korean has ever won a medal at the event.
Apparently the reason for that might have something to do with chopsticks. Let me explain.
Daegu's Taekyeung University is one of many South Korean seats of learning where sitting down to play computer games is taken very seriously.
Since 2003 it has had a department dedicated to them. A place where the finger skills of hundreds of teenagers are honed with a serious objective in mind. More...
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Track and field has only a small following in the country, not least because no South Korean has ever won a medal at the event.
Apparently the reason for that might have something to do with chopsticks. Let me explain.
Daegu's Taekyeung University is one of many South Korean seats of learning where sitting down to play computer games is taken very seriously.
Since 2003 it has had a department dedicated to them. A place where the finger skills of hundreds of teenagers are honed with a serious objective in mind. More...
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