Both Park Jong-kil and Choi yoon-hui - former athletes who both rose to the top post of sports administration in the past respectively - vowed to bring hope to politics as they had done at the 1982 and 1986 Asian Games, only to eventually disappoint the public once again.
A 19-year-old South Korean claimed a senior world title and came close
to breaking two world records on the third day of the International
Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Tashkent in
Uzbekistan.