National Liberation Day Road to Son Kee-Chung Athletic Park Seoul 4K HDR
I hope you can understand more about Korean history through this walking video. Thanks as always! The National Liberation Day of Korea is a holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in both South and North Korea. It commemorates Victory over Japan Day, when the United States and the Allied powers liberated Korea from 35 years of Japanese rule. Son Kee-chung (Korean: 손기정, August 29, 1912 – November 15, 2002) was an Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first ethnic Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was a Korean national, but he had to compete as a member of the Japanese delegation because Korea was under Japanese colonization at the time. Son set an Olympic record of 2 hours 29 minutes 19.2 seconds. For winning the marathon, Son was to have received an ancient Corinthian helmet from the 8th century BC, which was discovered at Olympia, Greece, and later purchased by a newspaper in Athens to give as an Olympic award. However, the IOC believed that presenting such a valuable gift to a runner would violate its amateur rules. The helmet was placed in a Berlin museum and remained there for 50 years. It was finally presented to Son in 1986. Son donated the helmet to the National Museum of Korea, which designated it as the 904th and only Western National Treasure. There was initially a plan to award replicas of this helmet to the winners of the 2006 Son Kee-chung marathon, but they eventually got only a chance to wear a replica. Son competed under the Japanese name Kitei Son, as Korea was under the colonial rule of the Japanese Empire during his career. Filmed: August 5, 2022, 7:45PM (pre-recorded) Weather: Sunny ? Temperature: 31℃ / 87℉
I hope you can understand more about Korean history through this walking video. Thanks as always! The National Liberation Day of Korea is a holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in both South and North Korea. It commemorates Victory over Japan Day, when the United States and the Allied powers liberated Korea from 35 years of Japanese rule. Son Kee-chung (Korean: 손기정, August 29, 1912 – November 15, 2002) was an Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first ethnic Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was a Korean national, but he had to compete as a member of the Japanese delegation because Korea was under Japanese colonization at the time. Son set an Olympic record of 2 hours 29 minutes 19.2 seconds. For winning the marathon, Son was to have received an ancient Corinthian helmet from the 8th century BC, which was discovered at Olympia, Greece, and later purchased by a newspaper in Athens to give as an Olympic award. However, the IOC believed that presenting such a valuable gift to a runner would violate its amateur rules. The helmet was placed in a Berlin museum and remained there for 50 years. It was finally presented to Son in 1986. Son donated the helmet to the National Museum of Korea, which designated it as the 904th and only Western National Treasure. There was initially a plan to award replicas of this helmet to the winners of the 2006 Son Kee-chung marathon, but they eventually got only a chance to wear a replica. Son competed under the Japanese name Kitei Son, as Korea was under the colonial rule of the Japanese Empire during his career. Filmed: August 5, 2022, 7:45PM (pre-recorded) Weather: Sunny ? Temperature: 31℃ / 87℉