[신간] From Lim Chun-ae to Ahn Se-young… ‘Stories of women who play athletes in Korea’

A certified accountant father’s struggle to raise full-time children… ‘There was no childcare in my career.’

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Se-won Lee = ▲ Stories of women who play athletes in Korea = Written by Lee Yu-mi.

It tells the story of female athletes who overcame limitations and restrictions and rewrote Korean sports history.

The book covers everything from Se-Ri Pak, who escaped danger by stepping into a pond barefoot and hitting a golf ball at Black Wolf Run Golf Club in Wisconsin, USA, in July 1998 and winning the US Women’s Open trophy, to Se-Ri Pak, who won the gold medal in the women’s badminton singles at the Paris Olympics in France in August this year. We highlight 29 female stars, including Ahn Se-young, who spoke out about the absurdity of the sports world.

The story behind Lim Chun-ae, who set the record of becoming the first Korean athlete to win three Asian Games gold medals at the 1986 Seoul Asian Games, is also interesting.

At the time, it was reported that she only ate ramen and exercised, and Lim Chun-ae was called the ‘ramen girl’, and ‘ramen fighting spirit’ became her trademark. However, the book explains that in reality, Coach Kim Beon-il, who coached Lim Chun-ae, said that ‘Lim Chun-ae ran well even after eating ramen’, but this was distorted to mean that she only ate ramen and ran because her family was in trouble.

The author, who has been on the field of competition for about 25 years as a sports reporter, said that Korean female athletes have written history by confronting prejudice, and added, “If there are people who are still hesitant in front of a big wall, the challenges of the athletes in the book will help them overcome the wall.” “I hope it becomes a seed of courage,” he said.

Brainstore. Page 280.

▲ There was no childcare in my career = Written by Chonghee Lee.

A certified public accountant and father of a 32-month-old daughter points out the structural contradictions in Korean society that make it difficult to raise a baby, based on two years of experience raising a child full-time.

The author, who began taking care of the baby on behalf of his wife who returned to work, is tired of the endless care and finally recognizes the social environment that is hostile to parents with babies, including the no-kids zone.

The author, who was angry at subway congestion while people with disabilities were protesting demanding the right to travel, confesses that the moment he put his child in a baby carriage and went out using public transportation, he realized that he could not be angry at the disabled people’s group that staged a subway protest. .

As low birth rates have emerged as a social problem, there has been talk of offering 100 million won if a child is born, but the author also questions this response.

If you take a break from your career to raise a child and continue to engage in economic activities while earning the average wage of a non-regular worker, the economic effect of having a child could be around minus 1.4 billion won.

The author questions whether it is truly possible to balance work and family, and to raise children and work at the same time.

“Everyone only has 24 hours, but it is contradictory to take care of work and family at the same time. (omitted) What I felt while raising a child is that parenting is a job that is entirely one person’s responsibility, and perhaps more.”

Wings of Knowledge. Page 320.

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2024/11/15 08:00 Sent