"Kim Yeon-koung was originally about 186 centimeters tall, but he was tall again when he joined the club. He's still growing. I wonder if it's possible to get 1 meter and 90 centimeters. Anyway, it's a good thing for our Korean volleyball team. Kim Yeon-koung is a great player." (2005-2006 Women's Volleyball Hungkuk Life Demonstration Kyonggi kbs Broadcasting Announcer)
The height grew to 192cm. The 20-year-old expectant, who was resilient to the stretch, said, "A big rookie of female volleyball has appeared for a long time." And 16 years later, the World Volleyball Federation named Kim Yeon-koung "only one in a billion" and became a superstar who was so popular with World.
As well known, Kim Yeon-koung has since won the World Volleyball Championship as the number one player in the World. The Korean women’s volleyball team also performed well in succession, and despite these results, the men’s-oriented Sight was not going to change. The problem is that the Sight of such discrimination has led to real discrimination.
As the production team pointed out, the women's volleyball National player team was famous for receiving a gold medal in Incheon Asian Game in 2014 and receiving a 'Kimchi Stew' dinner. In addition, Kim Yeon-koung had to interpret directly due to lack of support for the Olympic women's volleyball team. The volleyball association's behavior that provided business class to all male volleyball teams participating in the international Kyonggi and only half of female athletes was a mere sense of self.
The intention to produce the "documentary InSight" and "documentary State Player", which advocated "the exciting story of six women sports who changed the Game of sports", was not merely to praise the six Korean female sports star players including Kim Yeon-koung. Rather, it was a rare documentary that dealt with their growth history, and at the same time had the history of the struggles of these and all the female athletes of the World, and the stone fastball and thoughtfulness that looked at the changes of the sports World and the World.
Lee Sung-mi, a comedian of kbs bond, who ran more like a junior because "I think I can get a seat if I do well," emphasized why "girl comedians do not buy themselves more than men." The story of six young gag women, including him, was a vivid, heartbreaking Earth second and struggle period that told how female gag women were famous and how they survived in a station where discriminatory Sights were more prevalent than anywhere else.
The 'documentary Mentory National player' side went one step further here. The Earth 2 and the struggle were not all that the women who had already won World and made their own in their events. While the problems of the reality that still exist are widespread discrimination and misogyny, they sought out the points of change and emphasized what the value of the change means to female athletes, women, and society as a whole.
Kim Yeon-koung, who gave birth to the buzzword "Kim Yeon-koung," said he wanted to change the trend of "going to the middle if you stay still." Kim Yeon-koung, who said, "I think that someone should talk, but if you do not talk, nobody knows," was simpler and more transparent.
There is another such player: Ji So-yun, a member of the Chelsea FC Wimin of England who plays on the overseas stage. Ji So-yun, who changed his record, including the youngest A-match appearance in Korean men's and women's soccer at the age of 15, and the youngest score (58 points), is an active player with a brilliant history, including the 2015 Player of the Year of the English Professional Football Association.
Such efforts have become a stepping stone to widening the overall pie: The WSL (England Women's Football Professional League) has seen an average crowd grow fivefold since its launch in 2011. The efforts of such female star players moved fans and led to changes in the industry as a whole and related systems.
A total of four Korean female athletes are now playing in the WSL, including a player who is trying to become a model for Korean female soccer players. As a result, both Kim Yeon-koung and Ji So-yun have been reborn as female players who have changed the World League beyond Korea.
It's a touching and revolutionary chant from United States of America women's national football team captain Meghan Rafino. Megan Rafino, the flagship star of World Women's Football, has focused attention on her 2019 team-mates and the Football Federation by filing a lawsuit claiming the same "Kyonggi equal wage" as male players.
Megan Rafino, who had previously refused to even invite Trump to the White House, who is notorious for misogyny and racism, has struggled to raise the wages of female athletes who are as high as 10% compared to male soccer players.
The crew could not miss such a structural problem. Pak Se-ri Korea Women's Golf National player team coach was a pioneer who surpassed 'equal play, equal Wang Feifei'. Pak Se-ri, who wrote myths after winning the US Open in 1998, was the so-called Gamechanger who, unlike United States of America, which has six times the difference in 2019, put the prize money of the women's golf tournament above the men's tournament and toppled the gender barrier.
The production team, which has inspired a good example of 'equal play, equal Wang Feifei', then refers to the structural discrimination that is prevalent in the sports World in various ways.
First of all, it is a rare issue for female leaders: among the National players in the Summer Olympics, only two women are coach Hyun Jung-hwa of women's table tennis and coach Jeon Ju-won of women's basketball. The problem is even worse if you broaden your horizons to the entire sports World.
According to the Korea Sports Council in 2020, there were 22,213 men among the athletic leaders, with only 4386 women. It is a reality that is far from the 2018 IOC gender equality report that 'coachs are selected on behalf of gender balance and IOC executive committee members should be equal to men and women over 30%.'
In this regard, Pak Se-ri, who led the Olympic team twice, said that the juniors of the golf World were the unrivaled beings cheered by all the female athletes in the sports World. You can't see it even if you want to, and the role model itself is slim. The production team's view that discriminatory and misogynistic Sight of the media played a big role in creating such an environment seems to be undisputed.
'Asian mermaid Choi Eun-hee, table tennis goddess Hyun Jung-hwa, Sydney Olympic Game, Air rifle Kang Cho Hyun, London archery goddess Gibo Bae, rhythmic gymnastics fairy hand serial, volleyball beauty corps' and so on.
Both Pak Se-ri and Kim Yeon-koung, who said, "I think men have been more exposed and exposed to the air," or "I always put on a beautiful corps, I do not say a handsome corps." Such a masculine Sight has also been powerful in typing female athletes.
It is an old prejudice: even Dr. Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, said, "It is ugly, bad and inappropriate for a woman to participate in the Olympics." Over 100 years since the launch of the modern Olympics, female athletes have faced such discriminatory signs, and six people, including Kim Yeon-koung and Pak Se-ri, have not been free from it. The long-awaited and discriminatory media questions of the production team were close to violence.
So, "I can do more fields. I did not find it, I did not try, but I can do everything. "The confident advice of" Game Changer "Pak Se-ri was enough to convey impressions and hopes to women who live in their contemporaries.
And, the production team's thoughtful message continued to the end. At the end of the broadcast, the production team carefully reflected each face of proud female athletes who recorded the first time in the Olympics, including Park Bong-sik, the only female athlete among the 52 athletes at the 1948 London Olympics. All of them were 'Gamechangers' who changed the World by jumping into the events that were difficult to try.