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89 _ Sports and Leisure<br />

Others<br />

Basketball seems to be the latest<br />

craze, especially among the younger<br />

generation. It is not uncommon to see<br />

groups of kids hanging around the nets<br />

after school and on weekends sporting<br />

their hi-tops and baggy shorts trying to<br />

make everyone else look bad. The<br />

enthusiasm in basketball is seen everywhere:<br />

<strong>from</strong> the professional Korean<br />

Basketball League to the start of an<br />

annual 3-on-3 tournament at the<br />

Hangang Riverside Park. A professional<br />

basketball tournament was organized in<br />

Korea in 1997. Currently, ten teams are<br />

competing for a league championship<br />

every year.<br />

Do you Know?<br />

The strongest man under the<br />

heavens is Korean. Actually, that<br />

may not be true, but Korean<br />

ssireum fans would like to think<br />

so. Ssireum is a traditional<br />

Korean form of wrestling believed<br />

to have a history of about 1,500<br />

years. In a ring of sand seven<br />

meters wide, two competitors<br />

grab each other by a sash tied<br />

around both the waist and upper<br />

thigh and try to throw or push the<br />

other to the ground. A professional<br />

league was formed in 1983 and<br />

now wrestlers are divided into<br />

weight classes. A national tournament<br />

is held eight times a year<br />

and the winner of the unlimited<br />

class division is given the title<br />

Strongest Man Under the<br />

Heavens.

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