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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.