제41회 지바 세계탁구선수권대회(1991) 남북단일팀 참가에 관한 연구

초록

This study looked into participation of a single South-North team in the 41st Chiba World Table Tennis Championships. Giving up its assertion greatly in order to improve the relationship between South and North Korea and to resume dialogue between them, South Korea suggested formation of a single South-North table tennis team. North Korea accepted the proposal of South Korea and therefore, a single South-North team was organized. The Korea Table Tennis Association supported use of Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund in order to appropriate expense necessary for participation of a single South-North team. Project for participation of a single South-North team was recognized as 'a cooperative project performed by both South and North Korean people' and thus, it was supported by Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund (KRW 250,000,000). The Korean Residents Union in Japan and the Pro-Pyeongyang Federation of Korean Residents in Japan agreed joint cheering and welcome ceremony holding of international game opened in Japan, which played a part in creating a reconciliation atmosphere in the Korean societies being at feud with each other for a long time. Joint training of a single team in total 3 times gave a help for South and North Korean players to overcome sense of difference and to improve fighting power, and also greatly contribute to be ranked third overall including the single team's winning of women's team event.

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