Kayla Kim ‘25

Winter Term 2024

Short-Track Speed Skating in South Korean’s Culture and History

Kayla traveled to South Korea to further her research on short-track speed skating in South Korea. There, she watched the 500m and the mixed relay at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon. She will travel to Seoul, where she will meet with one of her contacts in order to get a more holistic view of how the impact of short-track in popular culture and how it came to be in Korea, and looked at how sports nationalism impacted South Korea’s growth.