GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — When the Koreas suddenly began the push to form a joint Olympic team in women's hockey, angry parents of South Korean players considered public demonstrations against the notion. They thought the plan would cost their daughters time on the ice — and, just as important, put them right in the crossfire of inter-Korean politics.
Once the Pyeongchang Olympics opened, though, attitudes started changing.
As Team Korea becomes one of the hottest newsmakers in the Winter Games, their daughters are drawing crowds of spectators and journalists who want to know more about a squad at the center of rare rapprochement moves between the two rival Koreas split along the world's most heavily fortified border for 70 years.