History lesson
The skis, 160 centimeters (60 inches) long and 7 centimeters wide at the center, have four holes in the middle for laces to be tied with the skier’s feet, similar in form to a pair of 5,200-year-old skis found in Sweden.
The Korean skis were discovered in 1912 in North Hamgyong, a region bordering China, when the Korean Peninsula was under Japanese rule. They are owned by the Japanese Memorial Museum of Skiing, which lent the skis to the resort for an exhibition that will run until the end of the Olympics in March. [YONHAP]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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