South defeats North Korea in Olympic archery

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South defeats North Korea in Olympic archery

After win over Kang Un Ju, Chang Hye-jin advances to win gold for South

John G. Grisafi August 12, 2016

South defeats North Korea in Olympic archery

Spliced feather 0002 - Alexander Kastler [CC BY-SA]

South Korea scored a victory over North Korea in a head-to-head archery match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday, the official website of the 2016 games revealed.

South Korean archer Chang Hye-jin defeated Kang Un Ju of North Korea in the 1/8 elimination round of women’s individual archery.

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John G. Grisafi

John G. Grisafi is an analyst and Korean linguist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Having previously worked as an analyst for the United States Army in South Korea and studied Korean at the Defense Language Institute, he is now majoring in East Asian Languages & Civilization and History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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