An expensive sport in a poor country, how does the people there get to play hockey? Where do they get the funds to attend & participate in the WC? Where do they get the funds for equipment and etc.?
2007-10-20 09:02:16 · 5 answers · asked by Joe H 1 in Sports ➔ Hockey
North Korea's a communist country so I would assume that they do their books similar to the way the former USSR did theirs. They just pick a group of kids and train them for international competition. That would just be my guess.
2007-10-20 09:05:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a small elite who get to take part in order to represent the country. Mizuno donates a lot of gear to North Korean athletes as a goodwill gesture and they do manufacture some hockey gear. I imagine the rest of their gear comes by way of Japan as well. The amazing thing is, they can actually play a pretty respectable game of hockey!
2007-10-20 16:28:00 · answer #2 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ice Hockey is an olympic event so it gets funding simply because it will get exposure.
Its not about having fun, or recreation its simply about trying to improve their sad reputation through international sport.
North Korea also spends millions and millions of dollars supporting a HUGE army while millions of people starve.
2007-10-20 16:12:20 · answer #3 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If their government wants them to play (and they do) they will come up with the money for all that's necessary. When they compete with other countries and with the Olympics, the gov't wants to look good - competeing with the world, essentially.
2007-10-20 16:13:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
north korea doesn't care about its citizens. all they care about is what can benefit the gov't and kim jung ill.
2007-10-20 16:43:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋