Yuna Kim

Bijoux said:

I have read some of this but not being in the skating loop on boards for 3 years, I did not know ALL of this like a korean would or uber fan might. Good for Yu-Na. I like her even more now (as a person). Hooray for her. As I said, and as I think even moreso now, she has done all she can in skating in terms off medals, though there is always room to improve. Her Turin performance screamed to me anyway... I don't want to be here! After seeing that photo of her on the massage/pt bench, yikes! I would not blame her if she moved to an Island with no ice for a while.

My point is (former social worker here) THINK what she can do with the money and influence for years to come. It will likely be a while before the next oly gold medalist comes from her home. I am pleased to read how caring she is. I think this helps with her success on the ice, too. Judges admire the Scott Hamiltons of the skate world.

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cooper said:

Festa on the Ice 2010 rehearsal photos

http://sportsphoto.news.naver.com/themePhotoList.nhn?id=18441&currentSection=220

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jian10 said:

Thank you for the photos! I haven't seen any fluff at YouTube yet. It seems like they are more quiet than the last year.hwell:

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Olympia said:

I'm having such a good time looking at the links you all have provided. One of the great aspects of this whole story is how her success has affected Brian Orser. He probably thought his skating career was drawing to a close, and here he has an entire new career as a coach--and bingo, he's one of the most admired people in South Korea. How lovely to see that ceremony in Seoul granting him honorary citizenship of the city.

The comment by Hillary Clinton and the letter from YuNa to Secretary Clinton are wonderful. A handwritten letter! What a beautiful gesture of both humility and dignity. This is an example of what the Olympic movement can lead to, a moment of reaching out among three countries.

As for what YuNa is capable of in the future, she seems like a serious enough person that she will try to make the best of her fame and achievement to benefit others as well as herself and her family. There's precedent for that. A pioneering athlete in Kenya is a runner named Kip Keino. If he didn't win Kenya's first Olympic gold, he won one of the first. Today he runs a ranch where he cares for orphaned children, using his own funds and what donations he can persuade out of people. He's also built a school. All of Kenya has become a beneficiary of his Olympic glory. Of course, Korea is in much better shape as a country than Kenya is. But YuNa will have plenty of opportunity to help others either in her own country or in the world at large, and my instincts tell me that she will seize that opportunity.

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prettykeys said:

Yes, YuNa will have the potential to do more. I am glad your ignorance regarding YuNa's character and her history of philanthropy has been corrected. I hope your ignorance regarding her, and other things, will continue to lessen; please continue to visit and read this thread.

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cooper said:

Ohhh I found this on Yuna's forum............there's peace after all!

Yu-na Voted Most Favored Korean Celebrity in Japan

South Korea's figure-staking queen Kim Yu-na was voted the number one Korean celebrity in Japan in terms of their "feeling intimate" while her Japanese archrival Asada Mao topped the survey among South Koreans for the same category, a joint poll by South Korea's Hankook Ilbo and Japan's Yomiuri newspaper revealed Saturday.

Kim topped the poll as 50 percent of Japanese respondents picked her, followed by Lee Seung-yeop (21 percent), a baseball player, currently playing for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan, tailed by Bae Yong-joon (18 percent), an actor.

In Korea, people voted Asada Mao (43 percent), followed by figure skater Ando Miki (18 percent), who has a tie with Suzuki Ichiro, a major league player.

The Internet-based JPNews, which carried the news, didn't specify how many people in the two countries participated in the poll.

In the poll, respondents were allowed to choose multiple favorites ― up to three, and celebrities are from those in entertainment and sports.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/natio.../113_64356.html

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ehdtkqorl123 said:

At the press conf after the show, Yu-Na said she will resume her training in Toronto after late May no matter what decision she will make.

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I like the way we put photos as a hot link so that we can see them all at once without clicking all the photos.
After all, we are going to click all the photos, aren't we?

Anyway I'm back from the show...
I don't know from where to start, What can I tell you with my short English. It won't be able to convey 1/10 of what really happened there and the bonding among the fans and the skaters.

Having not enough time, forgive me for not telling about the other skaters.
Okay, to make it short, Chan didn't disappoint me as always and I always think he's artistic. But I hope those who don't feel him that way will also agree on that having great skating skills can make the audience feel purely amused.
Joubert was the best of all with his Sandstorm. Even old non-FS fans clapped so hard when he and Kulik was skating.(you know, in Korea, old people are not usually FS fans but mostly the young people enjoy figure skating.) I hope he come to the show next time as a default option.
Verner was also very enjoyable. He made the audience laugh with his cheerful performance.
Other skaters, as they have come to Yuna show before, so I won't talk much. Kulik and Bourne literally rocked the house back to back. What more can I say. Videos don't reflect the audience's roaring sound not even 1/10.

Korpi, though got a big applause from the audience, got much more applause after her skating. I liked both of her programs. So did Z/Z and D/S.
MJ's graceful program reminded me of Yuna's reflection. I was really surprised to see her improvement in one year. She had the speed, much more power than before, and most of all she was very enjoyable to watch. (I didn't have to consciously clap.) Good for her.

I can't think of many things right now. Actually I just came here to share some little thing about what happened a few years ago.

Well, to tell the result first, I felt she will be loved for a long long time. I was going to meet my friends but since they were all in the exit of the arena where a bus was waiting for the skaters after the show, so I happened to see her off at the exit. There were lots of funny moments with the other skaters, but when Yuna appeared and got on the bus, they who have been waiting for her went crazy but their behavior was not like that of a typical idol fan girls.
Of course they were screaming Yuna all the way until the bus left, but they sang a song for her, which was not a fanatical and blind one, but a very witty and could feel their love or bonding, or I don't know how to describe this feeling, but it was not a blind faith, (I can't just like blind faith in their idol kinda thing.) it was more like witty and refined, could feel the bonding and show their feeling toward the skater. I was just so impressed.

They sang the witty song for her 3 times or so, and everyone was clapping and laughing during waiting for the departure. Even the middle aged residents there who came out for a walk joined the group and said the fans behavior make them put smiles on their faces.

Yuna opened the small window and waved hands to them and shot finger guns to them, which she had to reload several times on their request.
What I felt there was that her attitude. Though the other skaters got cheered by the fans a lot, she was getting all the attention since she appeared, while all the other skaters were in the same bus. So after a while of having some enjoyable time with her fans, she let Patrick wave to the fans through the small window open in her seat. And then Joubert, (I can't remember well, and several skaters waved to fans through the small window in Yuna's seat), so that her fellow skaters could also get cheered once again.
And after that when I got back home, I heard Yuna donated USD 45,000 of the profits from the show through her agency for the victims of the broken warship of Korea..

Well, just wanted to share this with you friends. She deserves to be love for a long time. That was what I felt tonight. Good night.

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parma said:

Yuna just donated the entire pay from her appearance in Festa on Ice 2010, Korean government's public health agency responsible for running a campaign for improving welfare of the physically challanged people in Korea said today.

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