And in what had to be an emotional moment, Sohn Kee-chung carried the Olympic torch in at the opening ceremony at the 1988 Olympics held in Seoul. Rocky Road Paperback Maby Rose Kent (Author) 17 ratings Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 1.46 8 Used from 1.46 3 New from 36.89 1 Collectible from 19.99 Paperback 7.99 20 Used from 1.76 4 New from 6.28 Ice cream warms the heart, no matter what the weather. He also became the chairman of the Korean Sporting Association. He was forced to use the Japanese name, Kitei Son, but he protested by refusing to sign his name. Rocky Road is written by Rose Kent and published by Knopf. Korea was under Japanese occupation when Sohn Kee-chung was forced to compete for the Japanese team at the 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, Germany. In Rocky Road, youll meet Tess, a true rocky road ice cream lover, her best friend Gabby, a lemon sorbet gal, and, Ma, who is crazy for coffee ice cream. At the medal ceremony, when the Japanese flag was raised instead of the Korean flag, he shed tears.Īfter the Japanese occupation ended, Sohn Kee-chung went on to coach many of Korea’s best marathoners. Rocky Road In Kimchi & Calamari, Joseph reads and later dreams about Sohn Kee-chung. Sohn Kee-chung won Korea’s first gold medal in the men’s marathon and broke the existing world record. And when reporters asked about his country, he would say that Korea was his motherland, not Japan. Instead he sketched the shape of Korea on the page. He was forced to use the Japanese name, Kitei Son, but he protested by refusing to sign his name. Korea was under Japanese occupation when Sohn Kee-chung was forced to compete for the Japanese team at the 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, Germany. ages 8-13) and ROCKY ROAD (Knopf Publishers, ages 8-12, coming June 2010).

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