According to South Korean media reports on November 1, South Korean archery coach Park Choe-soon has submitted his resignation, citing personal reasons.
Park Chae-soon began coaching the Gwangju Archery Team in 2003 and is the head coach of famous players Chifube and Yasan. This summer, Park Choe-soon led the team to the Tokyo Olympics, and Ansan alone won three gold medals. After the World Championships in September, Park Expressed his intention to resign.
In 2016, Park Choe Soon began to become the coach of the Korean archery team and the head coach of the Korean archery team at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, leading the team to win 4 gold medals, of which Ansan alone won three gold medals. The Korean Archery Association has now appointed Choi Seung-sil, director of the Archery Association, as a coach. Choi Seung-sil is the coach of the South Korean team at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games and the 2016 Rio Olympics. The Korean Archery Association hopes to conclude the selection of coaches as soon as possible.
South Korean media said that the personal reason that Park Chae-soon said in his resignation should be that he will go to China to teach.
Archery entered the Olympic Games in 1900, but after the 1920 Olympics, archery was not an Olympic sport for 52 years. Archery returned to the Olympics in 1972, and since then the South Korean team has won 27 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze in subsequent Olympic Games, making it the country with the most gold medals. At this summer's Tokyo Olympics, the South Korean team won 4 gold medals in all five events. The Chinese archery team won the gold medal in the women's recurve bow individual competition by Zhang Juanjuan at the 2008 Olympic Games, and the Chinese team also won 6 silver and 2 bronze medals in previous Olympic Games.
There are many young players in the Chinese archery team, and if Park Caishun can really coach, it will be good news for the Chinese team that lacks experience in the competition. At the same time, the South Korean archery team has a very mature technical and tactical system for many years, and if Park Choi Soon can bring these things to the Chinese team, it will be a great benefit to the preparation for the Paris Olympic Games. At the 2019 World Championships, the Chinese men's team defeated South Korea to win the championship, but the overall performance of the Chinese archery team at the Tokyo Olympic Games was flat, which may also directly make the Chinese team have the idea of hiring foreign teachers.
Many of China's national teams have foreign coaches, including the former King's Division Short Track Speed Skating Team, the current head coach is The South Korean Kim Sun-tae, who led the team to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and An Hyun-so, who served as an assistant coach, is even more famous, once the Six Golden Kings of the Winter Olympics. Previously, Jin Changbo served as the head coach of the Chinese women's hockey team and achieved remarkable results. Che Fangen, Cui Yinze and other foreign football coaches have also coached in the Chinese team.