The Seoulite

Hooray for Kim Yu-na! She has beat her own world-record at the 2010 Winter Olympic games in Vancouver with a score of 78.50. This puts her in first place in the running for the medals that will be decided in the last event to be held this Friday morning Korea time!

If you missed her phenomenal performance from a couple days ago, click on the video above. It’s in German and subtitled in Korean… because NBC won’t let international viewers watch online. Harumpf!

South Korea’s most famous figure skater Kim Yuna (김연아) broke a new world record in figure skating at the 2009 International Skating Union Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Vancouver, Canada.

She beat her own world record of 71.95 in the 2007 World Championship in Tokyo, Japan with a new world record score of 72.24 points.

She gets soooo many flowers and dolls thrown at the end of her performances by fans. I wonder how long the next skater actually has to wait before her routine!

Check out the winning performance here.

After her next performance, she won the gold medal at the championship... which is considered a good barometer for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which will also be held in Vancouver, Canada.

Here are the two best figure skaters in the world right now. Kim Yuna and Japan's Mao Asada. The height on Mao's jumps are already legendary.

Congrats Yuna! And it’s pronounced (Yuhn-ah).

Hi, I’m Sean Lim, an American expat living in South Korea.  This is my blog about becoming a Seoulite.

What is a Seoulite?
A ‘Seoulite’ (서울깍쟁이) is a citizen of Seoul, just as a ‘New Yorker’ is a citizen of New York. Of course the label ‘Seoulite’ doesn’t simply denote a place of residence [...]