{"id":81382,"date":"2013-07-10T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=81382"},"modified":"2013-07-10T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:00:39","slug":"what-you-didnt-know-about-the-south-korean-water-ski-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=81382","title":{"rendered":"What you Didn&#8217;t Know About the South Korean Water-Ski Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They\u2019ll do anything to get on the water \u2014 give them skis and they\u2019re ready to go. In fact, pro skiers are practically legends to them. No, this isn\u2019t the Orlando water-ski scene, unless you consider South Korea the Orlando of Asia. John Mommer, marketing director and team manager for HO Sports and Will Asher, who WATERSKI named male slalom skier of the year in 2011 and 2013, found a country bursting with enthusiasm for water skiing \u2014 not unlike the \u201990s ski-club scene in the United States. The South Koreans they encountered had a burning desire to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/waterskimag.com\/features\/2013\/07\/09\/what-you-didnt-know-about-the-south-korean-water-ski-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ll do anything to get on the water \u2014 give them skis and they\u2019re ready to go. In fact, pro skiers are practically legends to them. No, this isn\u2019t the Orlando water-ski scene, unless you consider South Korea the Orlando of Asia. John Mommer, marketing director and team manager for HO Sports and Will Asher, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-water-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81383,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81382\/revisions\/81383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}