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...even pick up a club until he was 19. The fourth of eight children in his family, he finished his mandatory 18-month stint in the Korean army at the age of 21, the same age Woods was when he won his first major. His father Yang Han-joon, a poor farmer from Jeju, far from encouraging him to play (as Tiger's late father Earl did), actively discouraged him. Han-joon said that "golf was a rich man's game played for fun, and that he had no business playing it because it couldn't help him earn...
...started practicing on his own during the evenings, and the game took hold of him. Even after his father forced him to quit and take a higher-paying construction job, Yang's interest in golf persisted, and he would practice without his father's knowledge. ("Who knows," Han-joon says now with a laugh, "maybe if I had encouraged him, he wouldn't have played.) Incredibly, he effectively taught himself how to master the notoriously difficult sport on Jeju's double-decked driving ranges, not taking formal lessons until he turned...
...USPGA wasn't the first time Yang had beaten Woods: he had done the same at the 2006 HSBC Open in Shanghai. Yang's father believes that was the critical stepping stone to the victory on Sunday. "He beat Tiger once. He knew he could beat Tiger again," Han-joon tells TIME. "But more importantly, he thought he had nothing to lose in a match against the world-famous Woods." (Watch a video of Tiger Woods playing Wii Golf...
...film by Zach Braff among others—is scheduled for limited release in April. Clearly inspired by this anthological approach, directors Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Leos Carax (“Lovers on the Bridge”) and Bong Joon-Ho (“The Host”) have written and directed “Tokyo!”: a collection of three short films all set in the namesake Japanese city, whose common thread is the relentless push of human extremes against the edges of reality.For Gondry, that extreme...
...melancholy pervasive in this landscape. However, the heated social and political factors that fuel the destruction of the Bronx are of marginal importance to Mun. Though her character lives underneath the rubble of this dying city, Mun’s semi-autobiographical tale highlights inner turmoil over external destruction. Joon and her parents leave Korea at the behest of her mother, who intends to forage a better life in the United States. But disaster seems to be the family’s travelling companion, and as her mother’s mental instability becomes crippling, Joon’s father...