As North Korea participated in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, a ‘North Korean female cheering squad’ also appeared in the stands.
On the 19th, when the North Korean men’s soccer team played against Taiwan in the first match of Group F of the Asian Games preliminary round, the voices of North Korean women shouting loudly, “Win, win, let our player win,” were heard at the Zhejiang Province Normal University East Stadium in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China.
North Korean cheerleaders wore matching light purple shirts and hats and loudly waved balloons in their hands. They cheered the players with slogans that we can easily understand, such as “Good job, good job, our player is good” and “Win.”
North Korea unilaterally boycotted the 2021 Tokyo Olympics due to COVID-19 and was suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the suspension was lifted on December 31 last year.
North Korea, which has been appearing in international competitions in each sport little by little this year, dispatched close to 200 athletes to the Hangzhou Asian Games. According to MyInfo, the official information site of the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee, North Korea registered a total of 191 athletes, including 112 women and 79 men, in 18 sports.바카라
It has been five years since the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang that North Korea dispatched athletes to a multi-sports competition such as the Olympics and Asian Games.
It is the first time in five years that the North Korean female cheering squad has returned. The North Korean female cheering squad attracted attention by visiting and cheering for our country at the 2002 Busan Asian Games, the Daegu Summer Universiade in August 2003, the Incheon Asian Games in August 2014, and the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, North Korean cheering squads consisting of men and women were also seen.
The Hangzhou Asian Games will open on the 23rd, but the men’s soccer preliminary schedule began on this day.