TY - JOUR
T1 - Reluctant mediator : Hong Kong, the two Koreas and the Tokyo Olympics
AU - BRIDGES, Brian
N1 - The author received the financial support of the Lingnan University Social Sciences Programme, project DS05A2, which enabled him to visit the Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne as part of the research for this article.
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - This essay examines the complex, and ultimately unsuccessful, negotiations between North and South Korea, undertaken with the encouragement of the International Olympic Committee during 1962–63 to form a united Korean team to participate in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. In particular, it focuses on the role of Hong Kong, chosen as a ‘neutral’ site for the two Korean delegations to meet. It shows how the IOC's optimism for a ‘sporting’ solution was to founder on continued mutual suspicion and recriminations between the two Koreas and how the Hong Kong government's reluctance to get involved, the US political intervention, and North Korean participation in the GANEFO Games were all to complicate the process.
AB - This essay examines the complex, and ultimately unsuccessful, negotiations between North and South Korea, undertaken with the encouragement of the International Olympic Committee during 1962–63 to form a united Korean team to participate in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. In particular, it focuses on the role of Hong Kong, chosen as a ‘neutral’ site for the two Korean delegations to meet. It shows how the IOC's optimism for a ‘sporting’ solution was to founder on continued mutual suspicion and recriminations between the two Koreas and how the Hong Kong government's reluctance to get involved, the US political intervention, and North Korean participation in the GANEFO Games were all to complicate the process.
U2 - 10.1080/09523360601101352
DO - 10.1080/09523360601101352
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0952-3367
VL - 24
SP - 375
EP - 391
JO - International Journal of the History of Sport
JF - International Journal of the History of Sport
IS - 3
ER -