At the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, North and South Korea formed a unified Korean women’s ice hockey team. Two members of that team share their experience:
One of the biggest stories from the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics was the integration of players from North and South Korea and the creation of the unified Korean women’s ice hockey team.
"Two weeks before the Olympics — that's really close," forward Randi Griffin says. "You're in maintenance mode at that point, and just trying to mentally prepare yourself for this big event that you've been gearing up for. Amid the disappointment, there were news reports of unrest in South Korea. Most younger South Koreans welcomed the merger. Most older South Koreans couldn’t believe their nation had agreed to collaborate with the North. The South Korean players feared that the focus would be on politics, not on hockey, and that they’d already become political pawns.Just two weeks before their first Olympic game, players for the South Korean team met their new teammates.
On Feb. 4, 2018, after a week and a half of practice, the unified team was escorted by a police caravan to a 3,000 seat stadium in Incheon. There, they’d play an exhibition game against Sweden. When the tickets had gone on sale a week earlier, they sold out in minutes. "I think seeing the crowds and the protests, seeing that in person, it was kind of, I would say, an awakening," Griffin says.
"It's not like, 'Woooh! They came here with their pom poms, because they love hockey!'"Griffin says."Like, no. They probably have really awful lives. And I'm not going to stand here and act like they're free people who came here and are doing this out of the pureness of their love for the sport or for Korea. Not at all."
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