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In case I couldn't make a living as a rugby player, I was planning to live off my savings for two years. I didn't blindly and unconditionally pursue that dream, though.
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I've dreamed of becoming a professional rugby player since my teenage years, so I was willing to take the risk. Were you afraid of an uncertain future after leaving your stable job to join Team Korea? My middle name Jin is my Korean name that reflects my Korean identity. People often consider me a foreigner because of my appearance, but I've always considered myself Korean. I've spent most of my life abroad, but I was born in Korea and have spent every summer vacation in Seoul with my mother. It was because of the attachment I have for my mother's country. Why did you decline joining the Hong Kong team and instead contact the Korea Rugby Union? held an interview in Seoul with Kim in February on why he joined the Korean national team and his plans and goals for rugby in the country, and held follow-up questions recently via phone and e-mail for more updates. The following year, he left his job in Shanghai to join the Korean national team, and in 2017, he became a Korean citizen. Kim declined the offer and instead contacted the Korea Rugby Union. The squad offered him a roster spot and discussed the potential for him to receive residency in the city-state to play for Hong Kong internationally. In Shanghai, Kim continued to play rugby as a hobby and attracted the attention of the Hong Kong rugby team in 2015. After graduating from college in 2014, he started working at a sports management company in Shanghai. under-17 national team in high school and played for his school while attending University of California-Berkeley. Kim Jin is one of the national squad's 12 players and the team's first naturalized member. His English name is Andre Jin Coquillard, and he was born in 1991 to an American father and a Korean mother. The achievement was remarkable considering that Korea has fewer than 1,000 registered rugby players. 24 last year, the national team earned a berth in the Tokyo Olympics at an Asian qualifier in Incheon by defeating Hong Kong, 12-7.
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Rugby was removed as an official event for 92 years after the 1924 Paris Olympics, but returned for the 2016 edition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Korean national team would have competed for the first time in the Olympics. July 27 this year would have been a significant day in Korean rugby history had the Tokyo Summer Olympics not been postponed due to COVID-19. Korean rugby player Kim Jin told in an interview what he hopes to accomplish in the Summer Olympics.