by Bruce
The reason the Korean men do not have the same level of success may in some way be attributable to the two years compulsory military training they are forced to undertake at a key age in their golfing development whereas the girls only need to do it 'if they so desire'

by Gene Smith
Sorry, but the article on the success of women golfers from Korea doesn't help---if parenting were the cause, why haven't the men golfers from Korea equally succeeded? And why haven't golfers from other countries in the world where strict parental oversight is common been so successful?
Truth is, American parents are as "pushy" as those from any country when it comes to producing high quality performance from their gifted children---
Also, not everyone has the talent to excel in a chosen sport, no matter how much "pushing" they get.
Got to be some other reason.

by Joe Bertola
It would seem logical that if any country that is enormously overrepresented statistically in a sport, the talent pool in that sport must be thin. Otherwise, pushy parenting or whatever else it is wouldn't work.

by Martha Huntley
Excellent column...interesting and I learned something! Thanks!

by Jimin
Martha Huntly, if you did find this column interesting and you learned something - then I guess you weren't too smart to begin with.

by Song Chul Hong
I'm Korean. Good Column, I think. In addition.....
Almost Korean Parents hope that their children are studying very very .... hard. But,strangly, such is exception to childisy sports man and women.