'39 Medals'Park Tae-Hwan"The prize money? Get cash in a lump sum""
Jul 15, 2024
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Park Tae-hwan appeared on TV CHOSUN 'Hae-man's Baekban Travel' (hereinafter 'Baekban Travel'), which aired on the 14th, to find the taste of the sea in Haenam, Jeollanam-do.
Park Tae-hwan, who won numerous medals in the Olympics and international competitions. In total, he has 39 medals around his neck. When the talk of pensions came up, he said "The sports pension is fixed. The amount of money that comes out a month is fixed, but I already got my P.E. pension score in high school, so I get the prize money in lump sum cash from the next game." Then "Should I say the amount of pension I've filled? The amount is not much. "This table is enough to live on." He laughed at the production team's attention.
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"As I won first place in the country in the sixth grade, I thought I should work harder. That was when my mother was sick. But every time I went to the tournament and saw you win, you never cared about being sick. As I worked harder, I even became a member of the national team," he said, expressing his affection for his mother, who had been fighting cancer.
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