There is a curse in South Korea and it all started back in 2014. I remember this like it was yesterday.

No I don't, I'm very young, okay?

But at the announcement of Olympian, gold medalist, figure, skater, South Korean, Kimyana's retirement announcement,

after the 2014 Sochi Olympics, that's where the curse began.

This obsession with figure skating by the country of South Korea

develops after Kimyana.

And now, suddenly every single mom that we knew was looking for

their kid they were like you you should have been in figure skating since you were

five years old you could have made something out of yourself instead you post

these cringy ass YouTube videos look at yourself immediately afterwards

thousands of little girls are enrolled into figure skating classes there weren't

even enough rinks some rinks we're turning, ma'am, no, we cannot just take it. This is an infant.

They don't even know how to walk right now. What do you mean? What do you want us to do? Just throw them down onto the ice?

Kimiana single-handedly made figure skating so much more popular in South Korea

because before her, the government didn't even care for national figure skaters.

They didn't even invest money into it. It wasn't even

until she won the junior grand pre-final and it was taking Kimiana 2,200 a month to skate. Her training

facilities, her costumes, renting ice

rings, choreographers, her parents were paying 2,200 dollars a month on top of all

their other expenses. It wasn't until the junior grand pre-final that South Korea

was like fine. You might be on to something. You might win an Olympic gold

medal so we will cover some of your costs. So we'll give you

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