South Korea’s Top Archers Scheduled For New Competition

South Korean top Archers are pitting against each other to compete for a new competition this fall according to the national archery governing body.

According to the Korea Archery Association, there will be an event entitled "Korea Archery Competition 2016'. All venues are in Seoul and It will be held from Oct. 20 to 22. The auxiliary stadium at Jamsil Sports Complex will host the preliminaries the following day after the official practice on Oct. 20.  Moreover, the finals will be held at Olympic Park's Peace Square on Oct. 22.

The practice of Korean Traditional Archery has undergone surprisingly little change over the centuries since which written record has been kept. Its emphasis upon courtesy, ettiquite and mental focus have endured throughout the centuries, and give us an excellent representative artform original to the Korean peninsula.

All six Rio contestants namely Chang Hye-jin, Ki Bo-bae and Choi Mi-sun for women, and Ku Bon-chan, Kim Woo-jin and Lee Seung-yun for men will be in action.

According to the organizers, there will be a total of 160 archers that will join the event.  They are the top 80 archers from men and women in the field. The competition will run for about two months after South Korea's historic sweep of four archery gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

South Korea has been a dominant force in Olympic archery for decades. Its talent pool is comprehensive and deep that a domestic competition may have the intensity of an international event.

Furthermore, the detailed information about the event including the purse and the title will be announced in the middle of September.