South Korea's Kim Kyeong-ae competes during the women's curling final which her side lost to Sweden during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Sunday. For the Koreans this was the end of a remarkable journey from the eighth-ranked team in the world to Olympic silver medallists. Skip Kim Eun-jung and her high school team-mates cried as they waved to the crowd after conceding the final after the ninth end. The high school friends who make up Team Kim revealed they only had an inkling of the fame they had achieved. Swedish skip Hasselborg paid tribute to Team Kim, and said the welcome they had received in Korea had helped them take gold.

Source: Bangkok Post February 25, 2018 06:45 UTC