Non-Island Societies: Winter Olympics and Korean Plante

non-island societies: Following a change in the law, a steady stream of imports have been given new passports and places in the squad, making it one-third white, even though the population is around 96 per cent ethnically Korean, according to CTV. Plante, a journeyman in his eighth year of professional hockey, played in the US, Norway, Austria and Germany before coming to South Korea nearly two years ago. South Korea is among the world's most racially homogenous non-island societies but its ice hockey team is becoming unusually diverse as Seoul seeks to avoid humiliation at the rink when it hosts next year's Winter Olympics. Aged 29, his carefully memorised five-line address to the Korean Olympic Committee was a key step in probably his last chance to appear on the sport's biggest international stage. If his application is approved he will become the seventh North American on the team. It was an opportunity that we thought could happen, he told AFP. We decided to come here so we invested everything that we can. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.