Yang Yong-eun became the first Asian man to win a U.S. major championship after he overhauled Tiger Woods to take the PGA Championship in 2009, but the men's game hasn't seen the same Korean surge as in women's golf.

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In 2002 North Korea chose a tycoon, Yang Bin, then China's second-richest man, to develop a special zone by the Yalu.

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We were kept amused with a carving of a direwolf ice sculpture, as well as a concert performance of music from the television series: Jason Yang, who received over four million YouTube views of his one-man, thirteen-violin version of the theme song, led a nine-piece orchestra, who performed admirably despite the cold and passing traffic.

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