A SOUTH Korean student has been offered a scholarship to Brunel University, whose sports facilities were used by the country’s Olympic team.
More than 400 South Korean athletes used the university as their base before the games, with the judo, fencing, taekwondo, badminton, wrestling, and judo teams training at the facilities there.
The Hillingdon Sports and Leisure Complex, Stockley Academy, and Slough Hockey Club were also used for practice.
Now the university has offered the £5,000 scholarship to student Hai In Song, who recorded a video message for the Korean Olympic Committee and performed pangut, a traditional Korean dance, at a civic reception on the day the Olympic Flame came through Uxbridge, on July 24.
Brunel’s vice-chancellor, Professor Chris Jenks, said: “In honour of the South Korean Olympic Team staying on the Brunel campus we really wanted to find a way that not only symbolised our delight at having [them] here but was also representative of what is at the heart of Brunel.”
