The study investigated preparation process made by Korea table tennis association for attending the 35th The World Table Tennis Championships in Pyongyang, 1979. Korea table tennis association performed training in a foreign country and program to send athletes to international competition to win in the international games while they held competition where foreign representative athletes were invited for mutual friendship. For Korea table tennis association to attend competition, they should have negotiation with International table tennis federation. And help and cooperation from people related to table tennis in the USA, Japan, Germany etc. were essential. Accordingly, Korea table tennis association sent representative team for negotiation to allies countries including secretariat of International table tennis federation while they invited chairman, head of secretariat, and directors in International table tennis federation to Korea to have a meeting with them for attending a competition. Thus, they did active sports diplomacy. And Korea table tennis association made much efforts, for example, going to Geneva for obtaining visa that can make Korean athletes team enter North korea. But Korean team could not attend the championships because North Korea Mission that insisted on unified team of South and North Korea refused to issue visa.
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