Yoo In-sik

Yoo In-sik in his repair shop in Seoul. Yoo was one of South Korea's first Winter Paralympians.

A Korean Paralympic skier says other skiers cheer him on now. It didn’t used to be that way.

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Yoo In-sik remembers when other skiers used to shy away from him on the chairlift because of his missing leg. “When I ski now, people cheer me on and clap for me,” he says.

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