Whilst association soccer continues to be considered one of the preferred athletics in South Korea, the martial artwork of taekwondo is regarded as being the national sport.

However the Sui Military was lured right into a trap via the famed Koguryŏ commander Ŭlchi Mundŏk, and endured a calamitous defeat in 파라곤 the Salsu (Ch'ŏngch'ŏn) River. It is alleged that only 2,seven-hundred on the 300,000 Sui troopers who had crossed the Yalu survived to find their way back again, and also the Sui emperor now lifted the siege of Liao-tung Fortress and withdrew his forces to China good. Yang Ti continued to send his armies from Koguryŏ but once more without the need of accomplishment, and before very long his war-weakened empire crumbled." ^