FILE PHOTO - Curling - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - Women's Round Robin - South Korea v Olympic Athletes from Russia - Gangneung Curling Center - Gangneung, South Korea - February 21, 2018 - Skip Kim Eun-jung of South Korea delivers a stone. REUTERS/Phil Noble
UISEONG, South Korea (Reuters) - At a high school in Uiseong, South Korea's new capital of curling, more than 300 hundred fans gathered around the big screen to watch their beloved 'Garlic Girls' edge one step closer to an Olympic triumph with a place in the final.
The countryside farming region, famed for its garlic production, is home to four of the five-member South Korea women's curling team, who have become internet sensations with their unlikely run to an Olympic gold medal showdown.
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