{"id":789164,"date":"2026-10-02T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789164\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:02:18","slug":"2026-asian-games-tom-kim-south-korea-in-contention-through-36-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789164\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Asian Games: Tom Kim, South Korea in contention through 36 holes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seeking an exemption from mandatory military service in South Korea<\/a>, Tom Kim posted a 4-under 66 on his second round at Japan\u2019s Kasugai Country Club East Course.<\/p>\n

Kim sits two back of Wenyi Ding and Wei-hsuan Wang\u2019s co-lead at 9 under with two rounds left at the Asian Games \u2014 an event the 24-year-old South Korean native traveled to compete in after leading the Presidents Cup\u2019s International team <\/a>at Medinah over the weekend. <\/p>\n

With a gold medal in either the men\u2019s competition or the team competition, Kim would be excused from serving between 18 and 21 months in the military. <\/p>\n

On the team side, comprised of the two individual lowest scores, South Korea sits in solo third at 14 under through 36 holes. Japan is setting the pace at 16 under<\/a>, with China a shot off the lead at the tournament\u2019s halfway point. <\/p>\n

S.H. Kim and Doyeob Mun are also representing South Korea in the competition, with Kim also playing for an exemption. Mun, 35, served in the country\u2019s military. <\/p>\n

\u201cI already finished my military service so I don\u2019t really think about the military (exemption)\u201d, Mun said during a pretournament interview earlier this week. \u201cBut I want to play good, so we make our team get a gold medal … to make sure they don\u2019t go to the military.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Golf<\/p>\n

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The International team star at Medinah opened with a 3-under 67 at the Kasugai Country Club East Couse in Japan to sit inside the leaderboard\u2019s top 10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seeking an exemption from mandatory military service in South Korea, Tom Kim posted a 4-under 66 on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}