The Korean women's volleyball team, led by world-class giant Kim Yeon-kyung (33, Shanghai, China), is going to fight against Brazil.



The Korean women's volleyball team will play the semi-final match of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics against Brazil at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan today (6th) at 9 pm.



If they beat Brazil, they will secure an Olympic silver medal for the first time in Korean volleyball history and compete for a gold medal with the winner of the US-Serbia match.



If they do not pass Brazil, they will face the loser of the US-Serbia match against the bronze medal match on the 8th.



Reaching the semifinals for the first time in 9 years since the 2012 London Games, the 11th-ranked South Korea is inferior in every way to the world's 2nd-placed Brazil.



They are all behind by Brazil in skill, stamina, and opponent stats.



Korea beat Turkey in a close five set match in the quarterfinals and secured a ticket to the quarterfinals.



Including the group stage, they fought bloody battles 3 or 5 sets and won all of them.



Brazil, which competed in the same group as Korea, lost two sets to the Dominican Republic, but won the rest of the matches with set scores 3-0 and 3-1 and advanced to the semifinals.



Korea lost to Brazil 0-3 in the first match of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Volleyball Nations League (VNL) and Tokyo Olympics in June.



Brazil's top-notch skills have not changed, but Korea's momentum and organizational power are different from when they lost to Brazil twice recently.



In the so-called guillotine match, which is 'if you lose, it's the end', and Korea laughed in a five-set match three times in a row.



In the group stage match against the Dominican Republic, against Japan, and against Turkey in the quarter-finals, Yeon-Kyung Kim, the national team, and the whole nation who watched volleyball rejoiced together at the end.



The national team was united as one thanks to Kim Yeon-kyung's desperation and earnestness that this is the last Olympics.



We are preparing for a new milestone in 45 years, breaking the all-time high of Korean women's volleyball, which won the bronze medal, the first medal in Korean ball game history, at the 1976 Montreal Games.



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