The DPR Korea Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of North Korea (officially called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea). Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
Famous quotes containing the words north, figure and/or skating:
“Come see the north wind’s masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)