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A message reading "No Pain No Gain" is written on a Deokjeok High School baseball team helmet, during their first game of the 51st Bonghwang High School Baseball Tournament in Seoul, South Korea, August 19, 2023. In addition to helping the boys achieve their dreams, the Deokjeok sports academy, set up by Kim Hak-yong, former manager of the elite Dongguk University team that has produced scores of players in the national KBO major league, has breathed life into Deokjeok, which was struggling to retain, and attract, youngsters, like many other rural areas in the world's most rapidly ageing society. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEARCH "HONG-JI BASEBALL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.
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