Kim Yeji Sharpshooter Energy

2024

Date: 31 July 2024 · Place: Chateauroux Shooting Centre, Paris 2024 · Figures: Kim Yeji, South Korean Olympic silver medalist · Elon Musk, viral booster · the Korean Air Force, her employer · Tags: Olympics, Cinematic Stillness, Assassin Energy 01. Pose Of The Games Kim Yeji wins silver in the women's 10-metre air pistol on 31 July 2024. Photographs of her mid-shot show her hand on her hip, head tilted slightly forward, expression utterly neutral. The frame reads less like sport and more like a still from a Park Chan-wook film. Elon Musk posts within hours that she should be cast in an action film as is. Korean studios reportedly receive overtures. Yeji, an active-duty Air Force sergeant, declines most press. 02. Sister To The Pocket The Dikeç-Yeji pair becomes the canonical Paris 2024 image set. Both win silver. Both wear nothing notable. Both demonstrate that the visual codes of cool and the visual codes of elite competence have, in 2024, completely collapsed into each other. Sources • Reuters, 'South Korea's Kim Ye-ji becomes Olympic style icon' (1 August 2024) • BBC Sport, 'Kim Ye-ji wins air pistol silver' (31 July 2024) • The Guardian, 'Kim Yeji and the new look of Olympic shooting' (2 August 2024)