Why is 1986 Asian Games a game changer?

s2h Team

On 29 September, 1986, South Korea upstaged giants India and Pakistan while striding towards Asian hockey supremacy, making nonsense of the prediction that the Asian Games competition was going to be a two-horse race as usual. Was the Korean emergence expected? And why was the unseating of traditional powers considered a watershed moment not only for Asian hockey but also for the sport globally? S2H turns back the clock to that fateful day for a few insights in the penultimate episode of the September Series.