On May 31st our guest was Mr. David Lesens. He comes from France and is living since many years in Korea, working for foreign companies.
He also brought the French game "petanque" to Korea and introduced this game to our students.
Pétanque is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports. In these sports, players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball. In pétanque the objective is to score points by having boules closer to the target than the opponent after all boules have been thrown. This is achieved by throwing or rolling boules closer to the small target ball, officially called a jack (fr: cochonnet), or by hitting the opponents' boules away from the target, while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground. The game is normally and best played on hard dirt or gravel. It can be played in public areas in parks or in dedicated facilities called boulodromes.
The current form of the game was codified in 1907 or 1910 in La Ciotat, in Provence, France. The French name pétanque (borrowed into English, with or without the acute accent) comes from petanca in the Provençal dialect of the Occitan language, deriving from the expression pè tancat [ˈpɛ taŋˈkat], meaning 'foot fixed' or 'foot planted' (on the ground).
Pétanque is not currently an Olympic sport, although
the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules—which was created in 1985 by
several international boules organizations specifically for this purpose—has
been lobbying the Olympic committee since 1985 to make it part of the summer
Olympics. Pétanque has appeared in every edition of The World Games from 1985
onward. The 2022 World Games in the United States will include women’s
pétanque, the first time that only women's events will be held as part of the
boules sports program at The World Games. (Wiki)