Thanks for your elaborate answer, that sort of proves my thoughts and suspicions. Glad to learn the skaters living abroad have some familiar living with them and have a pet to cuddle and cry into. Of course, there are the daily Skype calls etc.
Short track skating teams are run by bookmakers I've read, i.e. people gamble on the matches. That sort of corrupts the short track skaters I think and by proxy the federation governing them.
My country, NED, is doing OK in short track, and I've seen a lot of coverage. KOR skaters have different tactic from ours, always lurking for their chance.
Well I wouldn't be surprised if KSU is involved with bookmakers, huge sports like baseball and football (=soccer, for you US people) have been scandalized by rigged matches already, then why not short track? And I don't really follow short track aside from Worlds and Olympics, but I generally say this: when an athlete from Korea is good, it's because they're ridiculously talented, not because there's a good environment here. Exception: archery, the Korean Archery Association is awesome in it's integrity and transparency. But the athletes are awesome too. But this is off-topic.
When foreign people are like over Korean skaters, I sigh internally because the whole situation is a mess and it takes much explanation. But I also kinda envy them, that means they don't have these problems our skaters suffer through. I wish I loved other countries' skaters more than ours, but like the Queen did, amazing talents just spring up from nowhere somehow and make me fall in love with them... (sigh)