Just to put Samick bows in perspective... At the last Olympics, South Korea men's and women's teams won gold medals. Their women swept the individual medals. All but one were shooting Samick. Naturally, their inexpensive starter bows aren't built to quite the same standard as their high end tournament bows, but they are definitely not junkers.

On the other hand, you can get a ChekMate made for not much more than you'd pay for a Samick. Or you could find an old recurve on e-bay for a hundred bucks or so. Most of those old bows from the 60's and 70's still have a lot of shooting left in 'em.