PARIS, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A Japanese right-wing commentator has drawn attention for his criticism of South Korea’s reduced Olympic presence at the Paris Games, characterizing it as symbolic of the nation’s decline. Katsumi Murotani, a prominent conservative figure in Japan, penned a column in the Weekly Fuji, a sister publication of the Sankei Shimbun, [...]
PARIS, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean women’s epee fencing team will be chasing two rabbits Tuesday at the Paris Olympics: their second straight medal and a measure of redemption. Choi In-jeong, Kang Young-mi, Song Se-ra and Lee Hye-in have been brought back as a team for Paris, with Choi coming out of [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Stray Kids has claimed its fifth No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart with its latest EP, “Ate.” The eight-track album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart for this week with 232,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States, Billboard said in a [...]
PARIS, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean taekwondo practitioner Lee Da-bin has won everything that an athlete in her martial art can win, except for one thing: an Olympic gold medal. With a world championship, an Asian championship, two Asian Games gold medals and nearly a handful of Grand Prix titles, Lee is one [...]
PARIS, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Long known as the capital of arts and culture, Paris will transform itself into the capital of sports over the next 17 days as the host of the 33rd Summer Olympics. The opening ceremony for the first Summer Games in Paris in 100 years is scheduled to begin at [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – “It’s simple. Hold the grip naturally, as if you’re holding an egg, and use your index, middle, and ring fingers to draw the bowstring,” instructed Oh Jin-hyek, a gold medalist from the 2012 London and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as he demonstrated proper archery technique to participants at a unique event [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean taekwondo team departed for Paris for the Olympics on Thursday, driven to bring home a gold medal three years after the country was shut out in its national martial art. South Korea will send four athletes to the taekwondo competition, which begins Aug. 7 at Grand [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Naver is gaining increased attention from global investment banks, with its webtoon platform and robotics ventures leading the charge. According to industry sources on July 24, Goldman Sachs and Evercore ISI, two prominent investment banks, have set ambitious target prices for Webtoon Entertainment, the parent company [...]
PARIS, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — After working with ascendant South Korean swimmer Kim Woo-min in a training camp in January in Queensland, Australian coach Michael Palfrey became a fan of the 22-year-old — so much so that Palfrey believes Kim is capable of winning his first Olympic medal in Paris this weekend. About a [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Rookie girl group ILLIT’s debut single “Magnetic” secured the highest overseas streams among K-pop songs on Spotify in the first half of this year, the global streaming giant said Thursday. A solo piece, “FRI(END)S” by boy group BTS’ V, came in second on the K-pop global impact list announced [...]