SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A two-time Olympic champion Kim Woo-jin and a triple Asian Games gold medalist Lim Si-hyeon will headline the South Korean men’s and women’s archery teams at the upcoming Paris Summer Games. The national team trials concluded Thursday afternoon in Yecheon, some 160 kilometers southeast of Seoul, with the top [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An San, who captured three gold medals in archery for South Korea at the 2021 Summer Olympics, will not have a chance to defend her titles in Paris this year. An was eliminated at the midway point of the third stage of the 2024 national team trials Monday in [...]
TOKYO, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Olympic archery champions An San and Kim Je-deok will donate their “Robin Hood” arrows and autographed uniforms to the Olympic Museum in Switzerland, the sport’s national federation said Sunday. The Korea Archery Association (KAA) said An, a triple gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, and Kim, who [...]
TOKYO, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea came to Tokyo as the unparalleled force in Olympic archery. And with a performance by turns dominant and scintillating over the past week, South Korea picked up four out of five gold medals at stake. Any questions? South Korea’s Olympic archery campaign started with a bang, as [...]
TOKYO, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has dominated archery in the Olympics the way few other countries have in other sports. South Korea leads everyone with 26 gold medals, including two over the first two days of competition at the Tokyo Olympics this month. South Korea won the inaugural gold medal in the [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of accidents related to the use of compound bows, primarily used for leisure activities, has sparked controversy over how to restrict their use. The controversy began after a teenage son shot his father with a compound bow last month during an argument, resulting in a court’s probation [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is set to hold its first online archery tournament. The Korea Archery Association (KAA) announced Tuesday that the 31st National Elementary School Archery Tournament scheduled for Wednesday to Friday will be held online to protect student athletes from the coronavirus. Athletes will demonstrate their skills at each [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Kim Woo-jin set a world record in the men’s 90-meter recurve archery at a local competition on Friday. Kim, 25, scored 343 points out of a possible 360 in the preliminary round of the 49th National All-Star Archery Tournament at Jinho International Archery Center in Yecheon, North [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Women’s archery team for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics showed up for practice Sunday, but not at their usual archery center. Instead, team members appeared at a domed baseball stadium. The three members of the Olympics team – Jang Hye-jin, Ki Bo-bae, Choi Mi-sun – arrived at [...]
Yecheon-gun is considering the establishment of an archery union with Mongolia, Bhutan and India, which are major archery nations. The picture above shows the 49th Annual National Male and Female Archery Championship. (image : Yonhap) Yecheon, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Officials from Yecheon-gun have made it public that they will establish an international union [...]