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 [...]