SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta-Palembang to feature a joint delegation from both Koreas, South Korean athletes participated in a special information session that discussed the precautionary guidelines on how to behave around North Koreans. On August 7, South Korean athletes held an inaugural rally before receiving instruction [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and North Korea will try to continue their peacemaking mood through sport by sending joint teams to the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. The Koreas agreed to field joint teams in three sports — basketball, canoeing, and rowing — at this year’s Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, which will [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A couple of reigning Olympic archery champions will represent South Korea at this year’s Asian Games. Chang Hye-jin, a double gold medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games, and Kim Woo-jin, a member of the gold medal-winning men’s team at the same competition, won the female and male events at the 2018 national team trials on [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon, the South Korean host of the 2014 Asian Games, has reached a consulting agreement with the event’s next host, hoping to share its experience and knowledge of staging the continent’s largest multisport competition, officials said Monday. The organizing committee for the 2014 Incheon Asian Games said its secretary-general, [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Even before the beginning of the Incheon Asian Games, condoms made available free of charge by the organizing committee are fast running out every day. According to the Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee on September 17, as many as 5,000 condoms it supplies every day at the Asian Games Village are out [...]
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“North Korean cheerleaders who embody communist ideology to their bones are like warriors for revolution. Their beauty is nothing but an empty shell to bewitch South Korean people.” “Dispatch of its cheerleading squad will be used as a weapon to disarm the sense of national security in South Korea.” “They are no less than the [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Goyang city , north of Seoul, announced on September 10 that the city was not responsible for raising a North Korean flag near the Goyang sports complex. According to the city, an organizing committee of Asian Games Incheon 2014 arbitrarily hoisted national flags of 45 participants in the Asian [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the Hallyu — a wave of popular South Korean culture — sweeping through the entire Asia and now starting to invade the rest of the world, evident from K-pop YouTube videos gathering over 3 billion hits from total 225 countries, “K-pop Expo in Asia,” which will be the largest [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon, the host city of the upcoming Asian Games in September this year, is striving to induce Chinese package tourists with various tourist attractions including the shooting site of the much beloved drama “My Love from the Star.” On July 2, a total of 3,000 Chinese group tourists arrived [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Romantic Sportism’ is apparently the watchword for new women’s fashion this spring. According to AK Mall, an online shopping mall, which examined purchase patterns by women in their 20s and 30s (2.4 million people), sporty-look items such as jeans and loafers gained popularity in recent three weeks [...]