SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Following the Hangzhou Asian Games, which captivated the nation with a gold-medal performance from the men’s soccer team in a thrilling victory over Japan, attention is now turning to the bestowal of honors. Korean athletes achieved remarkable results during the Asian Games, but the military service exemption granted to gold [...]
Hangzhou, China, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Roller skater Jung Cheol-won, whose premature celebration resulted in the loss of a gold medal opportunity at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, which commenced on September 23 and will conclude on October 8, recently took to social media (SNS) to express his heartfelt apology to his teammates and fans. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — There was such a striking contrast. South Korean men’s football team and baseball team both won gold medals at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia on Sept. 1. But you couldn’t tell it by the way they were received by fans, both during their run to the top and [...]
HANOI, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnamese news media on Tuesday showed keen interest in an ongoing South Korean public petition to disqualify a South Korean Asian Games football referee. The petition was posted on the website of the South Korean presidential office Cheong Wa Dae right after Vietnam was defeated by the United Arab [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The military manpower agency will conduct a full review of the active-duty military service exemption system, its chief said Monday, amid controversy over dozens of athletes benefiting due to their wins in the latest Asian Games in Indonesia. Calls have persisted for an overhaul of the decades-old system to [...]
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 [...]