SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of teenage winter sports athletes from countries that have little snow will have off-season training in South Korea. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Gangwon provincial office and the Pyeongchang Memorial Foundation jointly announced that 100 teenage athletes from 14 countries, including Thailand and Ethiopia, [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean speed skater Kim Bo-reum had barely arrived in Beijing on Thursday evening, when she studied her dinner options at the cafeteria inside the Olympic village. And her reaction? “I wanted to go home right then and there,” Kim quipped Saturday after a training session at the National [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean athletes at the Beijing Winter Games will get to enjoy a taste of home starting Friday, thanks to a meal service center set up in a hotel near their Olympic village. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) announced Thursday that it will be providing boxed meals [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean athletes and officials in Beijing for the upcoming Winter Games celebrated the Lunar New Year on Tuesday in an understated event at their Olympic village. Though Jan. 1 on the Lunar Calendar is one of South Korea’s biggest holidays, the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) only [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — As the belated Tokyo Olympics were nearly halfway over Friday, South Korean sports stars’ world-class performances and their teamwork have been creating a fresh buzz on social media here. On the front lines of the buzz are the men’s sabre fencing team of Kim Jung-hwan, Gu Bon-gil, Oh Sang-uk [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Many K-pop fans around the world are dreaming of becoming so-called “successful fans,” referring to those who get noticed by their idols or have an in-person meeting with them. At the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, young Korean athletes have become the envy of those K-pop fans, as the athletes have [...]
URAYASU, Japan, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics will be getting a taste of home during their stay in Japan, thanks to a makeshift kitchen built in a hotel near their living quarters. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) has set up its meal service center at [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Company-employed, semi-professional winter sports athletes have been subjected to verbal, physical, and sexual violence more frequently than any other types of sports athletes, a state human rights watchdog said Thursday. The National Human Rights Council of Korea (NHRCK) announced the results of its special investigation on ice sports athletes, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s anti-doping body said Wednesday it is investigating purchases of banned performance enhancing substances by 15 local athletes. The Korea Anti-Doping Agency (KADA) said it received the list of 15 athletes from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety earlier in the day. KADA said it will not [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The income imbalance for singers and athletes is becoming serious. According to data submitted to Rep. Kim Doo-kwan from the National Tax Service, the annual total income of the top 28 earners, or one percent of the 2,758 who reported income as singers, was 136.5 billion won (US$117 million). [...]