SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean speed skater Cha Min-kyu posted a photo of himself with Bing Dwen Dwen, the official mascot for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, on social media in response to fake news that he threw away the panda doll. He posted a picture of two dolls Bing Dwen Dwen [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major TV networks kept an unusual silence during Kamila Valieva’s short program of women’s singles figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games. The Russian phenom is currently at the center of a doping controversy. Commentators from KBS, MBC and SBS kept their silence for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly two-thirds of South Koreans have no interest in the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, a survey showed Friday. Gallup Korea polled 1,002 South Korean adults from Tuesday to Thursday on their thoughts on the Feb. 4-20 Winter Games in the Chinese capital. And 65 percent said they were not [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of all South Koreans believe that they should join the U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, a survey showed Monday. The Korea Society Opinion Institute conducted a survey of 1,004 Koreans over 18 years of age, 50.9 percent of whom said the country should join [...]
CANBERRA/SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in said Monday that South Korea is not considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics and has not been asked by any nation to do so. Moon addressed the issue for the first time after the United States announced last week that it will not send [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans believe an inter-Korean summit at the Beijing Winter Olympics, slated for February, will not be possible, a survey showed Friday. According to the survey on 1,000 adults by the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council on Nov. 20 and 21, 53.9 percent said an inter-Korean [...]
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 [...]