SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Short track speed skater Lee June-seo recently showed Kwak Yoon-gy, the 32-year-old pink-haired elder statesman on the South Korean men’s short track speed skating team, a photo of the latter with his hair dyed in red, next to himself, when he was still a kid. Kwak, who is 11 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A conservative South Korean civic group tore up the Chinese flag during a rally near the Chinese Embassy in central Seoul on Friday to protest controversial refereeing against some of South Korea’s short track speed skaters at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Members of the civic group, which calls itself [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid controversy arising at the Beijing Winter Olympics on China’s false ownership claims over hanbok, K-pop celebrities unveiled photos of themselves wearing the Korean traditional attire. On Tuesday, Suga of K-pop supergroup BTS posted a photo of himself on social media wearing a Korean royal robe. The photo was [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Chinese Embassy here issued a rare public statement in response to fury among South Koreans over the “appropriation” of “hanbok,” the traditional Korean attire, and deepening anti-China sentiment. A woman, dressed in hanbok, appeared during last week’s opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, representing an ethnic minority [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Koreans expressed outrage on Tuesday over what they perceived as egregious refereeing against some of the country’s short track speed skaters at the Beijing Winter Olympics this week. In the men’s 1,000m semifinals on Monday, South Korea’s Hwang Dae-heon and Lee June-seo each got disqualified from their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — RM, leader of K-pop supergroup BTS, has expressed his support for a South Korean short track speed skater disqualified during the Beijing Winter Olympics amid mounting public outrage over the questionable referee decision. The singer posted a photo, along with a thumbs-up emoticon, on his Instagram account on Monday [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans have taken umbrage at what they believe is China’s claim to the traditional Korean attire hanbok during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Friday. In the early part of the ceremony, people representing 56 ethnic groups across China carried the Chinese national flag into [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The leadup to the Beijing Winter Olympics for the South Korean women’s short track speed skating team has been quite tumultuous, with a career-damaging scandal ruling out a former champion and a devastating injury sidelining a potential medal contender. Combine that with fairly low expectations for the squad, and [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean alpine snowboarder Lee Sang-ho, who won a silver medal at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, said Friday his next target is to win a gold medal at the Beijing Winter Games. Lee became the first South Korean to win an Olympic medal in snow sports after claiming [...]