SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean curling governing body announced Tuesday its teams will boycott all upcoming matches against Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, joining a slew of others in the sporting world in protesting the military action by Moscow. In an English-language statement, the Korea Curling Federation (KCF) said [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Cooling South Korea-Japan relations following Japan’s recent economic retaliation are affecting the sports industry. Gangneung in Gangwon Province, a host city for the South Korea-China-Japan Women’s Curling Competition scheduled for August 16 to 18, decided not to invite the Japanese team. The competition will feature the Gyeonggi Provincial Government [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean women’s curling team earned its highest-ever world ranking on Thursday after climbing up to second place. South Korea moved up four spots to finish second with 65.907 points in the latest women’s world rankings released by the World Curling Federation (WCF). South Korea was behind Sweden, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday its new vacuum cleaner advertisement, which features the South Korean women’s curling team that won a surprise silver in the 2018 Winter Games, tallied more than 5 million views on video-sharing platform YouTube. The advertisement, first showcased on March 14, posted more than 350,000 [...]
UIJEONGBU, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since South Korea’s “Team Kim” became the darlings of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics with a surprise silver medal in women’s curling, the sport originating from Scotland has experienced a surge in local popularity. Those wanting to try their hand at imitating their Olympic curling heroes, can head [...]
GEOCHANG, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – With curling enjoying explosive popularity thanks to the exploits of the South Korea women’s Olympics squad, which qualified for the semi-finals with a tournament-leading 8-1 record, a domestic manufacturer of curling stones based in Geochang County is gaining attention. After three years of research, starting this year the Geochang [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s mixed doubles curling team of Jang Hye-ji and Lee Ki-jeong beat the United States Friday for their second win at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Jang and Lee routed the U.S. siblings of Becca and Matt Hamiltonm, 9-1, in the fourth match of the preliminary mixed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In the past few years, South Korean patent applications pertaining to curling have increased significantly. On January 23, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) revealed only five ideas had been submitted from 1994 to 2013, but in the aftermath of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, where the South Korean [...]
JINCHEON, South Korea, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The head coach of the South Korean women’s curling team on Wednesday showed her complete confidence in bringing her home country its first Olympic medal in the sport at next month’s PyeongChang Winter Games. “We’ve played with the big four powers of Canada, Switzerland, Sweden and Scotland on the world stage for the last two years. And we’ve [...]
Suwon, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Curling-themed mobile game application has been launched by Gyeonggi-do, the most populous province in South Korea on June 10. The curling game caught a nationwide popularity during the latest Winter Olympics in Sochi. With an aim to promote the organization’s advancement in policy planning — and attract the public [...]