SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A comprehensive survey released on September 9 reveals that golf has become increasingly popular in South Korea, with nearly 17% of adults participating in the sport at least once last year. The Korea Golf Association (KGA) conducted a nationwide study of 10,000 adults aged 20 to 70 across 17 cities [...]
PARIS, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s quest for multiple medals in taekwondo, its national martial art, will begin Wednesday in the men’s lightest weight class, -58 kilograms. Park Tae-joon will be in action at Grand Palais in Paris. The 20-year-old defeated the 2021 Olympic bronze medalist Jang Jun in the national team trials [...]
WASHINGTON, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Golf legend Pak Se-ri has been chosen as an additional honoree for this year’s Van Fleet Award for her contributions to the deepening of relations between South Korea and the United States, a nonprofit organization said Wednesday. Pak, director of the Seri Pak Hope Foundation, along with Yoon Yoon-soo, [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean PGA Tour golfer Lee Kyoung-hoon is determined to hunt for as many birdies as possible this week in pursuit of his third title on a familiar track in Texas. Lee will compete in the CJ Cup Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas. He won [...]
JEJU, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Golf courses on Jeju Island, South Korea, which thrived during the Covid-19 pandemic, are now grappling with a significant decrease in the number of visitors, according to data released by the Jeju Provincial Government on April 16. After surpassing the 2 million mark in 2019 with 2.09 million visitors, Jeju’s [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The BMW Ladies Championship, the lone LPGA Tour event in South Korea, will be played on the same course on the northwestern outskirts of Seoul for the second straight year this fall, the tournament’s organizers announced Tuesday. BMW Korea said the 72-hole tournament will be back at Seowon Hills [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean golf legend Pak Se-ri will team up with a global investment firm to host a newly named tournament on the LPGA Tour, officials have announced. The LPGA Tour announced Tuesday (U.S. time) that Pak and the Silicon Valley-based investment company Fir Hills will stage the Fir Hills [...]
PAJU, South Korea, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Shin Ji-yai has been playing golf for so long that when she first became the world No. 1 in women’s golf in 2010, many of the top South Korean players today were still in school and years away from turning professional. Ranked 16th in the world while [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of the park golf courses built along waterways such as the Nakdong River and the Han River have been found to be illegal. Park golf is gaining popularity as a sport among the aging population, but it is also becoming a social problem due to its negative [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Municipal governments across the country are scrambling to build park golf courses due to their attractive features as both sports facilities and tourism infrastructure. According to data from the Korea Park Golf Association, the number of park golf courses across the country jumped from 226 in 2019 to 361 [...]