SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The late South Korean mountaineer Kim Hong-bin was inducted into the country’s Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday, five months after he went missing following a record-setting climb of an eight-thousander in the Himalayas. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) posthumously honored Kim as its “Sports Hero” for [...]
GWANGJU, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Rescuers halted a search for a missing South Korean mountaineer in the Himalayas at the request of his family, officials said Monday. Kim Hong-bin, 56, went missing on July 18 after scaling the 8,047-meter-high Broad Peak located in the Karakoram Range on the Pakistani-Chinese border. A taskforce in the [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A fingerless South Korean mountaineer went missing after achieving the record-breaking feat of climbing all of the world’s 14 highest peaks in the Himalayas, officials here said Monday. “I received a call that Kim Hong-bin went missing on his way down from the peak,” Lee In-jeong, president of the [...]