SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has begun attracting participants for its annual Pyongyang International Marathon, scheduled for April, marking the resumption of the event after a six-year hiatus, if held as planned, a North Korean website showed Monday. Sports in the DPR Korea, a website operated by North Korea’s sports ministry, carried [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte World Tower, South Korea’s tallest building, held the ’2024 Sky Run’ vertical marathon on April 20, challenging participants to conquer 2,917 stairs scaling all 123 floors from the ground level. The nation’s largest and highest vertical race has been an annual event since 2017, with around 8,000 climbers participating [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – On the first day of the 2024, Daejeon’s Yuseong-gu Hanbit Tower Plaza came alive with the ’2024 Sunyang Maenmom Running Festival.’ This unique event, in which half-naked runners brave frigid winter temperatures, attracted over 6,000 participants, including 2,024 runners, along with their families, marking a vibrant start to the New [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Incheon Metropolitan City Government announced that it will hold a marathon for people and their pets at the Songdo Moonlight Festival Park in October. The marathon will see both pets and their owners run a 6-kilometer course together. The marathon will accept some 10,000 participants. The entry price [...]
JEJU, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jeju International Tourism Marathon was held in a full-fledged manner on Sunday after being suspended for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 3,500 people participated in the event, competing at the Gujwa Sports Complex and the coastal road on the southern resort island of Jeju. The [...]
LOS ANGELES, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The idea behind it is that of an Italian-style ‘street party’: a 5-kilometre mini-marathon open to all, “to gather around June 2 and our flag all the communities in the area.” In an interview with LaPresse, Silvia Chiave, Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles – a city [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Marathon star Lee Bong-ju, who has been suffering from a rare muscular disease, participated in a marathon race for a special cause as part of his recovery. The race took place at Bucheon Stadium in Gyeonggi Province on Sunday with 195 pacemakers split into 10 groups to each run [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has canceled the annual Pyongyang Marathon due to the coronavirus pandemic, a tour agency has said. The event, officially known as the Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon, was scheduled to be held in the North’s capital from April 5-11. “The 2021 Pyongyang Marathon has been officially canceled,” Koryo [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Daejeon Topless Marathon, held every year on Jan. 1 at 11:11 a.m. since 2016, has been replaced with a run-alone ceremony this year. Chairman Cho Woong-rae from the Mackiss Company Ltd., the host organization of the marathon, ran topless for 12 kilometers alongside Daejeon’s Gapcheon Stream on Jan. [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Daegu plans to use so-called ‘untact’ (contactless) means to hold a half-marathon race. Daegu’s Dalseo District announced Thursday that it will hold the Untact Dalseo Half-Marathon Contest from Sept. 27 to Oct. 17. With an annual festival held every September, race organizers needed to come up [...]