SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Olympic bobsleigh medalist Won Yun-jong will be among 11 candidates running for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission election next year. The IOC on Friday unveiled the final list of candidates for the election, which will take place during the Feb. 6-22 Winter Olympics in Milan [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Olympic chief Ryu Seung-min made a push for his country’s bid for the 2036 Summer Games in his recent meeting with International Olympic Committee (IOC) leaders in Switzerland, officials here said Wednesday. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) said Ryu met with IOC President Thomas [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With her first several international races in the books following a sabbatical, South Korean short tracker Choi Min-jeong has learned that she could still go up against the best of the best and come out on top. That realization is bad news for her rivals this week, as Choi, [...]
JINCHEON, South Korea, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — In the bronze medal match of the women’s doubles in badminton at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the South Korean team of Kim So-yeong and Kong Hee-yong defeated a team from the same country, Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan. The celebration for the winners was understandably muted, [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Yoon Hong-geun, head of the South Korean delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics in February and also president of the Korea Skating Union (KSU), had made a grand promise to athletes during the competition: Win a gold, and you will get free fried chicken for life. Yoon isn’t your [...]
Paris, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – OnePlan, the innovative London-based startup, has been named a partner to the Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, which will use OnePlan’s Venue Twin and GIS Mapping software for more efficiency and collaboration. This is the first time an Olympic and Paralympic Games has chosen a partner for GIS [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — As the belated Tokyo Olympics were nearly halfway over Friday, South Korean sports stars’ world-class performances and their teamwork have been creating a fresh buzz on social media here. On the front lines of the buzz are the men’s sabre fencing team of Kim Jung-hwan, Gu Bon-gil, Oh Sang-uk [...]
TOKYO, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Saturday took down banners at its Olympic athletes’ village with a nod to history, following a request from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) said the IOC had raised issues with the message written across a few banners, initially hung [...]
JINCHEON, South Korea, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul was selected Monday as the South Korean candidate city for a joint Olympic bid with North Korea. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) said Seoul was chosen over Busan as the candidate city for the 2032 Summer Games at its general assembly at the National [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., which is currently an official partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is undecided on whether to extend its contract that runs through the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, industry sources said Thursday. South Koreans have been paying attention to the possibility that the South Korean tech [...]