SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Celtic FC forward Yang Hyun-jun will not be able to compete for South Korea at the upcoming Olympic men’s football qualifiers due to a club commitment, the national football federation said Friday, a big blow to the country’s pursuit of a spot in the Paris Summer Games. The Korea [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Competing at his third and final Winter Games in Beijing, South Korean short track speed skater Kwak Yoon-gy is enjoying his Olympic experience to the fullest — acting as the team’s designated photographer, resident comedian and even its de facto spokesperson. He isn’t just that proverbial kid in a [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean speed skater Kim Bo-reum had barely arrived in Beijing on Thursday evening, when she studied her dinner options at the cafeteria inside the Olympic village. And her reaction? “I wanted to go home right then and there,” Kim quipped Saturday after a training session at the National [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean athletes at the Beijing Winter Games will get to enjoy a taste of home starting Friday, thanks to a meal service center set up in a hotel near their Olympic village. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) announced Thursday that it will be providing boxed meals [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s recent suspension of North Korea until the end of next year is dealing yet another dispiriting blow to South Korea’s efforts to use sports diplomacy to reengage with Pyongyang, experts said Friday. The suspension came as Seoul has been angling for top-level inter-Korean engagement [...]
TOKYO, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean volleyball legend Kim Yeon-koung announced her retirement from international play Sunday, moments after the team’s straight-set loss to Serbia in the bronze medal match of the Tokyo Olympics. Fighting back tears after South Korea fell short of a medal at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Kim said she [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As the Korean food supplier for the South Korean national teams at the Tokyo Olympics continues to raise controversy among Japanese politicians, the Japanese government continues to insist that food from Fukushima is safe. Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said at a press conference on Tuesday that Japan is [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Football was the most-watched sport midway through the Tokyo Olympics among South Korean TV viewers, data showed Monday. The group round match of the South Korean men’s football team against Romania on July 25 marked a combined 33 percent in viewership, according to Nielson Korea. It was aired simultaneously [...]
TOKYO, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean artistic gymnast Yeo Seo-jeong can proudly call herself an Olympic medalist, but the 19-year-old vaulter isn’t even the first one in her family to claim that title. It was a quarter century ago that her father, Yeo Hong-chul, captured silver medal in the men’s vault at the [...]
TOKYO, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea came to Tokyo as the unparalleled force in Olympic archery. And with a performance by turns dominant and scintillating over the past week, South Korea picked up four out of five gold medals at stake. Any questions? South Korea’s Olympic archery campaign started with a bang, as [...]