PARIS, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Woo Haram owns the record for the best Olympic performance by a South Korean diver, with his fourth-place finish in the men’s 3-meter springboard event at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. He will try to improve on that and grab the country’s first-ever diving medal, when the preliminary for the [...]
PARIS, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — From breathtaking shotmaking to heart-stopping rallies to a player getting sick in the middle of a late comeback, the badminton mixed doubles semifinal match between two South Korean tandems in Paris on Thursday had everything you could ask for. Kim Won-ho and Jeong Na-eun outlasted compatriots Seo Seung-jae and [...]
PARIS, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — After the final bell had rung in her quarterfinal bout at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, South Korean boxer Im Ae-ji wasn’t sure if she had won. She stood nervously as the referee Pavel Pavlov held her wrist in his right hand and that of the Colombian fighter Yeni [...]
PARIS, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — After helping their respective men’s and women’s teams to gold medals in archery at the Paris Olympics, Kim Woo-jin and Lim Si-hyeon will join forces for the mixed team event in the French capital Friday. Kim and Lim, by virtue of being the top South Koreans in the men’s and women’s ranking rounds [...]
PARIS, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea extended its medal-winning streak to four days at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, picking up a bronze medal each in table tennis and judo. The first medal of the day was a drought buster, as Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin captured the bronze medal in the mixed [...]
PARIS, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The men’s golf tournament of the Paris Olympics will begin Thursday at Le Golf National, just south of the French capital, with two PGA Tour pros looking to bring South Korea its first men’s golf medal. An Byeong-hun will play at his second Olympic Games, after tying for 11th [...]
PARIS, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean women’s archery team has etched their names in Olympic history, securing their 10th consecutive gold medal in the team event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Their success is attributed in part to the remarkable composure of the Korean archers, often referred to as their “hearts of steel.” [...]
PARIS, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Team Korea arrived at the Paris Olympics with an eye on winning five gold medals. And after only three days of competition, the country has met that mark. South Korea collected two gold medals on Monday to reach five gold medals overall. The first gold of the day was [...]
PARIS, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A Japanese right-wing commentator has drawn attention for his criticism of South Korea’s reduced Olympic presence at the Paris Games, characterizing it as symbolic of the nation’s decline. Katsumi Murotani, a prominent conservative figure in Japan, penned a column in the Weekly Fuji, a sister publication of the Sankei Shimbun, [...]
PARIS, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean women’s epee fencing team will be chasing two rabbits Tuesday at the Paris Olympics: their second straight medal and a measure of redemption. Choi In-jeong, Kang Young-mi, Song Se-ra and Lee Hye-in have been brought back as a team for Paris, with Choi coming out of [...]