PARIS, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean taekwondo practitioner Lee Da-bin has won everything that an athlete in her martial art can win, except for one thing: an Olympic gold medal. With a world championship, an Asian championship, two Asian Games gold medals and nearly a handful of Grand Prix titles, Lee is one [...]
PARIS, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Long known as the capital of arts and culture, Paris will transform itself into the capital of sports over the next 17 days as the host of the 33rd Summer Olympics. The opening ceremony for the first Summer Games in Paris in 100 years is scheduled to begin at [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean taekwondo team departed for Paris for the Olympics on Thursday, driven to bring home a gold medal three years after the country was shut out in its national martial art. South Korea will send four athletes to the taekwondo competition, which begins Aug. 7 at Grand [...]
PARIS, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — After working with ascendant South Korean swimmer Kim Woo-min in a training camp in January in Queensland, Australian coach Michael Palfrey became a fan of the 22-year-old — so much so that Palfrey believes Kim is capable of winning his first Olympic medal in Paris this weekend. About a [...]
PARIS, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea made a last-minute switch to its mixed rifle shooting teams on Thursday, two days before their competition in France. The Korea Shooting Federation (KSF) announced that Park Ha-jun, a three-time Asian Games medalist, will team up with Keum Ji-hyeon in the 10-meter air rifle mixed team event. [...]
PARIS, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — After training in their competition venue for the first time, two of South Korea’s top swimming medal contenders at the Paris Olympics came away feeling good about their prospects. Freestylers Kim Woo-min and Hwang Sun-woo joined their teammates at Paris La Defense Arena in Paris on Tuesday. The swimming [...]
PARIS, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Blankets and French summer don’t seem to go hand in hand at first glance, but with lower-than-expected temperatures in Paris, Team Korea didn’t take any chances when it comes to setting up rooms for its athletes at their Olympic village. Organizers of the Paris Olympics opened the athletes’ village [...]
PARIS, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics is Friday evening, but there will be preliminary action taking place in the days leading up to the occasion. For South Korea, the action begins with the individual ranking rounds in the women’s and men’s archery, followed by the Group A match [...]
PARIS, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — After flying 14 hours to Paris, the South Korean table tennis team for the upcoming Olympics has found a home away from home in the French capital. The players have been training in South Paris Arena 4, their competition venue, since Sunday. And when they first walked into the [...]
PARIS, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — After spending the past several days inside a Team Korea bubble south of Paris, South Korean swimming medal hopefuls Kim Woo-min and Hwang Sun-woo trained in the French capital for the first time Monday ahead of the Olympic Games. It finally made them feel like the big competition was [...]