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, [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Koreans expressed outrage on Tuesday over what they perceived as egregious refereeing against some of the country’s short track speed skaters at the Beijing Winter Olympics this week. In the men’s 1,000m semifinals on Monday, South Korea’s Hwang Dae-heon and Lee June-seo each got disqualified from their [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The leadup to the Beijing Winter Olympics for the South Korean women’s short track speed skating team has been quite tumultuous, with a career-damaging scandal ruling out a former champion and a devastating injury sidelining a potential medal contender. Combine that with fairly low expectations for the squad, and [...]
GOYANG, South Korea, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The leaders of the South Korean men’s and women’s short track speed skating teams said Wednesday they both felt a sense of relief when the PyeongChang Winter Olympics ended. Kwak Yoon-gy, 26, and Kim A-lang, 22, were the oldest athletes on the men’s and women’s teams at PyeongChang 2018, where South Korea grabbed [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 18 (Korea Bizwire) – As Viktor Ahn (also known as Ahn Hyun-soo) keeps winning medals in short track speed skating for his adopted country of Russia, Korea’s politicians are quick to make critical comments on factionalism within the athletic community and discuss ways to prevent recurrence of such an unfortunate incident that led [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Last February 10, Viktor Ahn, 28, debuted as a Russian speed skater in the ongoing Sochi Winter Olympic Games and won the bronze medal in the 1,500-meter short-track race, the fifth medal for Team Russia in the games.When he went up the podium, Russian fans all stood and sent [...]