SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — From domestic baseball and football contests to international tennis matches, there will be no shortage of sports action to keep fans in South Korea entertained during the five-day Chuseok holiday. The regular season in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) is winding down, and this has been the most successful [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korean department stores struggle with sluggish consumer spending due to high inflation, sports merchandise sections have become an unexpected source of growth. According to reports from the country’s three major department store chains on August 18, sales in their sports categories increased by approximately 10% in the first [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent revelations about badminton star An Se-young’s seven-year stint as the national team’s de facto launderer and cleaner have reignited discussions about the treatment of junior athletes in South Korean sports, bringing renewed attention to volleyball icon Kim Yeon-koung’s past comments on the issue. An, 22, who joined the national [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — With community sports centers for the disabled opening across the nation and a high-quality national training center in place for elite disabled athletes, South Korea is providing “a blueprint” for others when it comes to developing Paralympic sports, the global leader of the Paralympics said Thursday. In a written [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) –The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of South Korea announced that photos of actress Suzy wearing traditional Korean attire, hanbok, will be featured on the electronic billboards at Times Square in New York on Christmas Eve. The images will be displayed from 6 a.m. on December 24 to 2 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Tuesday it has sent a delegation of sports officials to attend a forum in the Russian city of Perm in another exchange between the two countries seeking to strengthen military ties. A delegation led by Sports Minister Kim Il-guk departed the previous day to attend the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Many South Koreans with disabilities are refraining from exercising outdoors despite the dwindling impacts of the pandemic, a survey showed Monday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism conducted a survey of 10,000 registered disabled persons in the country between the ages of 10 and 69, which showed that only 26.6 [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With COVID-19 social distancing restrictions in the rearview mirror, transactions of used sports and water play items increased sharply in South Korea. Online secondhand marketplace Bungaejangter analyzed the change in the number of transactions in its sports and leisure categories for three months before and after the lifting of [...]
LONDON and ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The detection of a record number of suspicious matches exposes the serious, ongoing threat match-fixing presents to the integrity of global sport at all levels as the amount of money bet on sports reached record heights in 2021. This is a key finding of a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A surge in coronavirus cases has been wreaking havoc on playing schedules in South Korean professional sports this month, an eerie deja vu to previous springs when seasons were postponed or even canceled outright at the onset of the pandemic. The top two divisions in pro football just had [...]