SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean sports industry couldn’t dodge the impact from the coronavirus after it decided to delay matches in all four major sports leagues. The Women’s Korean Basketball League (WKBL) assembled its board on Sunday and decided to shut down the league from March 10 to March 28. “We [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — If a volleyball player hits a spike, and no fan is around to witness it, does it make a sound? Imagine playing volleyball in an empty arena of 5,000 seats. It can be exactly as eerie and disorienting as it sounds. We’re not talking about some recreational match by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Queer Women’s Network, a women’s rights advocacy group for sexual minorities, hosted a women’s sexual minority athletic competition Sunday at KBS Sports World Hall 2 in Seoul. The “Queer Women Games” were first held last year with the aim of creating a culture in which women and sexual [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Men’s volleyball had the highest percentage of female fans among South Korean professional sports last year, a survey showed Friday. The Korea Professional Sports Association (KPSA) released findings of its study on fans in five professional sports leagues in the country: baseball, football, volleyball, basketball and golf. The survey [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Increasing numbers of South Korean women and senior citizens are participating in sports activities, a poll showed Wednesday. The poll of 9,000 people older than 10 nationwide by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism found that 62.2 percent regularly took part in more than one sports activity per [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog said Tuesday that it will launch a full-dress probe into human rights conditions in sports circles, which are under harsh criticism in the wake of sexual assault allegations raised by athletes earlier this month. “The National Human Rights Commission will create a special investigation [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday unveiled a set of measures to wipe out sexual assault and abuse in sports following a sex crime case involving an Olympic short track gold medalist. The sports ministry issued an apology and introduced measures to prevent and eliminate sexual misconduct in the country’s sports [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — There was such a striking contrast. South Korean men’s football team and baseball team both won gold medals at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia on Sept. 1. But you couldn’t tell it by the way they were received by fans, both during their run to the top and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced Friday it will seek to professionalize its traditional martial art of taekwondo and make it more accessible to a wider population. The sports ministry, in conjunction with four taekwondo organizations (World Taekwondo, Korea Taekwondo Association, Kukkiwon and Taekwondo Promotion Foundation), announced strategies and policy goals to [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The UL International Crown, a fledgling women’s match play competition put together by the LPGA Tour, is here to stay as it provides a “unique” opportunity for fans and players alike, the tour’s top official said Monday. LPGA Tour Commissioner Mike Whan said the International Crown, which was first [...]