SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has retained its board membership in the world’s top sports anti-doping body, officials here said Wednesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said South Korea was re-elected as an Asian representative on the Foundation Board at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Asian countries cast their votes [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Golf is considered as a “luxury sport” in Korea, as fees at most courses are beyond the means of the average Korean. And for this reason, it is also closely associated with political and business socializing. But this may no longer be so with Korea’s new anti-graft law changing [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A symposium taking place on October 20 and 21 at Korea National Sport University (KNSU) will focus predominantly on one subject: a statistical approach to detecting match fixing. Although match fixing is a persistent issue faced by the sports industry, because is often done discreetly between individuals, the activities [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Oksu Elementary School became the first in the country to establish a “virtual reality gym class”, allowing students to engage in sports activities using VR technology. According to a school official, the ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) helped remodel one of the classrooms at Oksu Elementary in [...]
Rio de Janeiro, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea may be the most isolated country in the world, but its athletes have been actively participating in various international sporting events. And to no disappointment, 31 North Korean athletes (11 men, 20 women) will take part in nine events – athletics, swimming, table tennis, wrestling, archery, [...]
CHUNCHEON, South Korea, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The world’s biggest leisure sports festival will be held in the country’s northeastern lake city of Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, next month with foreign and local participants competing in 14 sports events, organizers said Wednesday. The fifth edition of the Chuncheon International Leisure Sports Festival will run from [...]
INCHEON, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean city Incheon is looking to host the headquarters of the top Asian sports governing body in a bid to raise the city’s international profile, officials said Friday. The Incheon municipal government said it has recently submitted an offer to the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) that the [...]
![[Feature] Travel Accessibility for the Handicapped: Nowhere Near Adequate](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/6612258681_9c222042dc_z.jpg "[Feature] Travel Accessibility for the Handicapped: Nowhere Near Adequate")
SEOUL, Korea, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – As the weather gets warmer, people tend to travel more. The urge to go and spend days away from home is common to all regardless of age, gender, and physical state. Still, however, there are many places out there not so friendly to the handicapped including senior citizens [...]
Seoul, Korea, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – To the great anticipation and interest of the expatriate community in Seoul, the Institute of International Education of Chung-Ang University has officially opened CAU KID’S GLOBAL CLUB to membership registration. Providing the foundation for the growth and development of children and the building of friendships, CAU KID’S GLOBAL [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s first “resort house complex” will be built near Chuncheon, 70 kilometers northeast Seoul. Hanwon Group, the real estate developer with experience in building apartments, residential-commercial complexes, shopping malls, and golf courses for the past 20 years, said recently that it would set to develop resort houses “The Spring” near the [...]