SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The western city of Incheon will host South Korea’s first World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions competition this week, bringing some of the world’s top ping pong players to a brand new venue. The WTT Champions Incheon will be the first WTT Series event to be held in South Korea, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The aftermath of the so-called “Table Tennis Gate” incident, involving a physical altercation between players of the Korean national football team ahead of the Asian Cup semi-finals, is now affecting the retail sector. The controversy centers around Son Heung-min and Lee Kang-in, whose affiliations with different brands have led to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been several years in the making, but the southeastern port city of Busan will finally host the world championships in table tennis starting this week. Busan, 320 kilometers from Seoul, will hold the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Team Table Tennis Championships from Friday to Feb. [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS member V’s message supporting self-proclaimed BTS fan and teenage ping pong sensation Shin Yu-bin has gone viral. Shin Yu-bin, the youngest member of the South Korean women’s table tennis team at 17, is a fan of the South Korean supergroup. Shin, who beat Luxembourg’s Xia Lian Ni, a [...]