SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has named two national players who won silver medals in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games mixed doubles event as among the top 10 athletes of the year, state media reported Wednesday. Ri Jong-sik and Kim Kum-yong, who brought home North Korea’s first medal in the Paris Olympics, [...]
PARIS, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has reached its gold medal target at the Paris Paralympics, as Kim Gi-tae grabbed his first career title in men’s table tennis. Kim defeated Chen Po Yen of Chinese Taipei 3-1 (3-11, 15-13, 11-7, 11-9) to win the men’s singles (MS11 classification) title at South Paris Arena [...]
PARIS, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea did not pick up a medal at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, only the second time the country failed to add to its tally since the race began on July 27. Instead, both the men’s and women’s table tennis teams progressed to the next stages in their [...]
PARIS, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea extended its medal-winning streak to four days at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, picking up a bronze medal each in table tennis and judo. The first medal of the day was a drought buster, as Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin captured the bronze medal in the mixed [...]
PARIS, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — After flying 14 hours to Paris, the South Korean table tennis team for the upcoming Olympics has found a home away from home in the French capital. The players have been training in South Paris Arena 4, their competition venue, since Sunday. And when they first walked into the [...]
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 [...]