South Korea announced Sunday high jumper Woo Sang-hyeok and swimmer Kim Seo-yeong will be its flag bearers at the opening ceremony for the Paris Summer Olympics. Lee Kee-heung, president of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee, made the announcement during an open house event at the South Korean training camp at the National Sports Center…
Undone by a late bogey, Korean sophomore Ryu Hae-ran has just missed out on her second career LPGA Tour win. Ryu finished alone in second place at the Dana Open at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, on Sunday (local time), after shooting a six-under 65 in the final round for a four-round total…
The number of registered vehicles in Korea rose 0.7 percent in the first half to over 26 million, helped by environment friendly models, government data showed Sunday. Accumulated car registrations came to 26.13 million units as of end-June, up from 25.95 million at the end of 2023, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said…
Lee Isaac Chung, the Korean American director known for his Oscar-winning film “Minari,” is making waves in the U.S. box office with his disaster film “Twisters.” “Twisters,” a sequel to the 1996 film “Twister,” debuted in 4,151 theaters across the United States and Canada last Friday, earning $32.2 million in ticket sales on its opening…
North Korea launched another flotilla of trash-filled balloons toward South Korea, Sunday, just three days after Seoul resumed daily propaganda broadcasts along the border in a tit-for-tat move to counter Pyongyang’s balloon offensive on Thursday. This latest launch marks the North’s ninth “balloon offensive” since the first one in late May. In response, the South’s…
Combined household loans from the five major banks surged by more than 3.6 trillion won ($2.6 billion) this month despite financial authorities’ ongoing efforts to curb the growth of household debt, according to industry officials, Sunday. Analysts attributed the rise to falling market interest rates that resulted in an increase in real estate transactions. The…
A civic group filed a complaint Monday against Chung Mong-gyu, president of the Korea Football Association (KFA), over the recent controversial hiring of Hong Myung-bo as the new men’s national team head coach. The civic group, which calls itself the People’s Livelihood Countermeasures Committee, said it submitted the complaint to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency,…
Korea has yet to win more than two medals in swimming at any single Olympics. Swimmers set to compete in Paris this summer believe they can top that total. Led by a pair of reigning world champions in Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min, the national swimming team departed for France on Tuesday. Hwang, the men’s…
After eight years, four tournaments and two finals, Gareth Southgate announced he was stepping down as England manager on Tuesday, saying it was “time for change.” Sunday’s 2-1 loss to Spain in the European Championship final proved to be his last game in charge of the national team. “As a proud Englishman, it has been…
With controversy surrounding the Korea Football Association (KFA)’s hiring of the new men’s national team head coach not dying down, both the sports ministry and the state-run Korea Sports Ethics Center have said they will investigate the national football body for any procedural issues. The KFA has been under fire since appointing Hong Myung-bo as…