South Korean football club Jeju United said Tuesday they've reacquired Australian defender Alexsandar Jovanovic.The K League Classic club said they've signed the 27-year-old center back, better known as Alex here, from Chinese club Tianjin Teda. The details of the footballer's contract w
South Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh won the grand prize at the nation's amateur athlete awards ceremony Tuesday for his performance at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.At the annual Coca-Cola Sports Awards in Seoul, Jin was honored with the MVP Award. The award has been given to amateur athletes since 1
The world's top winter sports stars will be in South Korea this week to compete at test events for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games, the organizers said Monday.This week will be the busiest week for the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games (POC
South Korean mogul skier Seo Jung-hwa said she has earned confidence ahead of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics after posting a strong result at an International Ski Federation (FIS) competition here on Saturday.Seo finished sixth in the women's moguls competition with a score of 73.50 at the
Two South Korean male aerial skiers said Friday their first ever International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup has served a good teaching ground ahead of the Winter Olympics next here.Kim Nam-jeen and Yoon Gi-chan failed to qualify for the men's aerials finals at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup i
The secret to South Korean Lee Sang-hwa's success at the speed skating world championships Friday was rather straightforward: sticking to her own race plan.Lee took the silver medal in the women's 500m at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Single Distances Speed Skating Championship
South Korea's media content production grew at a pace faster than the growth rate recorded in the global market in 2015, securing the country a status as the world's seventh largest content creator, a state agency said Sunday.South Korea's media content market stood at US$52 billion as o
South Korea will host Syria in an upcoming World Cup qualifying match in the capital city, the national football federation said Thursday.The Korea Football Association (KFA) said South Korea and Syria will clash at Seoul World Cup Stadium at 8 p.m. on March 28. It will be South Korea's seventh
HWACHEON, South Korea, Jan. 31 (Yonhap) -- The ongoing 2017 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival has crossed the 100,000 mark in the number of foreigners visiting the event, reconfirming its fame as one of the world's four biggest winter festivals, the organizer said Tuesday."The number of foreigne
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- Major Seoul-bound expressways across South Korea were congested Sunday as people returned from the Lunar New Year's holiday.Rain or snow in many areas worsened traffic jams.Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans spent a few days in their hometowns for Lunar New Year
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korean golfer Wang Jeung-hun earned his third career European Tour victory in Qatar on Sunday.Wang captured the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters at Doha Golf Club in Doha in a playoff. He ended the regulation tied at 16-under with Joakim Lagergren of Sweden and Jaco Van
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's cosmetics industry saw its exports rise by more than 40 percent last year in large part thanks to Chinese consumers' bigger spending power and their increasing interests in grooming and beauty products, industry experts said Sunday.According to data f
BUCHEON, South Korea, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean comic book "Bad Friend" received an award at a global comics festival, Korea Manhwa Contents Agency (KOMACON) said Sunday.The book by a South Korean cartoonist, who goes by her pen name Ancco, was awarded the Prix Revelation at the 44th An
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korean football club Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors have appealed to the world's top sports tribunal over a ban from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League.The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) released a statement on Saturday (Korean time) that the r
President Moon Sang-joo of the Korea Occupational Training College in Seoul said, “We are now living in an era of unlimited competition in a world where there are no walls or partitions or national boundaries in the area of industrial environment.” Speaking at a recent interview with
The Yeongam Wangin Culture Festival, an annual culture festival held in April every year hosted by the Yeongam County, was designated as the most promising culture and tourism festival by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for the third consecutive year in 2017.To celebrate the birth and ou
Governor Kim Kwan-yong of the Gyeongsangbuk-do Province and Mayor Choi Yang-sik of the Gyeongju City are making an all-out effort to attain another great success of the Gyeongju Culture Expo--this time in Vietnam. This was disclosed at a recent interview with Chief Director Young Lee of the Internat
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- Tight family budgets and the anti-corruption law seem to be dampening the Lunar New Year holiday, hitting retailers who are seeing record poor gift sales during what used to be a peak season, industry officials said Tuesday.The Lunar New Year, one of the most celebrated ho
Director Kim Jung-ki for Public Relations and New Business at the Millennium Hilton Seoul Hotel has been practicing boxing as a hobby, and has won 7 Dan (Grade), pretty high considering the highest Dan in Korea is 9.Kim has had a number of friendly bouts at the gym and won numerous awards. The lates
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