The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games kicked off on Friday with an opening ceremony emphasizing passion and coexistence.Taking "Passion Moves Us" as its theme, the opening ceremony of the first Winter Paralympics in South Korea took place at the 35,000-seat Olympic Stadium in PyeongChang, G

The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games kicked off on Friday with an opening ceremony emphasizing passion and coexistence.Taking "Passion Moves Us" as its theme, the opening ceremony of the first Winter Paralympics in South Korea took place at the 35,000-seat Olympic Stadium in PyeongChang, G

South Korea's wheelchair curling team for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics said Friday it wants to write a success story like the women's curling team did at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.The women's curling team earned silver at the Feb. 9-25 Olympics and became a global sensation w

Veteran South Korean skater Lee Seung-hoon became the inaugural Olympic champion in men's mass start speed skating, at the PyeongChang Winter Games on Saturday.He made a last-minute spurt to cross the finish line first in the men's mass start final held in the Gangneung Oval. Belgium's B

South Korea defeated Japan on Friday and advanced to the PyeongChang Olympics women's curling finals for the first time.In the semifinals held at the Pyeongchang Curling Centre, the quartet led by skip, or captain, Kim Eun-jung, pulled off an 8-7 victory over Japan, which gave the only loss to t

Four out of five South Korean male speed skaters made their Winter Olympic debut at PyeongChang 2018 this month, and to a man, they said they couldn't have asked for a better learning experience.And they mostly learned their lessons the hard way.Lim Hyo-jun, 21, was the only South Korean man to

South Korean short track speed skater Choi Min-jeong became the host country's first double gold medalist at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Tuesday, and took a step closer to a rare milestone.Choi helped South Korea to the gold medal in the women's 3,000-meter relay, at Gangneung Ice Are

South Korea's speed skating sprinter Lee Sang-hwa, the defending Olympic champion, won silver in the women's 500 meter race at the PyeongChang Winter Games on Sunday.In the event's finals at the Gangneung Oval, Lee clocked in at 37.33, 0.39 second behind winner Nao Kodaira of Japan, who

South Korea's Yun Sung-bin, who won the gold medal in the men's skeleton event at the PyeongChang Winter Games, said Friday he focused on winning by imagining himself on the Olympic podium.Yun won gold with a combined time of 3 minutes, 20.55 seconds after four heats at the Olympic Sliding C

South Korean men's hockey players entered their first Olympic match against the Czech Republic on Thursday with a chip on their shoulders, perhaps the only group of people inside Gangneung Hockey Centre who believed South Korea could win this game.On paper, this shouldn't have been as close

Host South Korea wasted little time picking up its first gold medal of these PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games, as short track speed skater Lim Hyo-jun won the men's 1,500-meter title. Lim crossed the finish line in an Olympic record time of 2:10.485 at Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, the sub-h

The joint Korean women's hockey team will look to have a bounceback game against Sweden in its second game of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Monday.Korea was hammered by the sixth-ranked Switzerland 8-0 on Saturday at Kwandong Hockey Centre in Gangneung, the host city of all ice events, loca

South Korean bobsledder Won Yun-jong partnered with North Korean hockey player Hwang Chung-gum to carry one flag together at the opening ceremony of the 23rd Winter Games here on Friday, showing moments of unification in the name of sports.The South and the North Korean athletes marched together und

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with North Korea's ceremonial head of state in South Korea and delivered his hope for a peaceful denuclearization of the isolated state, a spokesman said Friday.Guterres met with Kim Yong-nam at a dinner marking the opening of the PyeongChang Winter Ol

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said the U.S. and its allies remain fully prepared to defend themselves from any threat posed by North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.Pence, who was in South Korea leading the U.S. delegation to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, made the remark in an

South Korean President Moon Jae-in sought to win international support for his country's recently resumed dialogue with North Korea on Friday, noting such an opportunity may have not come in the first place if not for the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games."Today, many heads of state and leaders

The 2018 Olympic Winter Games kicked off in PyeongChang on Friday with an opening ceremony themed around peace and future. The two-hour ceremomy was highlighted by a rare joint march by athletes from the two Koreas. The opening ceremony of the first Winter Olympics in South Korea took place

Jeon Dong-pyeong, mayor of Yeongnam County in South Jeolla Province, has won the coveted “2018 Korea CEO Leadership Award” for two years in a row, which proves his dedication to innovative leadership in local administration. He was awarded the honor from the leading national daily, Joong-Ang Ilbo, o

International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesman Mark Adams said Saturday that people who plan to visit PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, for the Winter Olympics opening ceremony should "wrap up" for cold weather.During a press briefing on an IOC Executive Board meeting, Adams said he is aware of the

North Korea has been invited to participate in the Paralympic Games in South Korea next month, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said Friday.The IPC said that it has invited North Korea to take part in its first Winter Paralympics and offered two bipartite slots to athletes to compete in