Lee Ho-joon (Daegu Metropolitan City), who shared the 200m freestyle final stage at the World Championships with Korean swimming sensation Hwang Sun-woo (Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province), said he was proud to have “grown so much that I can’t believe it.” The Korean swimming team arrived at Incheon Airport on July 31 after a successful World […]
South Korean women’s badminton standout Ahn Se-young (21-Samsung Life Insurance) has become the No. 1 women’s singles player in the world after winning her seventh title of the season at the Japan Open. According to the Korea Badminton Federation (KBF), Ahn earned 103,914 World Ranking points, surpassing Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi (101,917) to take the top […]
Women’s professional volleyball team Hyundai E&C defeated Pepper Savings Bank to extend its winning streak to two matches at the 2023 Gumi Dodram Cup Professional Volleyball Tournament (KOVO Cup). Hyundai E&C defeated Pepper Savings Bank 3-0 (25-21 25-16 25-19) in straight sets in the second match of Group B of the tournament at Park Jung-hee […]
For the fifth consecutive game, South Korean striker Hwang Eui-jo played in a preseason match for English professional soccer club Nottingham Forest. Nottingham lost. Nottingham fell 0-1 in a friendly against hosts Eindhoven at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on Aug. 31. After starting the game on the bench, Hwang came on for Chris […]
Chelsea have been crowned the inaugural champions of the English Premier League Summer Series. The Blues defeated Fulham 2-0 at FedEx Field in Maryland, USA, on July 31. Chelsea took a 1-0 lead in the 20th minute on a header from Tiago Siuba before June signing Christopher Nkunku added a 41st-minute goal to secure the […]
The Korean women’s sabre team has won a bronze medal in the team event at the World Championships for the first time in four years. The women’s sabre team of Yoon Ji-soo, Jeon Ha-young (Seoul Metropolitan Government), Jeon Eun-hye (Incheon Jung-gu Office), and Choi Se-bin (Jeonnam-do) finished third behind Hungary and France in the team […]
South Korean judo’s top heavyweight Kim Min-jong (22, Yangpyeong-guncheong) has won the gold medal at the 31st Chengdu Summer World University Games (Universiade), defeating Japan’s top hope Yuta Nakamura (21) in one bout. Kim Min-jong defeated Nakamura in the men’s 100-plus-kilogram final of the judo competition in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, on Aug. 31 by […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Yonhap) By Kyung-yoon Kim (Yonhap) Kim = Professional baseball has been a close affair this season, with no team falling far behind. The Samsung Lions, who slumped to the bottom of the standings after a severe slump in the first half of the season, have overhauled their offense and are on the […]
Busan=Yonhap) Reporter Shin Jung-hoon = The Busan Design Promotion Agency announced on Jan. 31 that a total of 67 teams and 268 people applied for the ‘2023 Surfboard Design Contest with a Story,’ the first surfboard design contest in Korea.In particular, participants from outside Busan, including Seoul and Gyeonggi, accounted for more than half of […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Yonhap) Jang Hyun-koo Reporter = KT WIZ, which has been on a winning streak since June, will use its ‘summer magic’ to jump to third place .KT, which was at the bottom of the leaderboard at the beginning of June, jumped to fifth place in less than two months, and now it […]
