The pair of Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yoo-bin, who are hoping to win a medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, have been drawn to face China in the semifinals…
South Korea’s men’s sabre team has moved into the Olympic Village to begin its final preparations for a third consecutive Olympic team title….
As the Paris 2024 Olympics begins its medal race in earnest on Nov. 27 (local time), the day after the opening ceremony, many are wondering if the Korean…
Sibling golfers Lee Min-ji and Min-woo Lee, who have Korean parents, have teamed up to represent Australia at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The siblings…
Kia Tigers closer Jung Hai-young, the top vote-getter for the All-Star Game, will miss the midseason exhibition due to shoulder injury, his manager said Tuesday. The Tigers put Jung on the injured list on Monday with rotator cuff tendinitis in his right shoulder. The Tigers initially held out hope that Jung would be able to […]
Over the first two months of his first season in Korea, left-handed pitcher Dietrich Enns went from winning his Opening Day start for the defending champions LG Twins to having his manager declaring that his job was in jeopardy. Along the way, though, the 33-year-old American has been trying to block out distractions and focus […]
Tickets for summer exhibition matches in Seoul involving Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur have all sold out, organizers announced Saturday. Korean streaming service Coupang Play said tickets for two matches in the “2024 Coupang Play Series” were all snapped up after going on sale at 8 p.m. Friday on its website. Tickets were only available […]
Germany is through to the quarter finals of a major tournament for the first time in eight years, but clouds remain for Julian Nagelsmann’s Euro 2024 hosts. The home side won 2-0 in Dortmund, coming up not only against a determined and organised Denmark, but also a 25-minute thunderstorm delay which derailed Germany’s early momentum. […]
Fears of further rises in the prices of goods and services are mounting, amplified by a nearly 8 percent year-to-date unmuted depreciation of Korea’s currency against the U.S. dollar, market watchers said Monday. The weaker currency-oriented spikes in import prices combined with stalled rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) are major monetary policy […]
The number of young Koreans who opted out of the job market in May was recorded at about 400,000, the highest since 2020. Despite the government’s measures announced last year to integrate this group into the labor market, their number increased again after nine months as the number of full-time jobs decreased. According to a […]