SEOUL– Captain Kang Sang-woo converted the clinching spot kick as Pohang Steelers defeated their South Korean rivals Ulsan Hyundai FC on penalties Wednesday to reach the final of the top Asian club football tournament.After the teams were deadlocked a…
SEOUL– Ko Jin-young, world No. 2 in women’s golf closing in on the top spot, has arrived in the southeastern city of Busan in the midst of her best stretch of the LPGA season.She has won twice in her past four starts while also picking up a runner-up …
SEOUL– The playoff picture in South Korean baseball was murky enough entering Tuesday. And with four games of the day in the books, it isn’t any clearer.The Kiwoom Heroes stayed in the wild card hunt as the fifth seed in the Korea Baseball Organizatio…
SEOUL– South Korean military football club Gimcheon Sangmu earned a promotion back to the top-flight K League 1 on Sunday, one season after falling to the second division.Forward Cho Gue-sung scored the only goal of Gimcheon’s 1-0 victory over Bucheon…
SEOUL– Pohang Steelers reached the semifinals of the top Asian club football tournament with a 3-0 victory over Nagoya Grampus on Sunday.Lim Sang-hyub grabbed a brace and Lee Seung-mo added another for Pohang’s convincing win in the quarterfinals of t…
SEOUL– South Korean professional sports leagues welcomed the government’s decision on Friday to allow fully vaccinated people at sports games in the capital region, where teams have been playing in empty stadiums for the past three months during the f…
SEOUL– The South Korean baseball league welcomed the government’s decision on Friday to allow fully vaccinated people at outdoor sports games in the capital region, where teams have been playing in empty stadiums for the past three months during the f…
SEOUL– The sports ministry said Wednesday it has scrapped a plan to honor two-time Olympic short track speed skating champion Shim Suk-hee at its annual awards ceremony due to race-fixing allegations surrounding the athlete.The ministry is scheduled t…
SEOUL– The smash-hit Korean-language drama series “Squid Game” has become Netflix’s most successful original content, the U.S. streaming giant said Wednesday.Netflix said the dystopian series had been viewed by more than 111 million accounts in the fi…
GIMCHEON, South Korea– Teen swimming sensation Hwang Sun-woo broke the national record in the men’s 200m individual medley (IM) on Tuesday, surpassing South Korea’s only Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan for the third time in his burgeoning care…
SEOUL– South Korean Olympic short track speed skating champion Shim Suk-hee has been dropped from the national team, the sport’s national federation said Monday, over controversial text messages suggesting a possible race fixing during the 2018 Winter…
SEOUL– South Korea will face their biggest challenge yet in the final Asian qualifying round for the 2022 FIFA World Cup on Tuesday, when they visit Iran in their first away match of the ongoing phase.With Iran being the highest-ranked Asian team at N…