GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- The South Korean female curling team clinched first place in round robin on Wednesday with a win over the Olympic Athletes from Russia at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The home team won for the sixth straight time as it defeated the OAR 11-2. South Korea, with seven wins and just one loss so far, had already qualified to move on to the semifinal as of Tuesday. South Korea will wrap up the round robin session against Denmark later Wednesday. The South Korean female cu

Korea will try to snatch medals in three short track speed skating competitions on Wednesday.Male short track skaters Lim Hyo-jun, Kim Do-kyoum, Hwang Dae-heon and Kwak Yoon-gy will compete in the 5,000m relay finals at Gangneung Ice Arena. In the a heat event on Feb. 13, the four skaters clocked 6:34.510, beating the previous Olympic record of 6:36.605, held by China.The country will also compete in the quarterfinals of the men's 500m and women's 1,000m on the same day. The semifinals and the f

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- South Korea's lone Nordic combined skier Park Je-un said Tuesday his first Winter Olympic Games have been a learning experience. Park ended his Olympic campaign by finishing last among 47 contestants who completed the individual Gundersen large hill/10-kilometer event at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, with a time of 31 minutes, 28.8 seconds. He was 7:36.3 behind gold medalist Johannes Rydzek of Germany"I will never forget this Olympics," he said. "It's just a pity t

GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- Canadian-born South Korean hockey forward Brock Radunske dedicated his first Olympic goal on Tuesday to the partisan fans who supported the team.Radunske, the first foreign native to be naturalized on the men's hockey team here, scored South Korea's first goal in its 5-2 loss to Finland in the qualification playoff match of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. With several thousand fans packing Gangneung Hockey Center, South Korea was down 3-0 when Radunske put the home tea

GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- South Korean short tracker Shim Suk-hee, one of the most anticipated athletes of Team Korea at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, on Tuesday finally won her first medal, after falling short of the podium in previous events.The South Korean team won the women's 3,000 meter relay.The 21-year-old skater raked in three medals at the 2014 Winter Games as a high school student, emerging as a prominent medal hopeful in PyeongChang. In Sochi, Shim captured gold in the 3,000

South Korea won the gold medal in the women’s 3,000 meters short track speedskating relay finals on Tuesday. Shim Suk-hee, Choi Min-jeong, Kim A-lang and Kim Ye-jin competed in the women’s 3,000 finals against the Chinese, Italian and Canadian teams at Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, one of two cities in Gangwon Province hosting the Winter Games. (Yonhap)Choi, already a gold medalist in the women’s 1,500 meters on Saturday, finished the race in 4:07.361, closely trailed by China’s Qu Chunyu. T

South Korea has secured its place in the final four of women’s curling at the PyeongChang Winter Games, beating the United States 9-6 on Tuesday. The team of four Kims -- Kim Yeong-mi, Kim Seon-yeong, Kim Kyeong-ae and Kim Eun-jung -- will next play in the semifinals Friday, against a yet to be determined opponent. The team has won six matches and lost one, to Japan, in the round-robin preliminaries.Tuesday’s win at the Gangneung Curling Centre marks the first time South Korea has made the semif

Speedskater Lee Sang-wha uploaded a picture with archrival and friend Nao Kodaira on Monday via her Instagram account, a few hours after capturing the silver in the women’s 500 meters. The post instantly garnered a torrent of likes and support messages from fans.Min Yu-ra and Alexander Gamelin (Yonhap)After certain wardrobe malfunctions put ice dancer Min Yu-ra in an awkward situation during her pairs routine with partner Alexander Gamelin on Feb. 10, Instagram users came to vigorously cheer her

　Competitors launch themselves from a takeoff ramp in an effort to fly as far as they can before touching down in the landing zone. 　Five judges mark competitors for distance and style. The four events are: men's normal hill individual, women's normal hill individual, men's large hill individual and men's team.

GANGNEUNG -- Korea's women's curling team on Tuesday extended its winning streak to five games and captured a ticket to the semifinals for the first time at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.Korea rallied for a comeback win to beat the United States 9-6 in the round-robin preliminaries at the Gangneung Curling Center.Korea`s women`s curling team high-fives after winning a round-robin match against the United States at the Gangneung Curling Center during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Feb. 20,

There was something odd about the way the South Korean female skaters performed in the 500-meter team pursuit quarterfinals event at PyeongChang on Monday. 　　The three-member team -- Kim Bo-reum, Noh Seon-yeong and Park Ji-woo -- looked almost as if they were competing in an individual race, not a team pursuit. When Noh Seon-yeong, one of the team members, fell a long way behind during the race, the remaining two skaters -- Park and Kim -- left her behind and crossed the finish line without her.

Unified Korean female hockey team ends competition

Skip Kim Eun-jeong of the South Korean curling team, also known as “Annie,” sparked a torrent of online comments Tuesday, as multiple pictures of her standing next to a mystery man circulated via online communities.   (Screen capture from social media)In the pictures, Kim appears ecstatic and all smiles. She is seen holding hands with a broad-shouldered man. Curious fans commented beneath the post trying to figure out the man’s identity. Playing detective, one fan has speculated the man is surna

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- South Korean freestyle skier Lee Kang-bok failed to reach the finals of the men's ski halfpipe at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Tuesday.Lee finished last among 27 skiers with a score of 13.00 points and failed to advance to the final round, which is open only to the top 12 competitors. The qualification round has two runs and only the best run counts. Lee had only 5.8 points in his first run at Phoenix Snow Park in PyeongChang, 180 kilometers east of Seoul,

With five days left of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Korea’s teams are faring well overall, most recently gaining two more silver medals.Korea’s ace female speedskater Lee Sang-hwa won her third Olympic medal on Sunday in the women’s 500-meter event wrought with emotion. Claiming the silver, Lee fell just short of pulling off a three-time consecutive Olympic gold streak but received thunderous support from the crowd.Cha Min-kyu clinched a surprise silver in men’s speedskating 500 on Monday, c