South Korea on Thursday marked the start of the 50-day countdown to the PyeongChang Paralympic Games amid rising expectations for North Korea's first Winter Paralympics appearance. The PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games held an event to promote the upcoming Paralympics at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul with some 200 guests, including athletes, families and volunteers. Notable attendees included first lady Kim Jung-sook, POCOG President Lee Hee-beom, Vice

South Korean first lady Kim Jung-sook called on the people Thursday to show their support and interest in the Paralympic Games, which will be held in the country, insisting that the success of the preceding Winter Olympic Games depends on the success of the Paralympics.In a ceremony aimed at promoting the PyeongChang Paralympic Games, Kim said truly perfect Olympic Games depend on the success of the Paralympic Games."And true success of the Paralympic Games depends on your interest and purchase

As South Korea is pushing for a joint women's hockey team with North Korea for the upcoming Winter Olympics, one of its opponents is none too pleased with the prospect of facing an expanded roster in the tournament.South Korea is looking to add a few extra North Korean players at the Feb. 9-25 PyeongChang Winter Games. The two sides are scheduled to further discuss the issue later Wednesday.South Korea's first game is against Switzerland on Feb. 10 in Group B action. While Olympic hockey rosters

INCHEON -- North Korea doesn't have enough talent to make a difference for South Korea in women's hockey even if a joint team is assembled for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, South Korea head coach said Tuesday.Sarah Murray, who returned from the team's U.S. training camp, said she only heard about Seoul's push for the single Korean hockey team two days ago -- and from her staff and other journalists at that, not from any government officials. South Korea proposed the idea to North Korea during

During the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games, most athletes will be eating at restaurants in the two Olympic villages in PyeongChang and Gangneung, where the Olympics will take place from Feb. 9-25, followed by the 10-day Paralympics, which will kick off on March 9. Food safety inspectors monitor samples of food and beverage for athletes on Monday at a laboratory vehicle set up near the Olympic Village restaurant in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province. The Ministry of Food and Drug

The organizers of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Tuesday South Korea's lone International Olympic Committee member Ryu Seung-min and former short track speed skater Kim Ki-hoon will serve as "mayors" of the athletes' villages. The PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games said Ryu, a member of the IOC Athletes' Commission, will manage the PyeongChang Olympic Village and Kim, who delivered South Korea's first Winter Olympics gold medal in 1992, will b

China will likely send a delegation led by a high-ranking communist party official to South Korea during next month's Winter Olympic Games, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.China has recently informed South Korea that Han Zheng, No. 7 in the Communist Party of China, will make a trip to South Korea in time for the Feb. 9-25 Winter Olympics, which will be held in the South's alpine town of PyeongChang, according to the sources. "Currently, South Korea and China are fine-tuning relevant matters and

PARIS (AFP) - The referee who kicked a player during a French Ligue 1 game and then sent him off has been suspended "until further notice", the French Football Federation said on Monday.   Tony Chapron kicked Diego Carlos of Nantes towards the end of Sunday's game against Paris Saint-Germain after being knocked over when the pair collided in a bizarre incident.   Chapron then showed the player a second yellow card.(Yonhap-EPA)  The FFF's technical committee of referees said Chapron had been "wit

The torch for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics will reach the host region of Gangwon Province next week, organizers said Monday.Starting in Cheorwon County on Sunday, the torch will travel through 18 major cities and towns in the eastern province before reaching the host county of PyeongChang for the Feb. 9 opening ceremony of the country's first Winter Games. The Olympics will run through Feb. 25.The combined distance covered by the torch relay, which started on Nov. 1, will reach 2,018 kil

Three former Canadian soldiers will visit South Korea this week for a symbolic ice hockey game to celebrate the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, six decades after their participation in the Korean War, a ministry here said Monday.The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs has invited the three men -- Dennis Moore, Claude Charland and John Bishop -- to a six-day program to start on Wednesday. All of them are in their 80s. Canadian troops play an ice hockey game on the frozen Imjin River durin

　North Korea is expected to send a delegation of around 400 to 500 people to South Korea for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics from Feb. 9-25.　The North has sent delegations to four different international sports events hosted by the South, the last of which was the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. Hwang Pyong-so, then-North Korea’s vice marshal of the Korean People’s Army, attended the games’ closing ceremony.

South Korean attacker Son Heung-min has bagged one goal and one assist in his latest performance for Tottenham Hotspur. Son scored the opening goal in the Spurs' 4-0 win over Everton in their English Premier League match at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday. This was Son's eighth Premier League goal and his 11th total in the 2017-18 season. He also has three goals in the UEFA Champions League. The goal against Everton also made Son only the second player to score in five consecutive home Pre

The torch for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games arrived in Seoul on Saturday for a four-day relay event throughout the capital city.The torch relay will be held in the city until Tuesday in a course that spans 103 kilometers, with some 600 torchbearers joining the race, according to officials at the Seoul Metropolitan Government.It marks the first time in nearly 30 years for the capital city to hold a torch relay event since the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul. The 2018 Winter Games will kick

South Korea's highest-ranking military officer inspected the preparedness of the country's troops Friday for the security of the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games.Gen. Jeong Kyeong-doo, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), reaffirmed that the military will provide "maximum support" for the success of the quadrennial event to open next month in the eastern province of Gangwon, according to the JCS.He was visiting the ad-hoc "on-site command posts" in PyeongChang and Gangneung, whe

South Korea's Paralympic committee said Friday it is preparing to invite North Korea to the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics, which are slated for March, amid hope of inter-Korean reconciliation through sporting events.During the first official talks between the two Koreas in more than two years, North Korea said earlier this week that it plans to send a delegation of athletes to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, also raising the possibility that the North could join the Paralympic Games in March."