South Korea defeated North Korea 1-0 in a men's inter-Korean football match here on Tuesday.North Korean defender Ri Yong-chol committed an own goal in the second half as South Korea collected their first victory at the East Asian Football Federation E-1 Football Championship at Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo.South Korea, defending champions of this biennial event, were held to a 2-2 draw by China in their opening match on Saturday, while North Korea fell 1-0 to hosts Japan on the same day.This was

TOKYO -- South Korea on Tuesday confirmed St. Petersburg as their base camp for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.The Korea Football Association announced that South Korea's training base will be in the host nation's second-largest city. The team will stay at the New Peterhof hotel.Led by head coach Shin Tae-yong, South Korea are currently in Tokyo for the East Asian Football Federation E-1 Football Championship."St. Petersburg is quiet and provides a clean environment," said the KFA public affa

Tottenham Hotspur's attacker Son Heung-min has been named the top South Korean athlete of 2017 in a national survey.Gallup Korea said Tuesday that Son won the support of 38.1 percent of respondents to top national sports figures in its poll of 1,300 South Koreans over the age of 13. Son also came out on top in the 2015 survey.During the 2016-2017 season, the Premier Leaguer netted 21 goals in 46 matches in all competitions, setting the single season scoring record by a Korean player in Europe. H

CHIBA, Japan -- South Korean and North Korean female football players were not the only ones to go toe-to-toe at a regional tournament here on Monday, as supporters from both sides also engaged in some competition in the stands. South Korea and North Korea played their second match at the East Asian Football Federation E-1 Football Championship at Soga Sports Park in Chiba, Japan. South Korea suffered a 3-2 loss to hosts Japan in their opener on Friday, while North Korea collected a 2-0 win agai

Medals to be awarded at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Parlympics were unveiled Monday, with a nod to the Korean culture and traditions.The competition's organizing committee said the Paralympics medals are based on the same design principles of the medals for the Winter Olympics, in that both have been inspired by the Korean culture and its alphabet, hangeul. Lee Suk-woo, a South Korean industrial designer who designed the Olympic medals, also produced the Paralympic medals.The Paralympics will ta

The South Korean baseball club Doosan Bears announced their signing of American right-hander Josh Lindblom on Monday, parting ways with long-time ace Dustin Nippert in the process.The Korea Baseball Organization team said Lindblom agreed to a one-year deal worth $1.45 million. The 30-year-old will be entering his fourth KBO season; he'd spent the first three with the Lotte Giants.The contract talks between Lindblom and the Giants fell through last week. And only hours before the Bears made their

After his contract talks with the South Korean baseball club Lotte Giants fell through, American pitcher Josh Lindblom slammed the team for "a long history of dishonesty and unprofessionalism" on Monday.In a message tweeted both in English and Korean, the 30-year-old right-hander thanked fans of the Busan-based Korea Baseball Organization club for their support and said those fans deserve honesty.The Giants announced last Saturday that they weren't able to come to terms with Lindblom for his fou

Major League Baseball teams are increasingly relying on analytics to help generate revenue while faced with a myriad of challenges, a club executive said Monday.Joe Januszewski, executive vice president and chief revenue and marketing officer for the Texas Rangers, gave a presentation titled "Working in Major League Baseball: Building a Winner on and Off the Field" at the start of the annual Korea Baseball Organization  Winter Meeting in Seoul.Januszewski laid out primary revenue streams for big

Former Prime Minister Chung Un-chan was named the new head of South Korean professional baseball Monday.Chung will serve as the commissioner of the Korea Baseball Organization for three years starting in early 2018, after earning more than 75 percent of support from the owners of 10 clubs.Chung, 70, was nominated by the KBO's board of directors -- made up of 10 club presidents, current KBO Commissioner Koo Bon-neung and its Secretary-General Yang Hae-young -- on Nov. 29.  The board unanimously a

WASHINGTON -- The United States will send its full delegation of athletes to next year's Winter Olympics in South Korea's PyeongChang, an envoy said Sunday, amid confusion over US participation.US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said last week it was an "open question" whether the US would send its athletes to the February games, citing safety concerns sparked by increased military tensions with North Korea.Asked again Sunday whether the US would send its full team, Haley said, "Yes

Japan beat North Korea 1-0 Saturday with a 93rd-minute goal in the East Asian Championship amid a backdrop of serious tensions between the two nations. There were doubts the game could even go ahead with North Korean nationals currently banned from entering Japan as part of the sanctions against Pyongyang.Special visas were issued at the Japanese embassy in Beijing earlier in the week.North Korean soccer players in red jerseys (Yonhap)Pro-Pyongyang ethnic Koreans cheer for the North Korean natio

JINCHEON -- In an effort to boost its competitiveness in its Winter Olympic hockey debut in 2018, South Korea has fast-tracked a few Canadian-born players to Korean citizenship. Michael Swift, a skilled forward hailing from Peterborough, Ontario, is one of them.The 30-year-old understands the naturalization comes with the weight of expectations -- after all, the government wouldn't have issued these players new passports unless it felt they could help the national team at the 2018 PyeongChang Wi

INCHEON -- The 2018 Winter Games host city of PyeongChang fully respects the recent International Olympic Committee decision to ban Russia over doping, as both parties firmly believe in the value of clean and fair competition, the event's top organizer said.Lee Hee-beom, head of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics organizing committee, told Yonhap News Agency on Friday that PyeongChang has never wavered in its commitment to running a clean Olympic Games."We're of the stance that the Olympic Games mu

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has met with North Korea's Olympic body chief in Switzerland, a U.S. broadcaster said Saturday. Bach had a meeting with North Korea's Olympic Committee President Kim Il-guk at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Friday, according to Voice of America (VOA). VOA was citing an e-mail from the IOC's public affairs office. The IOC, however, didn't elaborate on what the two officials discussed, VOA said, adding that it was a mee

South Korean skeleton racer Yun Sung-bin has captured his third straight World Cup gold medal of the season in Germany. Yun won the fourth leg of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup in Winterberg, Germany, on Friday (local time) with a time of 56.62 seconds, beating his rival Martins Dukurs of Latvia by 0.06. Dave Greszczyszyn was third with 56.88. Originally, winners were to be determined after two runs, but due to heavy snow, IBSF decided not to race the second h