With Park Ji-sung grabbing recent headlines with a string of impressive, and at times immense, performances for Manchester United, there haven’t been many column inches available for the remaining members of Korea’s foreign legion who have had mixed seasons.Park won a fourth English Premier League medal and is preparing for the May 28 UEFA Champions League final. There are few players either from

South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na left Sunday for Lausanne, Switzerland, to brief the International Olympic Committee on her country’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics in the eastern resort city of PyeongChang.Speaking to reporters at Incheon International Airport, South Korea’s main gateway located west of Seoul, the reigning Olympic gold medalist and 2009 world champion said she aimed to

 

DAEGU -- Asian Games medalist Park Tae-kyong believes Korean athletes have enough “potential” to make an impact at the upcoming athletics world championships.Daegu, some 300 kilometers south of Seoul, is preparing for the 13th IAAF World Championships slated for Aug. 27-Sept. 4. The biennial event is one of the world’s top three sporting events, along with the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. Beco

Three of the four South Korean K-League clubs have reached the knockout stage of the ongoing Asian Football Confederation Champions League, each of them securing home games in the next round.FC Seoul, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Suwon Samsung Bluewings finished with the best records in Groups F, G and H, respectively.Jeju United, the fourth K-League club in the competition, ended in third place in

North Korean wrestlers could come to South Korea early next year for a continental competition, an official here said Thursday.“South Korea will host the Asian Wrestling Championships from Feb. 16 to 19 next year, and there’s a high possibility that North Korea will enter the event,” an official with the Seoul-based Korea Wrestling Federation said.South Korea was named the host of the regional eve

Two Koreas invited to field joint team for Nov. tourneySouth Korea and North Korea have been invited to field a joint table tennis team at an upcoming international event designed to promote peace through sports, officials said.The International Table Tennis Federation and the Monaco-based Peace and Sport Foundation jointly announced Tuesday that their Peace and Sport Table Tennis Tournament will