We often measure success at the Olympics by the color of medals. As the men's hockey team goaltender Matt Dalton sees it, however, South Korea won't necessarily have to reach the podium on home ice in 2018 to call its Olympic hockey debut a success.Dalton, born in Canada, obtained his South Korean passport last month after getting fast-tracked to the citizenship. He's among a handful of North American-natives who have been naturalized as South Koreans, and they will represent their adopted count

Tickets to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony will cost 200,000 won ($174) to 1.5 million won.　The organizing committee for the games announced Monday ticket prices for the opening and closing ceremonies and individual games. Closing ceremony tickets are priced from 220,000 won to 950,000 won. The opening and closing ceremonies are the third and fifth, respectively, most anticipated events among Koreans, according to a survey of 1,741 Koreans on popularity of the upcoming

Former Olympic swimming gold medalist Park Tae-hwan was ruled out of this year's Rio Summer Games Wednesday following a decision by the nation's top sports body.The Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) said it would not amend its rule preventing athletes who've served doping suspensions from representing the country for three years, starting on the day the suspension ends.Park recently served an 18-month suspension after testing positive for testosterone, and his ban ended on March 2.The KOC institute

South Korean Olympic football team head coach Shin Tae-yong said Thursday it is pointless to talk about the country having a second seed at the group draw.Japanese media have reported that South Korea are placed in the second-seeded pot with Nigeria, Honduras and Iraq for the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. According to reports, Japan have taken the top seeds along with host Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. Sweden, Fiji, Portugal and South Africa are in the third-seeded pot, while Colombia,

South Korea's preparations for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang are moving in the right direction, but a "lot of work" remains to be done, an official inspector said Wednesday.The International Olympic Committee in 2011 picked South Korea's northeastern ski resort of Pyeongchang to host the winter games, favouring it over Munich and the French Alpine town of Annecy. But initial preparations were hit by financial problems and construction delays, which at one point saw the IOC float the possi

South Korea missed out on Olympic women's football after a 1-0 loss to China in the Asian qualifying tournament on Monday.At Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan, Wang Shanshan headed in the match's lone goal in the 42nd, as South Korea remained winless with two draws and two losses.Though there's one match remaining in the qualification, South Korea will not get one of two Asian spots for the women's football tournament at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics in August. South Korea have never competed i

Co-presidents were named for the integrated national sports body on Monday, another important step toward finalizing their merger later this month.Kim Jung-haeng, president of the Korean Olympic Committee, and Kang Young-joong, head of the Korea Council of Sport for All, were appointed as co-heads of the tentatively named Korean Sport & Olympic Committee. The decision was reached during the KSOC founders' meeting in Seoul.The KOC, which oversees the country's sports in general and elite athletes

His lengthy doping suspension is now behind him, but South Korean Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan still faces a murky future, with no assurance that he will be eligible for this year's Summer Games.The 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the 400m freestyle was slapped with an 18-month ban last March by FINA, the international swimming governing body. Park tested positive for testosterone, and the suspension began retroactively on Sept. 3, 2014, when FINA collected his samples.The ban ended Wed

The South Korean sports ministry plans to meet the International Olympic Committee next week with two leaders of local sports governing bodies at odds over their merger, a government official said Friday.An official at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports told Yonhap News Agency that the ministry is preparing to send its vice minister Kim Chong, along with the Korean Olympic Committee head Kim Jung-haeng and the Korea Council of Sport for All chief Kang Young-joong, to Lausanne, Switzerla

South Korea will be without its two Olympic champions when it hosts speed skating's premier sprint competition this weekend.The International Skating Union (ISU) World Sprint Speed Skating Championships will be held Saturday and Sunday at Taereung International Skating Rink inside the National Training Center in Seoul.Skaters will each enter two 500 m races and two 1,000 m races across those two days. Their times will be converted to points using the samalog system, in which the points for the 5

The draws for the football tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games will be held in April, the sport's national governing body said Tuesday.The Korea Football Association (KFA) said that FIFA, the sport's top governing body, decided to have the Olympic football draws at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, the host city of the 31st Olympic Games, at 10:30 p.m. on April 14 (Korean time).South Korea have qualified for the men's event, and the women's team will have their qualifying tournament l

At No. 7 in the women's singles badminton rankings with a slew of international victories, Sung Ji-hyun admits she remains a work in progress.   Sung, however, has been improving at a rate that has the South Korean national team camp buzzing with talks of an Olympic medal for the 24-year-old in Rio de Janeiro in August.   She's fresh off a Badminton World Federation (BWF) Grand Prix victory in India last week. During an open training session in Seoul Thursday, Sung said she was pleased to get th

With about two years to go until the first Winter Olympics in South Korea, the top local organizer said Wednesday the preparation has moved into a new phase.Cho Yang-ho, president of the organizing committee for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games, said the eastern resort town and its sub-hosts are well on their way to a successful Olympics."Construction for all new competition and non-competition venues is on track and will be completed in time," Cho said at a press conference in Seoul. The Pyeon

South Korea will host some of the world's top alpine skiers at a Winter Olympic test event during the long Lunar New Year weekend, officials said Wednesday.The local organizers of the 2016 International Ski Federation Alpine Skiing World Cup, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at Jeongseon Alpine Centre in Jeongseon, Gangwon Province, will host 58 athletes and 137 officials from 16 nations.The Jeongseon World Cup will hold the men's downhill and Super-G races. It will be the first international c

Host South Korea will have one of its own after all at an upcoming Olympic skiing test event.The Korea Ski Association said Friday that Kim Hyeon-tae will be the lone South Korean at the Feb. 6-7 International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing World Cup at Jeongseon Alpine Centre in Jeongseon, Gangwon Province. The venue will host alpine skiing during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and the FIS World Cup is its first official competition since its opening last week.Only the downhill and S