South Korean football club Incheon United said Thursday they've signed Argentine forward Enzo Damian Maidana.The K League Classic club said they've acquired Enzo from Bolivian side Petrolero de Yacuiba, without revealing the terms of the contract. Incheon said they hope the 29-year-old striker can boost their struggling offense.Incheon, currently 11th in the 12-team league, have scored only 20 goals in 23 matches so far, second worst behind cellar dwellers Gwangju FC. Following the departure of

Two of the bottom feeders in South Korean baseball are headed in opposite directions with the second half of the season in full swing.The Samsung Lions and the Hanwha Eagles have traded places in the Korea Baseball Organization standings. The Lions (38-53-4 in wins-losses-ties) moved to the sole possession of eighth place in the 10-team league for the first time last Sunday, while the Eagles (36-55-1), mired in a seven-game losing streak, have slipped to ninth place.Make no mistake, these two cl

South Korean fencing has wrapped up the annual world championships in Germany with its best finish ever.South Korea ranked third overall with a gold and two silver medals at the 2017 World Fencing Championships that concluded in Leipzig, Germany, on Wednesday (local time).The lone gold came from the men's sabre team competition, where South Korea defeated Hungary 45-22.It was South Korea's first world title, team or individual, since Won Yoo-young's gold in the men's individual sabre event at th

Two-time National Basketball Association MVP Stephen Curry arrived in South Korea on Wednesday for his Asian corporate tour.Curry landed in a private jet at Seoul Gimpo Business Aviation Center with his younger brother Seth Curry of the Dallas Mavericks. The high-scoring guard for the Golden State Warriors will stay in Seoul until Friday for his Asian tour with athletics apparel brand Under Armour. He visited three Chinese cities -- Beijing, Chengdu and Hangzhou -- before coming to South Korea f

A pair of Japanese footballing brothers will play for the same South Korean team for the first time in league history.Seoul E-Land in the second division K League Challenge said Wednesday they've acquired Tomoki Wada from Gwangju FC. Tomoki is the younger brother of Atsuki Wada, who is already playing with E-Land this season.E-Land said this is the first time in the K League history that two Japanese brothers are on the same club.Tomoki, 22, made his pro debut with Japanese club Vissel Kobe in 2

South Korean midfielder Song Jin-hyung has rejoined his original club, FC Seoul, after a season in the United Arab Emirates.The K League Classic outfit said Wednesday they've reacquired the 29-year-old midfielder 10 years after he left the nation's capital.Song spent the last season with Al-Sharjah in the UAE. FC Seoul, the 2016 league champions, said Song will spend the next two months rehabbing an injury he sustained while playing there.Song was part of a stacked FC Seoul youth system in 2003

A little over a week into the second half of the season, five clubs find themselves bunched up in the middle of the Korea Baseball Organization standings.At the top, the Kia Tigers and the NC Dinos have put some distance between themselves and the rest. The Tigers are in first at 60-32 and are leading the Dinos by five.The Doosan Bears, two-time defending champs, are another five back of the Dinos in third place at 48-40-1 (wins-losses-ties).Then it gets interesting. Players of the Lotte Giants

The national Olympic trials in figure skating will get under way this week, kicking off a series of three competitions that will determine who will represent the host nation at next year's PyeongChang Winter Games.The Korea Skating Union will host the "Figure Skating Korea Challenge" at Mokdong Ice Rink in Seoul starting Thursday, the first leg of the Olympic trials.The KSU will hold another competition in December, and then the national championships in January will be the final event for Olymp

South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan has finished eighth in the men's 200m freestyle at the ongoing world championships.With a time of 1:47.11, Park came in last among eight finalists at the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday (local time).Park squeezed into the final by finishing eighth in Monday's semifinals, despite setting his season-best with 1:46.28. In the heats held earlier Monday, Park ended up 14th among 16 qualifiers for the semis.Park

The CEO of the local dessert cafe franchise MangoSix has been found dead in his house in southern Seoul, police said Tuesday. (Yonhap)   The body of Kang Hoon, known for his sprawling coffee franchise business, was discovered by his subordinate in a bathroom in his house in Seocho-dong at 5:46 p.m. on Monday, investigators said. No suicide note was found.   His death came after he recently filed for corporate rehabilitation. (Yonhap)

The head of South Korean baseball's replay center received a 10-day suspension Friday for an incorrect ruling on a home run.The Korea Baseball Organization said Kim Ho-in, director of the KBO's Video Review Center, will be suspended from his duty for 10 days, starting Friday.The decision was reached after the replay center blew a call in a game between the Lotte Giants and the Samsung Lions on Thursday at Munsu Stadium in Ulsan, some 410 kilometers southeast of Seoul, and robbed Lotte outfielder

DAEGU -- A local appeals court on Friday upheld a suspended jail term on a former South Korean baseball pitcher convicted for a role in launching a gambling website.The Daegu District Court rejected an appeal by An Ji-man of his eight-month sentence, suspended for two years, handed down in February.An, a former pitcher for the Samsung Lions in the Korea Baseball Organization, was indicted in September last year over allegations he gave 165 million won ($147,000) to his friend in February 2016 to

South Korea's women's table tennis team has hired a former Chinese national team coach to prepare for the upcoming Asian Games, the sport's national governing body said Friday.The Korea Table Tennis Association said Zhong Jinyong will coach South Korean women players through the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. After the women's team struggled in recent international competitions including the Rio de Janeiro Olympics the KTTA said it was looking to hire a Chinese coach to raise the competitiveness o

An annual international mud festival will open in the South Korean city of Boryeong on Friday under the slogan of "Let's Go to Boryeong and Play with Mud!," an official on the event's organizing committee said Wednesday."The 2017 Boryeong Mud Festival will open for a 10-day run at Daecheon Beach in the namesake city, 190km south of Seoul, on Friday," the official said. (Yonhap)Launched in 1998, the festival has developed into a top international summer event with its mud flats attracting many to

South Korean football prospect Jang Gyeol-hee will make his professional debut with a Greek club in the upcoming season, officials here said Thursday.Jang signed a two-year contract with an option for an extra year with Asteras Tripoli FC in the top-flight Superleague Greece, a person working with Jang's camp said, adding that the 19-year-old will make his senior debut with the Greek club in the 2017-18 season.Jang joined the FC Barcelona youth team in 2011 along with South Korean compatriot Lee