BEIJING -- After three days' worth of races, South Korea finally has its first gold medal in short track speed skating at Beijing 2022. On Friday, Choi Min-jeong will try to add to that total. Choi, the double gold medalist from PyeongChang 2018, will compete in the quarterfinals of the women's 1,000m at Capital Indoor Stadium, with the semifinals and the final also scheduled for later in the e...

HONOLULU -- North Korea's relationship with South Korea and other countries is at a critical moment that can move in either direction resulting in confrontation or reconciliation, South Korea's top nuclear envoy said Wednesday, stressing the importance of direct engagement with North Korea. Noh Kyu-duk also said he and his US and Japanese counterparts will discuss ways to persuade North Korea to...

The 2022 Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing, among the nation’s closest foreign capitals at just some 950 kilometers from Seoul, four years after South Korea hosted the PyeongChang Games in Gangwon Province. Sixty-four Korean athletes are competing on snow and ice with the modest goal of ranking 15th or 16th in the medal standing. Famous movie director Zhang Yimou used a lot of his genius a...

In May 1993, Estonia’s first post-Soviet leader Lennart Meri -- a wise man with bitter experience of life in the Soviet Union -- told the visiting US deputy secretary of state that Estonia urgently needed to join NATO. It was, he said, the only guarantee that Russia wouldn’t invade the Baltic state once a less Western-friendly and authoritarian Russian leader replaced then-President Boris Yeltsin...

PANGYO, South Korea , Feb. 9 , 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to purchasing a gift card online as a gift, even for the most tech savvies, all the cumbersome steps customers have to complete just to find the receiving end have to go through the same hassle would have shooed them away. But there is a South Korean startup specializing in a turnkey solution for an easier and more plea...

This year, students at 34 schools across the country will wear hanbok as their school uniforms -- the number of schools endorsing hanbok uniforms has increased from 19 schools in 2021 and 15 in 2020. Hanbok uniforms are being used at 12 public workplaces including the National Hangeul Museum, Busan National Gugak Center, the Miryang city government. The exhibition runs through Feb. 24 at Culture...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. , Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NSF International (NSF) announced today that President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kevan P. Lawlor has decided to retire in 2022 and Pedro Sancha will become the organization's next President and CEO. Kevan Lawlor Pedro Sancha "On behalf of the Board of Directors, the leadership team, and NSF's 3,000 team members, we would like to ...

A day after winning its first medal of Beijing 2022, South Korea finally collected its first gold medal in the Chinese capital Wednesday. Hwang Dae-heon captured the men's 1,500m short track speed skating title at Capital Indoor Stadium, for South Korea's first gold in Beijing and its first short track medal of any color here. Hwang narrowly beat Steven Dubios of Canada, 2:09.219 to 2:09.254. ...

Hours after being disqualified from the men's 1,000m short track speed skating race at Beijing 2022 on Monday, South Korean Hwang Dae-heon posted a quote from Michael Jordan on his Instagram. It read: "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." In winning the 1,500m gold medal at Capital...

LONDON and HYDERABAD, India , Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new collaboration between data science and analytics leader, Excelra, and artificial intelligence pioneer X-Chem will accelerate preclinical drug discovery and aid scientists to find new drug candidates for currently hard-to-drug targets. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are reshaping discovery and optimization of drug...

Hwang Dae-heon couldn't have imagined a worse start to Beijing 2022, his second Winter Olympics. Last Saturday at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, the South Korean short track speed skater and his mixed relay team crashed out of the quarterfinals. Two days later, Hwang, along with a teammate Lee June-seo, were sent packing from the semifinals of the men's 1,000m on what many angry South Korean...

South Korean short track speed skater Hwang Dae-heon captured gold in the men's 1,500m at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday, bouncing back from a recent officiating controversy for the country's first gold in the Chinese capital. Hwang edged out Steven Dubois of Canada for his first Olympic gold at Capital Indoor Stadium. Semen Elistratov of the Russian Olympic Committee took bronze. Hwang came in 2:09...

South Korean short track speed skater Hwang Dae-heon captured gold in the men's 1,500m at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday, bouncing back from a recent officiating controversy for the country's first gold in the Chinese capital. Hwang edged out Steven Dubois of Canada for his first Olympic gold at Capital Indoor Stadium. Semen Elistratov of the Russian Olympic Committee took bronze. This is the second...