Team South Korea arrived in Sapporo Japan, for the Asian Winter Games They’re staying in new accommodations, after a feud with a hotel that displays books with a revisionist bent. Oh Jung-hee explains further. The athletes of Team Korea who are slated to compete in the upcoming Asian Winter Games have arrived in Sapporo, Japan. […]
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The PyeongChang Paralympics flame has arrived in Gangwon-do Province. The relay is on with the global sporting event officially marking its start this Friday. Won Jung-hwan takes us closer to the action. The 2018 PyeongChang Paralympics Torch relay is on the road,… carrying the true meaning of ‘let everyone shine’. The relay aims to be […]
Good afternoon, I’m Kim Mok-yeon from the news center with the latest on the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. Let me give you a brief rundown of the highlights so far and what to look out for on Day Five. Team Korea won its second medal of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Tuesday night,… thanks to […]
Hi. I’m Lee Ji-won and I am here to bring you the latest on the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympics. It’s Day 4 of the Games, and Team Korea had a number of exciting moments today with one event still underway. Korea’s wheelchair curling team is now in its 7th preliminary match, this time against Switzerland. […]
Over in skiing,… the hunt for medals in the biathlon race began from early this morning… with the sitting events for the women’s 12-point-5 kilometer and men’s 15-kilometer biathlon, where Korea’s Lee Do-yeon, Sin Eui-hyun and Lee Jeong-min participated. Lee Do-yeon finished in 57-minutes-27-point-3 seconds, currently ranking 11th. Sin Eui-hyun came in at 49-minutes-20-point-7 seconds […]
The entire Russian team has been banned from taking part in the upcoming Rio Paralympic Games following the country’s doping scandal. The International Paralympic Committee’s announcement is in sharp contrast to the IOC’s earlier decision to allow the governing bodies of individual sports to decide whether Russians could compete in the Olympics. IPC President Phillip […]
72 days until the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics… but a hundred days to go until the PyeongChang Paralympics. As the countdown continues, and our Cha Sang-mi met with some of the Paralympic organizes and atheletes to see how they are getting ready. Across the slopes of Pyeongchang and Jeongseon and on the ice rink in […]
Setting everything right to have a world class sporting event in your back yard is no easy task. Curiosity peaks concerning the venues to welcome athletes and spectators. Is PyeongChang is ready to welcome the world? Cha Sang-mi updates us on the progress made with the Olympics facilities constructions. 2011,… South Korea’s PyeongChang was named […]
With just 88 days to go… the medals for the PyeongChang 2018 *Paralympic Winter Games medals have been officially unveiled. They’re 9-and-a-quarter centimeters across… and 9-point-4 milimeters thick… with the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, engraved on the edges, representing the consonants of the words “PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.” Korean industrial designer Lee Suk-woo encorporated traditional […]