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[PyeongChang 2018] S. Korea wins second straight silver in men’s team pursuit

South Korea grasped the silver medal in the men’s speed skating team pursuit event on Wednesday, marking the country’s third silver medal and ninth medal in total in this year’s Winter Games. Lee Se...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] S. Korea’s female pursuit team finishes last amid teamwork fiasco

South Korea’s female speedskating team on Wednesday lost its team pursuit playoff race against Poland finishing in eighth place. The result comes in the wake of a disputed race which triggered discu...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] Alpine snowboarding event rescheduled due to unfavorable weather forecast

Local organizers of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Wednesday that the men's and women's alpine snowboarding parallel giant slalom events have been rescheduled due to unfavorable weather forecas...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] S. Korean, N. Korean hockey players bond over Oreo McFlurries at breakfast

When asked on Wednesday to recount her favorite memory of having been with North Korean teammates at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, South Korean forward Randi Heesoo Griffin didn't have to think fo...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] EXO thrilled by PyeongChang closer, hopes to meet skeleton sensation Yun

Members of K-pop act EXO said Wednesday they were thrilled to perform in front of what may be their biggest audience to date -- at the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics this weekend...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] Veteran S. Korean cross-country skier bids adieu to Winter Games

South Korean veteran cross-country skier Lee Chae-won bid farewell to the Winter Olympic Games as she competed in her last event, in her hometown on Wednesday. Lee, the oldest South Korean athlete a...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[Newsmaker] Witch hunt or mob justice? Inside South Korea’s world of ‘inseong’ trials of athletes

A glimpse into South Korea’s strange obsession with ‘character trials’ of sports stars

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] Women curlers glide smoothly into final four

The South Korean women’s curling team topped the round robin preliminaries with an 11-2 win over the Olympic Athletes from Russia at the PyeongChang Winter Games on Wednesday morning. The home team,...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang2018] Korea's male curling team beats Japan in last round-robin match

GANGNEUNG -- Korea's male curling team on Wednesday captured its fourth victory, against Japan, in its last round-robin match at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Posting four wins and five losses at...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] Chinese fans slam Koreans over speedskating penalty

Some of the infuriated Chinese fans have launched a verbal warfare against Korean counterparts on short track speedskater Choi Min-jeong’s Instagram account. The online confrontation came after the ...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] ‘Yeong-mi-yah!’ and other hallmarks of curling sweeping Korea

From vacuum-broomstick parodies to memes of ‘sternface Kim Eun-jung,’ Koreans can’t get enough of women’s curling team on track for historic Olympic medal

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[Photo News] ‘Mama, can you hear me?’

Korean figure skater Choi Da-bin participated in ladies single skating short program on Wednesday at Gangneung Ice Arena and earned a total score of 67.77, a season’s best, securing a ticket to Frida...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] ‘Iron Man’ Yun Sung-bin aims another gold in World Championships

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- For Yun Sung-bin, his gold medal in the skeleton at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics is not the end of the story. The 23-year-old South Korean slider said he can...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] Olympic torch relay for Paralympics to kick off

The torch for the 2018 Paralympics will be ignited simultaneously in five areas of Korea on March 2 and carried to PyeongChang in a relay run ending on the opening day of the events on March 9, where...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games
[PyeongChang 2018] Korea's figure skater Choi Da-bin places 8th in short program

Korea's teenage figure skating star Choi Da-bin on Wednesday performed a flawless short program to pull off a personal high and rank eighth at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics ladies' singles figure s...

Feb 21, 2018
Olympic Games

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