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[PyeongChang 2018] PyeongChang ‘culture’ Paralympics extends beyond sport

Mar 15, 2018

Just like the well-received PyeongChang Olympics, South Korea has vowed to make the ongoing PyeongChang Paralympics a cultural event as much as it is a sporting event. True to the host nation’s pled...
[PyeongChang 2018] N. Korea's delegation to Paralympics returns home

Mar 15, 2018

SEOUL/PAJU -- North Korean athletes and officials at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics returned home Thursday after participating in a winter Paralympic Games for the first time. The North's 20-mem...
[PyeongChang 2018] S. Korea trounced 7-0 by Canada in ice hockey semifinals at PyeongChang Paralympics

Mar 15, 2018

GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- South Korea failed to reach the men's ice sledge hockey finals at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics after suffering a 7-0 loss to Canada on Thursday. The men's team w...
[PyeongChang 2018] S. Korea reaches wheelchair curling semifinals at PyeongChang Paralympics

Mar 15, 2018

GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- South Korea has reached the semifinals of the wheelchair curling competition at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics on Thursday. The team of Seo Soon-seok, Bang Min-ja,...
[PyeongChang 2018] N. Korean Paralympic delegation leaves PyeongChang to return home

Mar 15, 2018

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- The North Korean delegation to the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics left the athletes' village here Thursday to return home. The 24-member delegation, led by Kim Mun-c...
[PyeongChang 2018] Speed skater hospitalized for psychological treatment after PyeongChang Olympics

Mar 14, 2018

South Korean speed skater Kim Bo-reum, who won silver in the women‘s mass start at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, has been hospitalized for psychological treatment, along with her mother, the athle...
[PyeongChang 2018] Record number of Winter Paralympic tickets sold

Mar 14, 2018

More than 320,000 tickets have been sold four days into the 10-day Paralympics in PyeongChang, overtaking the total sales of the 2014 Sochi Paralympics, which sold around 316,000 tickets in total. L...
[PyeongChang 2018] N. Korean Paralympians, officials to leave PyeongChang before closing ceremony

Mar 14, 2018

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- North Korean athletes and officials staying in South Korea for the Winter Paralympics will leave before the weekend's closing ceremony, officials said Wednesday, with...
[PyeongChang 2018] N. Koreans finish their last PyeongChang Paralympics event

Mar 14, 2018

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- North Korean athletes finished their last event at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics in South Korea on Wednesday before they return home. Ma Yu-chol and Kim Jong-hy...
[PyeongChang 2018] Suspicions about N. Korean Paralympic athletes ‘raised by North Koreans’

Mar 13, 2018

North Koreans expressed doubts about their country’s participants in the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics, according to Radio Free Asia, an international radio broadcasting station. A source from Nort...
[PyeongChang 2018] PyeongChang 2018 sets Winter Paralympics ticket sales record

Mar 13, 2018

PYEONGCHANG -- Ticket sales for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games have surpassed more than 320,000, a record for the most tickets sold at a Winter Paralympics, the organizers of the multisport ...
[PyeongChang 2018] Korean ice sledge hockey team falls 8-0 to US at PyeongChang Paralympics

Mar 13, 2018

GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- South Korea's ice sledge hockey team suffered a 8-0 loss to the United States at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games on Tuesday. The men's national team was thrash...
[PyeongChang 2018] Korean curler surprised to learn she would be cauldron lighter for Paralympics

Mar 13, 2018

EUISEONG, North Gyeongsang Province -- When Kim Eun-jung, the skip for the women's curling team that won silver at the 2018 Winter Olympics, was told she would be a cauldron lighter for the PyeongCha...
[Photo News] Uiseong residents welcome ‘Garlic Girls’

Mar 12, 2018

The “Garlic Girls” returned Monday to their hometown of Uiseong, North Gyeongsang Province, where they received a warm welcome. The members of the South Korean women’s curling team, which won silver...
[PyeongChang 2018] Korean wheelchair curlers at Paralympics buoyed by elementary students

Mar 12, 2018

GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- South Korea's wheelchair curlers at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics said Monday they were buoyed by local elementary students' support in their victory against Canad...