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When the 32 qualifying teams competing in the 2018 FIFA World Cup take to the pitch in Russia on June 14, they will showcase the best of the world’s soccer talent — highlighted by the diversity of the players that compose those teams. More than ever, athletes are quantified by metrics — height, weight, 40-yard-dash […]
SEOUL — A female executive of South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor has resigned after being accused of pressuring female subordinates to pour drinks for, and dance with, senior male members of staff, the Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday. The global #MeToo movement has accelerated in South Korea since January, spawning accusations of sexual misconduct […]
When the Canadian men’s Olympic hockey team clashes with South Korea on Feb. 18 in Pyeongchang, you will notice some very un-Korean names on the host side. Names like Matt Dalton, Alex Plante, Eric Regan, Bryan Young, Brock Radunske, Michael Swift and Mike Testwuide. The latter is an American from Vail, Colo., and was briefly […]
Kim Jong-hyun, a key member of one of South Korea’s biggest boy bands, SHINee, has died. He was 27. The singer, who performed under the name Jonghyun, was found unconscious in a rented Seoul apartment on Monday evening. He received emergency CPR treatment upon his arrival at a hospital but was later pronounced dead. Investigators […]
Published time: 15 Nov, 2017 06:01 Edited time: 15 Nov, 2017 06:06 A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck off South Korea’s southeastern coast, about 6km (4 miles) north of the southeastern port city of Pohang, Yonhap news agency reported. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Let’s block ads! (Why?) RT – Daily news
FILE – In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017 file photo, a U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, is installed at a golf course in Seongju, South Korea. Clashes between residents and police over the deployment of an advanced U.S. anti-missile system highlight a divisive issue ahead of South Korea’s […]
South Koreans have just elected a new president who has criticized the deployment of THAAD on his country’s soil, expressed a need to reconcile with Pyongyang and challenged Seoul to tell America, “no.” Advertisement Moon Jae-in, a former human rights lawyer and activist, is replacing disgraced ex-president Park Geun-hye who is sitting in prison awaiting […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA For more than a decade the Korean capital has been striving to become a greener, more attractive and user-friendly metropolis. Following on from successful projects such as Cheonggyecheon, where an ageing elevated highway was torn down and replaced with a central park and waterway, the city will later this year unveil the […]
Korea: the land of ubiquitous plastic surgery that makes everyone seem forever 21. And yet … an ancient scent still lingers. In business, despite billions of taxpayer dollars showered on startups that numbered 31,189 in 2015, a handful of senile conglomerates — chaebols — like 78-year-old Samsung still dominate the South Korean economy. Into this […]
Jim Paek knows how difficult it is to win a Stanley Cup. But preparing a nation in its hockey infancy for the Winter Olympics could present an even tougher challenge. Paek, a former defenceman who turns 50 on Apr. 7, helped the Pittsburgh Penguins win back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1991 and ’92. As a minor […]
