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Wed, July 28, 2021 | 05:49

S. Korea wins silver in women's team epee fencing

South Korea captured silver in the women's team epee fencing at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, the country's first epee team medal in nine years. Choi In-jeong, Kang Young-mi, Song Sera and Lee Hye-in lost to Estonia 36-32 at Makuhari Messe Hall B in Chiba, east of Tokyo.

2021-07-27 21:34

In Kyo-don wins bronze in men's taekwondo

In Kyo-don won the bronze medal in men's taekwondo on Tuesday, for only the second medal in its traditional martial art for South Korea at the Tokyo Olympics. In defeated Ivan Konrad Trajkovic of Slovenia 5-4 in the bronze medal match of the men's +80kg event at Makuhari Messe Hall A in Chiba, east of Tokyo.

2021-07-27 21:33

Search halted for missing mountaineer in Himalayas

Rescuers halted a search for a missing South Korean mountaineer in the Himalayas at the request of his family, officials said Monday. Kim Hong-bin, 56, went missing on July 18 after scaling the 8,047-meter-high Broad Peak located in the Karakoram Range on the Pakistani-Chinese border.

2021-07-26 20:47

Pandemic changes Olympic traditions

As much as the coronavirus pandemic has brought about major changes to our daily routines, it has also brought changes to the world's biggest quadrennial sporting event. The COVID-19-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which kicked off Friday, will be held unprecedentedly without spectators for the majority of the Olympic events, due to the city's coronavirus state of emergency whic...

Kang Seung-woo | 2021-07-22 08:34

Korea downsizes delegation for Olympic opening ceremony

Korea's Olympic delegation has decided to send less than a quarter of its athletes to the opening ceremony of the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics to ensure their safety amid a resurgence in COVID-19 infections in Tokyo.

Lee Min-hyung | 2021-07-22 08:34

Fingerless Korean goes missing after achieving the feat of climbing all 14 Himalayan peaks

A fingerless South Korean mountaineer went missing after achieving the record-breaking feat of climbing all of the world's 14 highest peaks in the Himalayas, officials here said Monday.

2021-07-20 08:39

Olympics opening ceremony composer quits over past bullying

A composer for the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony said Monday he would step down following an outcry over old interviews in which he described bullying disabled schoolmates.The experimental musician Keigo Oyamada, known as Cornelius, is at the center of the latest scandal to hit the virus-postponed Games, just four days before they kick off.

2021-07-19 21:05

Korean Olympic chief assures of IOC's written pledge in banner row with Japan

Korean Olympic chief Lee Kee-heung insisted on Monday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has promised in writing that it would ban the display of a Japanese imperialist flag during the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, a pledge made when South Korea was asked to remove banners the IOC believed to be political.Upon arriving in Japan on Monday, Lee, president of the Korean Sport ...

2021-07-19 20:20

Korea heads to Tokyo

Members of the main Korean delegation for the Tokyo Olympics pose at Incheon International Airport, Monday, before leaving for Japan. Korea sent a delegation of 354 officials and athletes who will compete in 29 events at the Summer Games, scheduled to begin Friday. Team Korea is looking for at least seven gold medals that it believes will ensure a top-10 finish for the fifth ...

Kang Seung-woo | 2021-07-19 15:43

Fingerless Korean becomes world's 1st disabled person to climb all 14 Himalayan peaks

A fingerless South Korean mountaineer has climbed all of the world's 14 highest mountains in the Himalayas, a local alpine club said Monday, becoming the world's first person with a disability to accomplish such a feat.

2021-07-19 11:54

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