Athletes — national, professional, active, retired — who make up the bulk of this season's cast, have dominated a lot of the competition.
Hwang Sun-hong, the manager of the U-23 national football team, is set on an ambitious goal: to qualify for the Olympics for the 10th consecutive time. Korea would be the first-ever country to do so in Games history.
It's been a year for the history books, with the LG Twins back at the top of the KBO while the national team stumbled at the WBC. Korea's Son Heung-min and Lee Kang-in continued to shine in Europe. And the Asian Games made its return, one year late.
Korea beat age-old rivals Japan 2-1 in the final of the men’s football tournament at the Hangzhou Asian Games, becoming the first-ever country to win three consecutive Asiad gold medals in the event.
An, 21, was the first Korean to win the Asian Games tournament in 29 years, and the first Korean to even play in a final at the World Championships in 30 years.
Hundreds of Korean athletes who will compete at the Paris Olympics next year wrapped up a three-day military “boot camp” with the Korean Marine Corps in Pohang, North Gyeongsang on Wednesday.
Former Olympic football team manager Kim Hak-bum will helm K League 1 side Jeju United next season, the club announced Tuesday.
The fourth-ever Asian Para Games is set to officially begin in Hangzhou, China on Sunday with an opening ceremony to mark the start of the week-long 22-sport event.
The absence of Jack Ma — the excellent private entrepreneur who made Hangzhou into China’s “digital center” — is another point to watch to understand China today.
The U-24 Korean national team’s 2-1 victory over Japan in the final at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Saturday gave the Korean players not only a shiny gold medal, but also a very shiny military exemption.
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