Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

Ulsan keep distance from runners-up after 3-3 draw with Daejeon

K League leaders Ulsan Hyundai ended their six-game winning streak after a 3-3 thriller with Daejeon Hana Citizen on Sunday, while second-place FC Seoul secured three points with a victory over Gangwon FC on the same day.

2023-05-29

Busan and Daejeon to host June friendlies

The Korean national team will play their friendly against Peru in Busan on June 16 and against El Salvador in Daejeon on June 20, the Korea Football Association (KFA) announced Tuesday.

2023-05-16

Hana Financial Group vows to cut Daejeon Hana Citizen's carbon footprint

Hana Financial Group committed Sunday to achieving net zero carbon emissions for Daejeon Hana Citizen, a professional football team sponsored by the group, in a bid to join a global effort to cut carbon footprints.

2023-05-01

Pohang reclaim second place as K League midweek action begins

Ulsan Hyundai held onto the top spot with their seventh win of the season on Tuesday, while the Pohang Steelers reclaimed second from FC Seoul in the first midweek action of the 2023 K League season.

2023-04-27

War on drunk driving

The police are conducting special DUI stops through May, especially near school zones. The death of nine-year-old girl Bae Seung-ah after she was hit by a drunk driver in a school zone on April 8 prompted nationwide outrage.

2023-04-20

Daejeon pull off another upset to hand Ulsan first loss of the season

K League leaders Ulsan Hyundai missed out on an opportunity to tie a K League season opening record with a seven-game winning streak on Sunday, instead losing 2-1 to newly-promoted upstarts Daejeon Hana Citizen.

2023-04-17

Family says goodbye to daughter killed by drunk driver

The 9 year-old Bae Seung-ah's mother asked the pallbearers to be gentle, telling them that her daughter might get nauseous. Seung-ah was killed by a drunk driver on Saturday. The driver drank 14 bottles of soju and beer with eight other people.

2023-04-11

Body of Whang Ki-whan, early independence activist, returns home

The body of Whang Ki-whan, an activist and diplomat who plead the case for Korean independence at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 during Japanese colonial rule, arrived in Korea for re-burial on Monday, almost a 100 years after his death.

2023-04-10

Warrant sought for 1 more in crypto kidnap-killing case

Police on Sunday sought an arrest warrant for the wife of the suspected mastermind behind the Gangnam kidnap-murder case. The wife and the suspected mastermind are accused of paying about 70 million won ($53,000) to the suspects.

2023-04-09

Wildfires continue to burn in Korea a day after historic Seoul blaze

Dozens of wildfires burned in Korea Sunday, and many continued Monday as the air remained dry and the winds strong. A fire that broke out on Mount Inwang in Jongno District, central Seoul, around noon Sunday was completely put out after 25 hours

2023-04-03