Category Archives: Korean Sports

The Olympic Rock Throwing Competition Winner: China

photo: Yonhap News Agency
The Olympic torch has come and gone through South Korea but not without surprises. The trip through Japan was marked with some outcry from groups that are critical of China’s policies in Tibet but Seoul was an entirely different matter since the most criticism against China’s human rights violations stems from [...]

Quiet Diplomacy or Just Fear?

It seems that the Olympic Torch will be coming to South Korea on or around April 26 but the odd thing is that the only mention of this is by the JoongAng Ilbo article on “Athletes selected to carry the torch in North Korea“. Naturally the North Koreans will cheer for the torch (which [...]

Happy Lunar New Year: Korea 4-0 Turkmenistan

Okay, so it was against a national team ranked 80+ places below them, but Korea put on a good show last night, especially in the second half, to get their 2010 South Africa World Cup qualifying campaign off to a good start.
Turkmenistan were never going to trouble Korea and it showed from the start as the [...]

That must have drawn a technical

What happens when things get a little too physical at a Korean women’s basketball game?  If you said that someone gets, um… slapped, you are correct.

Korean “Cool Running”

The Korean National Bobsleigh Team has won the bronze medal during the 2008 American Cup competition held at Salt Lake City.   But like the Jamaican team at the 88 Winter Olympics, the Korean team had had its share of hardships.  First it had only three members including the coach, but because of “budgetary problems” only [...]

DOOM-style Politics

Korean Lawmakers have been playing too much DOOM apparently. Dibs on the chainsaw (AP).
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For the Footie Nuts

In the Guardian’s sports blog, Simon Burnton rips on the Korean national team. He writes, “It is a little over five years since an ecstatic nation cheered their team to the semi-finals of the World Cup at home, but nothing about Korean football is as good now as it was then. That golden generation (yes, [...]

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