Woo Sang-hyeok, the South Korean high jumper known as “Smile Jumper,” shed a few tears Saturday night at the main stadium of the Paris Olympics, where his medal hopes crashed and burned.
Those tears weren’t so much for his own performance, as they w…
Woo Sang-hyeok, the South Korean high jumper known as “Smile Jumper,” shed a few tears Saturday night at the main stadium of the Paris Olympics, where his medal hopes crashed and burned.
Those tears weren’t so much for his own performance, as they w…
South Korea capped its better-than-expected run at the Paris Olympics with two more medals on the final day of the competition Sunday.
Seong Seung-min grabbed bronze in the women’s modern pentathlon and became the first Asian to reach the podium sin…
Park Hye-jeong captured silver in the heaviest weight class in women’s weightlifting Sunday for South Korea’s final medal of the Paris Olympics.
Park finished with the total of 299 kilograms, with 131kg in the snatch and 168kg in the clean and jerk …
Seong Seung-min claimed bronze in the women’s modern pentathlon at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, becoming the first South Korean woman to grab an Olympic medal in her sport.
Seong, the 2024 world champion, finished behind Michelle Gulyas of Hungary …
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday named Shim Woo-jung, the vice justice minister, to be the new prosecutor general, his office said.
Shim, 53, has been tapped to be the new prosecution chief who will replace Prosecutor General Lee One-seok, accordin…
