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Actor Jung Woo-sung admits to being father of model Moon Ga-bi’s child
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Industry experts predicts tough choices as NewJeans' ultimatum nears
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Final push to forge UN treaty on plastic pollution set to begin in Busan
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Nvidia CEO signals Samsung’s imminent shipment of AI chips
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Opposition chief acquitted of instigating perjury
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Korea to hold own memorial for forced labor victims, boycotting Japan’s
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[Exclusive] Hyundai Mobis eyes closer ties with BYD
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Seoul city opens emergency care centers
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[Herald Review] 'Gangnam B-Side' combines social realism with masterful suspense, performance
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Why S. Korean refiners are reluctant to import US oil despite Trump’s energy push
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Police raids taekwondo body over alleged match-fixing
Police on Friday raided the office of the nation's taekwondo governing body as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations that it had fixed matches to benefit selected players.The Korea Taekwondo Association is under suspicion of rigging the results by coercing referees to make favorable decisions for the selected players during national team tryouts so that they can take the spot in the team.A team of investigators from the National Police Agency obtained computer hard drives and confide
More SportsMarch 7, 2014
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Bundesliga's Bayer Leverkusen to visit Seoul in summer
Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen will visit Seoul this summer to play a South Korean opponent, the German team announced Friday.On its website, Bayer Leverkusen, which has two South Korean players, Son Heung-min and Ryu Seung-woo, said it will face FC Seoul of the K League Classic on July 30."(Son) can expect a hero's welcome when die Werkself travel to the South Korean capital Seoul as part of the club's preseason preparations this summer," Bayer Leverkusen said, referring to itself by the Germ
SoccerMarch 7, 2014
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Kim Yu-na confirmed dating ice hockey player
All That Sports, the agency for South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na, has confirmed on Thursday that the skating star is dating ice hockey player Kim Won-joong.The Olympic champion’s agency admitted the two are an item in response to earlier news reports about the relationship. “Regarding Kim Yu-na’s dating news reports, most of them are true. She is currently dating Kim Won-joong,” the agency said. Earlier in the day, entertainment news website Dispatch released several photos showing the two t
More SportsMarch 6, 2014
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Ronaldo breaks scoring record
LEIRIA, Portugal (AP) ― Cristiano Ronaldo became Portugal’s all-time leading scorer Wednesday, netting twice as Portugal thrashed Cameroon 5-1 in a warm-up match between teams preparing for the World Cup.Ronaldo clinched his place in the record book with goals in the 21st and 83rd minutes, taking his international tally to 49. The 2013 FIFA world player of the year overtook Pauleta, who retired in 2006 after scoring 47 goals in 88 games. Ronaldo was making his 110th appearance.“I knew it would c
SoccerMarch 6, 2014
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Tiger Woods will play at Doral after back treatments
MIAMI (AFP) ― World No. 1 Tiger Woods will defend his World Golf Championships event at Doral after all as treatment this week helped ease back pain that forced him to quit a USPGA event last Sunday.Woods will tee off on Thursday alongside Sweden’s Henrik Stenson and reigning Masters champion Adam Scott of Australia, who could dethrone Woods from atop the rankings with a victory at the $9 million Cadillac Championship.“I feel better. I feel good,” Woods said Wednesday.“It has been a long couple
GolfMarch 6, 2014
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Peng ousts former champ Zvonareva at Indian Wells
INDIAN WELLS (AFP) ― China’s Peng Shuai booked her second-round berth at the Indian Wells ATP Masters and WTA tournament on Wednesday with a three-set win over former champion Vera Zvonareva.Zvonareva, a former world No. 2 who was sidelined for all of 2013 with illness and a right shoulder injury, had been seeking just her second match win since the 2012 Olympics, but was unable to make her wild card go far as she fell 4-6, 6-0, 7-5.Peng, who last month attained the world No. 1 doubles ranking,
More SportsMarch 6, 2014
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Few passing grades for Korea in football win over Greece
South Korea may have defeated Greece 2-0 in their pre-World Cup match on Wednesday in Athens, but it was a misleading result that masked some of the side’s problems.And if this game was indeed the final test for players hoping to make the World Cup team ― as head coach Hong Myung-bo had often said ― then only a few players earned passing grades. Others failed spectacularly.Forward Park Chu-young, who opened the scoring in the 17th, deserves an A, though he only played the opening half.In his fir
SoccerMarch 6, 2014
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Kim Yu-na confirmed dating ice hockey player
All That Sports, the agency for South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na, has confirmed on Thursday that the skating star is dating ice hockey player Kim Won-joong. The Olympic champion’s agency admitted the two are an item in response to earlier news reports about the relationship. “Regarding Kim Yu-na’s dating news reports, most of them are true. She is currently dating Kim Won-joong,” the agency said. Earlier in the day, entertainment news website Dispatch released several photos showing the tw
Olympic GamesMarch 6, 2014
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Kim Yu-na spotted dating ice hockey player
South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na was sighted with ice hockey player Kim Won-joong in several photos taken by a local media outlet, spawning speculation that the two are an item. The photos, revealed by entertainment news website Dispatch, showed the pair taking a walk at night with Kim’s arm wrapped around his waist. The two sports stars reportedly first met in 2012 at the Taeneung training center, where Korean national athletes train, and went on dates in secret about twice a month outsid
Olympic GamesMarch 6, 2014
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Korea beats Greece in pre-World Cup friendly
Opportunistic on offense and fortunate on defense, South Korea defeated Greece 2-0 in their pre-World Cup friendly match on Wednesday. South Korea solved the usually stingy Greek defense once in each half, as forward Park Chu-young scored his first international goal in more than two years, and winger Son Heung-min added insurance later at Karaiskakis Stadium. The 61st-ranked South Korea improved to three wins and a draw all-time against the No. 12 Greece. Since head coach Hong Myung-bo took
SoccerMarch 6, 2014
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[Photo News] Luncheon for Olympians
More SportsMarch 5, 2014
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Madrid, Robben headline soccer poll
LONDON (AP) ― Real Madrid’s 6-1 thrashing of Schalke followed by its 2-2 draw with La Liga title rival Atletico Madrid sent it to the top of this week’s Associated Press global soccer poll.Madrid edged Bayern Munich by three points to take team of the week honors for the second time this season.It was even closer in the player poll, where Munich’s Arjen Robben beat Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo by two votes.Robben scored a hat trick in Bayern’s 5-1 Bundesliga victory, also against Schalke, and runn
SoccerMarch 5, 2014
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Samsung Lions eye fourth consecutive title: manager
The Samsung Lions have won the past three championships in the top domestic baseball league, and the goal this year is to extend the impressive streak, the team’s manager said Wednesday.After the Lions wrapped up their 50-day spring training in Guam and then in Okinawa this week, Ryu Joong-il made it clear that he won’t settle for anything less than another title.“Our objective this year is of course to win our fourth consecutive championship,” Ryu was quoted as saying in the Lions’ press releas
BaseballMarch 5, 2014
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Doral is a familiar place that no one recognizes
DORAL, Florida (AP) ― Steve Stricker usually doesn’t show up at a tournament on Sunday. He made an exception for the Cadillac Championship, and it made perfect sense.And not just because snow is in the forecast at home in Wisconsin.This is the 20-year anniversary of the first time Stricker played the Blue Monster at Doral.Now it seems as if he’s on a blind date.“You know you’re at Doral, but it doesn’t feel anything like it,” Stricker said Tuesday. “A few holes, they haven’t changed. But then yo
SoccerMarch 5, 2014
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Kim Yu-na puts ‘absurd’ Olympic result behind her
After settling for silver in a controversial decision at the recent Winter Olympics, figure skater Kim Yu-na reiterated on Tuesday she has fully put that “absurd” result behind her.Kim, the 2010 Olympic champ in ladies’ singles figure skating who took the silver at the Sochi Winter Games last month, met hundreds of her enthusiastic fans at a Seoul shopping mall. She shared with them her thoughts about what many experts and fans felt was a rigged judging decision that denied her a second straight
More SportsMarch 4, 2014
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Putting it on the line
ATHENS (Yonhap) ― As he wrapped up his first practice on Monday with the South Korean men’s national soccer team getting ready to face Greece, forward Park Chu-young said there will be no excuse for him to be out of form despite his lack of playing time of late.Park, of Watford in England’s second division, has been named to the squad for Wednesday’s friendly against Greece. The match will kick off at 7 p.m. in the Greek capital, or 2 a.m. on Thursday in South Korea. The 28-year-old is on the na
SoccerMarch 4, 2014
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Tiger begins road to Augusta with a limp
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida (AP) ― The last time Tiger Woods quit in the middle of a round because of an injury, he won his next tournament. And then he followed that with his highest score ever in the Masters, the ultimate measure of Woods these days.Now what?Making predictions about the world’s No. 1 player is like gauging the wind at Amen Corner. You’re bound to get it wrong for three reasons:― Only an athlete knows how badly he is hurt.― Golf is too unpredictable under the best of times.― He
GolfMarch 4, 2014
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Brazil down to 100 days to get all ready
SAO PAULO (AP) ― Brazil is running out of time.World Cup organizers will mark 100 days to go on Tuesday with work still to be done on stadiums and infrastructure in the 12 host cities.As national teams enter their final phase of preparations ― Wednesday in the only date this year before mid-May that all players are available to national teams for exhibitions ― the Brazilian government is trying to ensure the country will be prepared for the 32-nation tournament, which opens June 12. Brazil had n
SoccerMarch 4, 2014
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Busan to build baseball Hall of Fame
Busan inked an agreement with the national governing body of professional baseball Tuesday to build the sport’s first official Hall of Fame in the country.Busan, the country’s second-largest city about 450 kilometers southeast of Seoul, reached a deal with the Korea Baseball Organization to build the Hall of Fame in its county of Kijang by 2016.Building the commemorative hall is part of the KBO’s project to celebrate more than 100 years of baseball and 30-plus years of professional baseball in t
BaseballMarch 4, 2014
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Figure skater Kim Yu-na says 'absurd' Olympic result fully behind her
After settling for silver in a controversial decision at the recent Winter Olympics, figure skater Kim Yu-na reiterated on Tuesday she has fully put that "absurd" result behind her. Kim, the 2010 Olympic champ in ladies' singles figure skating who took the silver at the Sochi Winter Games last month, met hundreds of her enthusiastic fans at a Seoul shopping mall. She shared with them her thoughts about what many experts and fans felt was a rigged judging decision that denied her a second
Olympic GamesMarch 4, 2014
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