Herald launches Asian Games News Service

Herald Corp. is providing real-time online news in English and Korean on the 17th Incheon Asian Games as an official news supplier of its organizing committee.The Asian Games News Service uploads flash quotes of athletes and officials and match previews and reviews in all medal sports of the games. It also covers news conferences and important news events.Herald Corp. is the first local media in Korea to serve as the official news service for the Asian Games.Articles produced by the Asian Games

Sept. 18, 2014

Two Palestinian footballers booked for sexual harassment

Two Palestine football players have been booked for investigation on suspicion of sexually harassing a female official at the Asian Games in South Korea, police said Wednesday.The footballers, whose names were withheld, were suspected of approaching and groping the South Korean woman on Monday in a laundry room in the athletes' village in Incheon, the host city of this year's Asiad, they said."We returned them to the athletes' village after interrogation," said a police officer, adding that the

Sept. 17, 2014

North Korea confirms its plan to send athletes by air

North Korea officially confirmed Tuesday its plan to transport its 273-member Asian Games delegation by air starting next week, South Korean organizers said.North Korea has already announced its plan to send a delegation of 273 athletes, officials and coaches to the upcoming Asian Games to be held in South Korea's western port city of Incheon from Sept. 19 till Oct. 4.On Tuesday, Son Kwang-ho, vice chairman of North Korea's Olympic Committee, sent a letter to Kwon Kyung-sang, secretary-general o

Sept. 2, 2014

Asiad organizers vow to put on memorable opening, closing ceremonies

Organizers of the 2014 Asian Games pledged Wednesday to stage impressive opening and closing ceremonies of the continent's largest sports event with programs that will show all 45 participating countries can become one.Film director Im Kwon-taek, who is in charge of the event's opening and closing ceremonies, said that "Dream of 4.5 billion people, One Asia" is the theme of his program to organize the ceremonies.The 2014 Asian Games will kick off on Sept. 19 for a 16-day run in Incheon, a metrop

Aug. 27, 2014

Asian Games athletes' village opens

Organizers of the upcoming Asian Games in Incheon opened their athletes’ village for the first time on Tuesday, allowing a sneak peek into newly constructed facilities that will accommodate some 14,500 athletes and officials during the competition.The Asian Games will run from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4. Incheon, a metropolitan city just west of the capital, is the third South Korean host of the Asian Games, after Seoul in 1986 and Busan in 2002.The athletes’ village is located in Guwol-dong in the cent

Aug. 26, 2014

Head of nat'l Olympic body to act as interim chief of PyeongChang

The president of the national Olympic body will serve as an interim head of South Korea's first Winter Games, officials said Wednesday, two days after a sudden resignation of the former chief organizer.Kim Jung-haeng, who heads the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC), will also oversee operations of the organizing committee of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, an alpine town about 180 kilometers east of Seoul, until it finds a full-time replacement for the former president of the committee, Ki

July 23, 2014

Chief organizer of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics offers to resign

The chief organizer of South Korea's first Winter Olympics has offered to resign, a government official said Monday.The official said Kim Jin-sun, head of the organizing committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, recently expressed his intention to quit and that his resignation offer has been accepted, without offering specific time frames.Kim, 67, has been the top organizer of the Winter Games since November 2011, four months after Pyeongchang, an alpine town in the eastern province

July 21, 2014

Brazilian police crack down on pre-World Cup protest

Police in Sao Paulo fired tear gas Monday to disperse protesters supporting a subway strike that has unleashed transport chaos three days before the Brazilian mega-city hosts the World Cup kick-off.A group of about 150 protesters set fire to piles of garbage to block a central avenue in the Brazilian business hub, prompting some two dozen riot police to fire stun grenades and then tear gas to disperse them.The demonstrators were backing a five-day-old strike by subway workers that has posed a ma

June 9, 2014

Korea to file complaint over Olympic figure skating judging

South Korea will file an official complaint with the international governing body for figure skating over the controversial composition of the judging panel for the ladies’ singles competition at this year’s Winter Olympics, officials said on Friday.South Korean star Kim Yu-na won the silver medal in the event at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia last month, finishing more than five points behind Adelina Sotnikova of Russia in a decision that baffled many experts and fans alike. Those who ques

March 21, 2014

Russia opens Sochi Paralympics as Crimea crisis escalates

SOCHI, Russia (AFP) ― Russia opens its first-ever Winter Paralympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday, an opportunity for people with disabilities to triumph but which the crisis in Ukraine threatens to derail.Amid a chill reminiscent of the Cold War, athletes continued to train ahead of the opening ceremony, which is scheduled for 8:14 p.m., and raised their national flags in the Olympic village at the welcoming ceremony Thursday.Among them were 31 Ukrainians, yet to announce their fi

March 7, 2014