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S. Korean Kwon Soon-woo earns 1st career win at Australian Open

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean tennis player Kwon Soon-woo finally has a win at the Australian Open after five tries.Kwon defeated Holger Rune of Denmark in five sets, 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the opening round of the first G
Baseball

Lotte Giants hire ex-MLB pitcher Royce Ring as pitching coordinator

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean baseball club Lotte Giants announced Monday they have acquired former major league pitcher Royce Ring as their new pitching coordinator.Ring, 41, spent his pitching career with the New York Met
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Young speed skater embraces pressure ahead of 2nd Winter Olympics in Beijing

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- At the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, South Korean speed skater Chung Jae-won was a precocious teenager, still about four months away from his 17th birthday. He teamed up with Lee Seung-hoon, 13 years his se
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S. Korean 4-man bobsleigh team ranks season-best 10th in World Cup finale

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean four-man bobsleigh team led by an Olympic medal-winning pilot had its best performance of the season in the final race before the Beijing Winter Games.Won Yun-jong led his quartet to a 10th pla
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Surprise silver medalist from PyeongChang wants to take next step in Beijing

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- Of the seven medals that South Korea won in speed skating at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, none was more surprising than the out-of-the-blue silver by Cha Min-kyu in the men's 500m.Sure, he had won
Baseball

S. Korean teenager Cho Won-bin signs with St. Louis Cardinals

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korean high school baseball prospect Cho Won-bin has inked a deal with the St. Louis Cardinals, months after pulling out of the domestic league draft in pursuit of an American dream.Cho was one of 12 inte
Football

Football youngsters enjoy rare moment in spotlight in convincing friendly win

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- Goals came fast and furious for South Korea, and some of the country's top young football talents got to showcase their chops in a breezy friendly win over Iceland on Saturday.South Korea enjoyed a 5-1 vict
Football

S. Korea cruise past Iceland 5-1 in men's football friendly

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea overwhelmed Iceland in a resounding 5-1 victory in their men's football friendly match in Turkey on Saturday, flexing their attacking muscle in the first of two tuneup games ahead of World Cup q
Football

EPL Player of the Month for December goes to City's Raheem Sterling, not Son Heung-min

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min failed to win the Premier League Player of the Month for December. It goes to Manchester City's Raheem Sterling. Sterling was vot
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Emerging speed skater hoping to follow in Olympic champion's footsteps

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- Of all South Korean speed skaters headed to the Beijing Winter Olympics next month, no one has a tougher act to follow than Kim Min-sun.The 22-year-old will be the lone South Korean to have qualified for the wo
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Speed skater Lee Seung-hoon not caught up in record medal chase

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean speed skater Lee Seung-hoon has put together an impressive resume over the past three Winter Olympics, having collected five medals, including two gold.The 33-year-old is now one medal away from be
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Ex-club manager named KBO's new technical director

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- Former manager Youm Kyoung-youb was named the new technical director for South Korean baseball Friday, with his main task being assembling the national team for this year's Asian Games.The Korea Baseball Or
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Ex-Barca youth player thriving with extended opportunity in K League

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- After an ultimately unsuccessful stint in Europe, former FC Barcelona youth player Paik Seung-ho has been penning a much better chapter of his career at home.His success with the K League 1 champions Jeonbuk Hy
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Nat'l football coach holding out hope for return of injured stars Son, Hwang

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- With South Korea's World Cup qualifying campaign scheduled to resume later this month, the team's head coach Paulo Bento hasn't abandoned hope of having two of his most important players back from i
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K Leaguers to vie for inclusion for World Cup qualifiers in friendly vs. Iceland

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- With South Korea on the verge of reaching the 2022 FIFA World Cup, players from the domestic league will have a couple of cracks this month at stating their case for inclusion on the national team for upcoming
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LPGA star Kim Sei-young to pace herself in pursuit of No. 1 ranking in 2022

SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- Kim Sei-young had collected at least one LPGA victory in every season since bursting on to the scene in 2015, but that streak came to an end in 2021.Looking back on last season, Kim said Thursday she might have overexerted
Football

Pro football season set for earliest start to accommodate World Cup

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean professional football will have its earliest start to a season in 2022 to accommodate participation in the FIFA World Cup in November, the league office announced Thursday.The 2022 K League 1 s
Baseball

Pitcher known for high fastball welcomes expanded KBO strike zone

SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- Doosan Bears' sidearm pitcher Choi Won-joon likes to live high in the strike zone. He threw his fastball about 58 percent of the time last year, and about 40 percent of those pitches sat in the top of the zone.Until las
Football

FC Seoul coach appreciative of hard-working veterans

NAMHAE, South Korea, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- With FC Seoul having gone through a topsy-turvy 2021 season that included a coaching change, new bench boss An Ik-soo decided to give some of his veterans extra rest before the starting of offseason training c
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(LEAD) Women's football coach wants to go 'step by step' toward continental title, World Cup berth

(ATTN: ADDS player's comments in paras 15-16, details in paras 7, 17-18; CHANGES photos)NAMHAE, South Korea, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- With his team just days away from entering the top continental women's football tournament, South Korea head coac