Heo Woong 31 Points… Professional Basketball KCC Completely Defeats Sono with a Season-High 117 Points SK defeats Hyundai Mobis and embarks on an easy trip to the East Asian Super League Busan KCC, which was missing two key players, showed off its powerful firepower and hastened its steps towards the round of 6 playoffs. KCC …
22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal will retire from tennis after next month’s Davis Cup finals
Rafael Nadal announced his impending retirement from tennis on Thursday at age 38 after winning 22 Grand Slam singles titles during an unprecedented era he shared with his rivals in the so-called Big Three, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Nadal said he will retire after next month’s Davis Cup finals. “Really, everything I have experienced …
With Korea missing their injured captain Son Heung-min for a key World Cup qualifying match against Jordan in Amman Thursday, one of his closest friends on the national team raised his game a notch. He had support from a couple of youngsters, too. Korea beat Jordan 2-0 at Amman International Stadium for their second consecutive …
Korean novelist Han Kang has become the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy announced, Thursday, that Han, 53, was the winner of the prestigious prize. She is the second Korean Nobel laureate, following former President Kim Dae-jung, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for his efforts to …
VIENTIANE, Laos — Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held a summit on the sidelines of the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Summit in Vientiane, Laos, where they pledged to continue strengthening their cooperative bilateral relationship, the presidential office announced Thursday. The summit marked the first in-person meeting between the two …
Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees hit the 58th home run of the 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season. He’s been cannon for five games in a row. With three games left in the regular season, it will be interesting to see if he can reach 60. Judge batted third and played center field …
Rookie catcher Lee Joo-heon, 21, of the LG Twins of the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO), has improved his chances of making the postseason with a surprise performance. Lee started at No. 8 catcher against Kiwoom on June 26 at Jamsil Stadium. In his first career start in LG’s final home game of the season, Lee …
The Lotte Giants have been plagued by an injury nightmare all season. There will be plenty of sighs after the season ends. The two players in charge of the ‘center line’ will spend the off-season rehabilitating due to injuries. Go Seung-min, who is perfectly settled at second base and has a fire bat, and Son …
Roenis Elias (SSG Landers) showed what it means to be an ace. Elias started the away game against the NC Dinos at Changwon NC Park on April 26. SSG used six pitchers, including starter Park Jong-hoon, against NC on the 25th, and the mound was heavily used up. Speaking to the press before the game …
Former major league All-Star Ryu Hyun-jin will likely make two preseason appearances before marking his much-anticipated regular season return to the top South Korean league, his manager said Monday. Ryu and the Hanwha Eagles returned home Monday from their spring training in Okinawa, Japan. Ryu, the 2019 National League All-Star Game starter, reunited with the …