North Korea has unilaterally applied to list taekwondo, a traditional Korean martial art, as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), the UNESCO website showed Friday.
The North submitted an application to the UNESCO headquarters in March to inc…
Amy Yang sat seven strokes off the lead through the second round of the women’s golf tournament of the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
Yang, an LPGA veteran who won her maiden major title in June, shot a one-under 71 with four birdies, one bogey and one…
The reigning bronze medalist Jun Woong-tae ranked fourth after the opening fencing event of the modern pentathlon at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
Jun went 22-13 in his 35 fencing matches in the men’s ranking round and earned 235 points to rank fo…
Kim Yu-jin grabbed a stunning gold medal in women’s taekwondo at the Paris Olympics on Thursday for South Korea’s second title in two days in its traditional martial art.
Kim defeated world No. 2 Nahid Kiani of Iran 2-0 (5-1, 9-0) in the final of th…
Kim Yu-jin, the latest Olympic taekwondo champion from South Korea, took a far more circuitous road to Paris than her teammates and many others who fancy themselves as medal contenders.
Of the four South Korean taekwondo practitioners in Paris, Kim,…