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    <title><![CDATA[Ryu Hyun-jin announces retirement from int&apos;l play after loss to Dominican Republic]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:44:52 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[It&apos;s not the way he wanted to end it, but following a loss to the Dominican Republic in the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) on Friday, South Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin announced his retirement from international play. Ryu was the losing pitcher in a 10-0 Dominican victory over South Korea at loanDepot park in Miami, where the left-handed starter allowed three runs in 1 2/3 innings. &quot;I think this is it for me,&quot; said Ryu, who turns 39 on March 25. &quot;The ending is disappointing, b]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Starter gets early hook, relievers struggle in big loss in quarterfinals]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:48:43 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The veteran pitcher that the team trusted the most couldn&apos;t deliver the goods, and the relievers that followed him failed to put out the fire, as South Korea took a beating from the Dominican Republic in the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) on Friday. The Dominicans shut down South Korea 10-0 at loanDepot park in Miami to advance to the semifinals. The game ended on a mercy rule with two outs in the seventh when Austin Wells&apos; three-run home run gave the Dominicans a 10-run lead.]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[S. Korea humbled by Dominican Republic in quarterfinals]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:38:29 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea absorbed a 10-0 loss to the Dominican Republic in the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) on Friday, as its first trip to the knockout stage lasted just one game. The Dominican Republic scored three times in the second and four more times in the third at loanDepot park in Miami, while South Korea managed just two hits. The game was called with two outs in the bottom of the seventh when Austin Wells launched a three-run homer off So Hyeong-jun to put the Dominicans up by]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Veteran pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin hoping for deep run in knockout round]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:41:39 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Veteran South Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin hasn&apos;t pitched in the United States since he left the majors following the 2023 season, and now he will get to reacquaint himself with American surroundings this week, as the national team prepares for the knockout round of the World Baseball Classic. The journey begins in the quarterfinals scheduled for Friday evening in Miami, and Ryu wants to make sure it lasts longer than just that one game. &quot;We want to play a couple more games here,&quot; Ryu said after ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Para cross-country skier wins record 3rd medal for S. Korea]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:53:24 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Para cross-country skier Kim Yun-ji captured her third medal of the ongoing Winter Paralympics in northern Italy on Wednesday. By taking the silver medal in the women&apos;s 10-kilometer interval start sitting event at Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium in Tesero, Kim also set the record for the most medals by a South Korean athlete at a single Winter Paralympics. Shin Eui-hyun had the previous mark with two medals, a gold and a bronze, in para cross-country skiing at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Par]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Captain clutch: Lee Jung-hoo delivers big hit, key catch to send S. Korea to quarterfinals]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:09:49 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Before South Korea played a win-or-go-home game against Australia at the World Baseball Classic on Monday, team captain Lee Jung-hoo gathered his teammates in a huddle for a pregame speech. The meeting hardly seemed solemn, despite what was at stake for South Korea as it was seeking a trip to the quarterfinals. A loss would have eliminated the team from knockout contention for the fourth consecutive WBC. A South Korea win would create a tiebreaking situation with Australia and Chinese Taipei, an]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Going to Miami: S. Korea beats Australia to reach quarterfinals]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:42:39 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea defeated Australia 7-2 on Monday to advance to the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic, getting out of the opening round for the first time in 17 years after beating steep odds to win the tiebreaker. Designated hitter Moon Bo-gyeong hammered a two-run home run as part of his four-RBI night at Tokyo Dome in the teams&apos; final Pool C game, helping South Korea grab the final ticket to Miami. In order to move on to the quarterfinals, South Korea had to beat Australia by at least fi]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kim Yun-ji wins Korea’s first women’s gold at Winter Paralympics]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10689466</link>  
    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:23:27 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea’s para biathlete Kim Yun-ji won a gold medal Sunday in the women’s sitting biathlon sprint at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics, becoming the first Korean female athlete to claim gold at the Winter Paralympics. Kim, 19, finished the women’s sitting 12.5 kilometer sprint in 38 minutes and 0.1 seconds at the Tesero Cross-Country Stadium in Italy, beating Anja Wicker of Germany to take the top spot on the podium. The victory marks the first individual gold medal by a South Korea]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lee Mi-hyang captures 3rd career LPGA title in China]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:10:12 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Lee Mi-hyang has claimed her third career LPGA title in China, ending a long winless drought in the process. Lee won the Blue Bay LPGA at Jian Lake Blue Bay Golf Course in Hainan Island, China, on Sunday by shooting an 11-under 277. The 32-year-old South Korean held off Zhang Weiwei of China by one stroke and earned $390,000 in prize money. Lee struggled to a final round of one-over 73. She had two double bogeys, two bogeys and two birdies on the chaotic front nine, but recovered with three bird]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[S. Korean bats start off hot, cool off later vs. Japan]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:55:01 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The South Korean bats started off hot before cooling off considerably in a deflating 8-6 loss to Japan at the World Baseball Classic on Saturday. The first three South Korean batters of the game each hit a single off starter Yusei Kikuchi, with Lee Jung-hoo capping that run with an RBI knock to left. Three batters later, Moon Bo-gyeong, an offensive hero with a grand slam in the team&apos;s 11-4 win over Czechia on Thursday, delivered a two-run double to center to give South Korea a 3-0 lead. South K]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Team Korea begins 10-day race for Paralympic glory]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:41:40 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics began its 10-day run Friday night local time, with a record 611 athletes from 55 countries participating, including 56 members of Team South Korea. At the opening ceremony held in Verona, Italy, para snowboard athlete Lee Chung-min and para alpine skier Park Chae-yi attended along with delegation head Yang Oh-yeol and athletes&apos; village chief Jeon Seon-ju, following the International Paralympic Committee guideline allowing up to two athletes and two offic]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[With 1st win out of way, S. Korea looking to end winless drought vs. Japan]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:22:11 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[It has been more than 10 years since South Korea last beat Japan in a best-on-best baseball game featuring professional players. It came in the semifinals of the World Baseball Softball Confederation Premier12 in November 2015, when South Korea rallied for a 4-3 win. After that, Japan went on to win 10 consecutive games. Japan nearly stretched that streak to 11 wins in an exhibition game last November before Kim Ju-won came to South Korea&apos;s rescue with a game-tying solo shot with two outs in the]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[S. Korea pounds Czechia in opener with 4 home runs]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:58:37 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea launched four home runs to defeat Czechia 11-4 to begin its World Baseball Classic campaign Thursday, getting off on the right foot in its quest toward a knockout spot. Shay Whitcomb, one of three US-born players of Korean descent, smacked two homers after Moon Bo-gyeong hammered a first-inning grand slam to set the early tone at Tokyo Dome in the teams&apos; first Pool C game. Jahmai Jones added a solo blast in the eighth inning to cap South Korea&apos;s explosion. Starter So Hyeong-jun tosse]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gold-winning short tracker Kim Gil-li models for Chanel]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:58:05 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Kim Gil-li, a two-time short track speedskating gold medalist at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, has participated in a fashion shoot with luxury brand Chanel. On Wednesday, Kim posted three photos from the set she worked on with the French luxury brand to her social media, along with a brief message. “At first it felt a bit unfamiliar, but discovering a new side of myself was also a fun experience,” Kim wrote. “Participating in ‘CC League by Chanel Beauty’ with Chanel gave me time to thi]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Graphic News] South Korea aims for WBC victory]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea heads into the World Baseball Classic running from Thursday to March 17 with its 30-man roster now set, as announced by the Korea Baseball Organization. The roster includes seven overseas-based players, headlined by San Francisco Giants outfielder Lee Jung-hoo and Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Kim Hye-seong, along with MLB and Korean American big leaguers. National team manager Ryu Ji-yun will lead the squad. Right-hander Go Woo-suk, playing in the minors under the Detroit Tigers, al]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Korean American players look to shine for Team Korea at 2026 WBC]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:56:26 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea’s roster for the 2026 World Baseball Classic boasts an impressive roster of six US-based players. Among them, three in particular stand out: They neither speak Korean fluently nor have ever been part of the Korean Baseball Organization. For Jahmai Jones of the Detroit Tigers, Dane Dunning of the Seattle Mariners and Shay Whitcomb of the Houston Astros, joining Team Korea is about honoring their mothers’ homeland. With the trio included, this marks the largest group of foreign players]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Team Korea touches down in Osaka ahead of WBC showdown]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:10:02 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea’s national baseball on Sunday team wrapped up their final scrimmage in Okinawa and traveled to Osaka ahead of the World Baseball Classic for a pair of official pre-WBC games against Nippon Professional Baseball clubs. Photos: Yonhap]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[A city built for healing: Daejeon’s bid to welcome the Invictus Games]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:12:56 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[DAEJEON — “I didn’t want these venues to become places where an event simply comes and goes,” said Moon Hyun-kyu, director of rehabilitation sports at the Korea Disabled Veterans Association, as he looked across the spectator stands of Yongun International Swimming Pool on Wednesday. Gesturing toward the rows of tiered seating, Moon said organizers hope to fill as many as 3,000 seats with local residents during the Games. Standing beside him, Invictus Games Foundation Chief Executive Rob Owen wa]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[PSG&apos;s Lee Kang-in named top S. Korean footballer of 2025]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:47:55 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Lee Kang-in has been named South Korean football&apos;s top male player for 2025. The Korea Football Associati on Tuesday announced Lee as the winner of its annual Male Player of the Year award at the KFA Awards ceremony at Korea Football Park in Cheonan, some 90 kilometers south of Seoul. The KFA began recognizing top individual players in 2010, and this is Lee&apos;s first honor. The winner was determined by votes from the media and KFA officials. During the 2024-25 season]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[S. Korean athletes return home after Winter Olympics in Italy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:45:08 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The main group of South Korean athletes who competed at the Winter Olympics in Italy returned home Tuesday after meeting the country&apos;s gold medal target. South Korea finished the Milan-Cortina Winter Games, which concluded Sunday, with three gold medals, four silver medals and three bronze medals, good for 13th place in the medal race. South Korea had set out to win at least one more gold medal than the two it had taken home from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and accomplished that mission tha]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[2026 Winter Games close with celebration of athletes&apos; feats in northern Italy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:16:11 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The 2026 Winter Olympic Games drew to a conclusion Sunday with a celebration of the athletic feats achieved over the past two weeks across northern Italy. The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics was the first to officially feature the names of two host cities in the title and to have two Olympic cauldrons. The competition itself was even more widespread. Milan, the financial capital of Italy that hosted all skating events, and Cortina d&apos;Ampezzo, which held curling and some snow events, are about 260 k]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Korean Olympic chief pledges better support for future competitions]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:39:43 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[MILAN -- Not entirely satisfied with the country&apos;s performance at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics this month, South Korean Olympic chief Ryu Seung-min pledged better support for his athletes for future competitions. Ryu, president of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee, touched upon the state of training environments and budget issues for South Korean Olympians at the delegation&apos;s wrap-up press conference at Korea House in Milan on Sunday, the final day of the competition. With South Korea&apos;s ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Short track double gold medalist Kim Gil-li voted Korean MVP]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:34:52 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[MILAN -- Short track speed skater Kim Gil-li, the only South Korean to win multiple gold medals at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, was named the country&apos;s top athlete at the competition Sunday. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee said Kim was voted the MVP of the South Korean delegation by South Korean journalists covering the Winter Olympics in northern Italy. The quadrennial event will draw to a conclusion with a closing ceremony Sunday evening. Kim won gold medals in the women&apos;s 1,500 met]]>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:59:29 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Thanks to some late push from its short track speed skaters, South Korea met its target of taking home at least three gold medals from the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics this month. With its last athletes in action, a pair of four-man bobsleigh teams, well out of medal contention entering the final day of the Olympics on Sunday, South Korea will likely finish with three gold medals, four silver medals and three bronze medals. South Korea won two golds, five silvers and two bronzes at the 2022 Bei]]>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:18:35 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[MILAN -- South Korean short track speed skating legend Choi Min-jeong bid farewell to the Winter Olympics on Friday night in Italy, moments after becoming the country&apos;s most decorated Olympian. Choi earned her seventh career medal with a silver behind teammate Kim Gil-li in the women&apos;s 1,500 meters at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan. Though Choi came up just shy of becoming the first short tracker ever to win three straight gold medals in the same individual race, she set the record for the mo]]>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:13:36 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[MILAN -- The narrative would have been quite neat. South Korea&apos;s last gold medal in the men&apos;s 5,000-meter short track speed skating relay had come in 2006 in the Italian host city of Turin. And ending the 20-year drought in another Italian city, Milan, on Friday night would have been one of the feel-good stories for South Korea at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Instead, South Korea took silver behind the Netherlands at Milano Ice Skating Arena, with the quartet of Lee June-seo, Lee Jeong-min]]>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:54:34 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Short track speed skaters Kim Gil-li and Choi Min-jeong captured the gold and silver medals in the women&apos;s 1,500 meters at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Friday. Kim held off Choi for her second gold medal and her third medal overall at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan on the final day of short track races at this year&apos;s Olympics. Kim became the first double gold medalist for South Korea here while also denying Choi her third consecutive gold in this distance. With her seventh career meda]]>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:07:54 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[MILAN -- While spending most of the year 2025 rehabbing multiple injuries, snowboarder Yu Seung-eun kept wondering why she even picked up the sport in the first place. After all, she was essentially forced into snowboard when her mother signed her up for a camp while she was in elementary school. Up until then, Yu had been playing table tennis, with an eye on developing into a more competitive junior player. Now in 2026, Yu has a much different perspective on her early career switch. On Feb. 9, ]]>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:56:21 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[With only three days left before the close of the Winter Olympics, South Korea is lining up a final push for medals. As of Friday, the country has secured two gold, two silver and three bronze medals, ranking 15th in the overall standings. While its initial goal of finishing in the top 10 appears challenging, hopes for a late surge remain, as several key events are still to come. Korea will have medal chances in two short track speedskating events — the women’s 1,500 meters and the men’s 5,000-m]]>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:28:55 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea&apos;s hopes of winning its second-ever Olympic medal in curling evaporated Thursday in northern Italy. Skip Gim Eun-ji&apos;s South Korea was knocked out of the women&apos;s curling tournament after a 10-7 loss to Canada in its final round-robin match at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d&apos;Ampezzo, 260 kilometers northeast of Milan. With the score tied at 4-4, Canada scored four massive points in the sixth end and punched a ticket to the semifinals with the three-point win. With a 5-4 rec]]>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:17:08 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[While preparing for Thursday night&apos;s free skate at her first Winter Olympics in Italy, figure skater Lee Hae-in tried to stop and smell the roses, instead of just having tunnel vision on the task at hand. A sensitive type who enjoys drawing and jotting down her thoughts throughout the day, Lee looked out the window of her shuttle bus taking her back to the village after a training session Thursday afternoon and fell in love with the sunset in Milan. &quot;I took pictures and wrote how pretty the suns]]>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[More than 8 out of 10 of respondents in an international survey expressed a favorable view of Korea, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The ministry’s 2025 Survey on Korea’s National Image showed that overall favorability rose 3.3 percentage points from the previous year to 82.3 percent, the highest level since the survey began in 2018. By region, people in the Middle East and Southeast Asia showed the strongest fondness for Korea. The United Arab Emirates ranked first at ]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:50:03 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korean gold medalist Choi Ga-on posted a picture to her Instagram story Thursday, revealing she sustained three fractures in the women’s snowboard halfpipe finals at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. In the post, Choi wrote “3 fractures” over a photo of her receiving a medical diagnosis. The snowboarder, 17, claimed the South Korean national team&apos;s first gold medal. She was also the youngest athlete to win the women’s halfpipe event at the Winter Olympic Games in Livigno Snow on Feb. 13, ]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:18:03 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The South Korean women&apos;s short track team captured gold in the 3,000-meter relay on Wednesday, ending an eight-year Olympic gold drought and delivering the nation&apos;s first short track title of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The quartet of Choi Min-jeong, Kim Gil-li, Noh Do-hee and Shim Suk-hee clocked a winning time of 4:04:014, marking South Korea&apos;s seventh Olympic gold in this event and reclaiming a throne they last occupied on home turf at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. The team took an early]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:09:06 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[When Kim Gil-li entered the lane as the South Korean anchor in the final of the women&apos;s 3,000-meter short track relay at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games on Wednesday night, she was trailing Arianna Fontana of Italy, the most decorated short tracker in Olympic history. With two laps remaining in the 27-lap race at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, all Kim wanted to do was not to fall at such a critical juncture. The athlete nicknamed &quot;Lambor-Gilli&quot; after the famous Italian sports car for her spee]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:41:42 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea collected its second gold medal of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Wednesday in short track speed skating, as the women&apos;s 3,000-meter relay team came through with the top prize. The team of Choi Min-jeong, Kim Gil-li, Noh Do-hee and Shim Suk-hee finished first in the 27-lap race, ahead of Italy and Canada, for South Korea&apos;s first short track gold medal of these Winter Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan. Midway through the race, Choi nearly fell to the ice when Michelle V]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:33:55 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea captured the women&apos;s short track relay title on Wednesday for its first gold medal in the sport at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. The quartet of Choi Min-jeong, Kim Gil-li, Shim Suk-hee and Noh Do-hee finished first in the women&apos;s 3,000-meter short track relay, ahead of Italy and Canada at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan. This was South Korea&apos;s second gold medal of this year&apos;s Winter Games, and its seventh medal overall. South Korea came into Wednesday with one silver and two b]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, the 25th edition of the Winter Games, features eight sports and 16 disciplines, with 116 gold medals up for grabs, including the Olympic debut of ski mountaineering. Long practiced in the Alps, the sport was approved by the International Olympic Committee in 2019 upon lobbying by the International Ski Mountaineering Federation, which emphasized its growing global participation, sustainability and natural fit with the host region’s alpine terrain. Ski mount]]>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:31:01 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Five days after narrowly missing the podium in the men&apos;s singles event at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, South Korean figure skater Cha Jun-hwan revealed Wednesday he had performed on a bad ankle. After a training session for his gala show at Milano Ice Skating Arena, Cha told reporters that he still had not decided if he would compete at the world championships next month in Prague. &quot;Actually, my body was not 100 percent,&quot; Cha said. &quot;Over the past month, I&apos;d been switching my skate boots qu]]>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:08:02 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea blew out Sweden to close in on a spot in the semifinals of the women&apos;s curling tournament at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Wednesday. Gim Eun-ji&apos;s South Korea handily beat Anna Hasselborg&apos;s Sweden 8-3 at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d&apos;Ampezzo, 260 kilometers northeast of Milan. South Korea improved to 5-3 while Sweden, who had already clinched a semifinal berth, dropped to 6-2. South Korea will close out its round-robin play against Canada on Thursday with a chan]]>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:34:01 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Lee Hae-in found herself just inside the top 10 after the short program in the women&apos;s singles figure skating event at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Tuesday. Lee scored her season-best 70.07 points at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan to finish ninth in the short program. Lee opened her program, set to &quot;Sirens&quot; by Christopher Tin, with a triple lutz-triple toe loop combination. Though she appeared to land both jumps well, Lee was called for an under-rotation of her landing of the triple t]]>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:26:39 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Both South Korean teams competing in the two-man bobsleigh at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics finished outside the top 10 on Tuesday. Pilot Kim Jin-su and brakeman Kim Hyeong-geun finished in 13th place with a time of 3:43.60 after four runs at Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d&apos;Ampezzo, 260 kilometers northeast of Milan. They were 3.90 seconds behind the gold medal duo of Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer of Germany (3:39.70). The South Korean duo sat in 12th place after the first two ]]>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:23:55 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Having failed to meet her own expectations in the short program, figure skater Shin Ji-a said Tuesday she will try to put disappointment behind her to prepare for the free skate at the ongoing Winter Games. Shin earned 65.66 points in her short program of the women&apos;s singles competition at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan. It was 8.81 points below her season-best score of 74.47 from September. Shin opened her program with a clean triple lutz but fell to the ]]>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:21:29 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[At the end of the first Olympic short program of her career Tuesday night in Milan, figure skater Lee Hae-in showed very little emotion. It was difficult to tell if she was pleased or not with her performance. The South Korean ended up getting the best short program score of the season with 70.07 points at Milano Ice Skating Arena. Make no mistake: she was quite happy with the score but she just didn&apos;t know how to react to her own performance. &quot;I didn&apos;t think I would receive that high of a score]]>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:13:21 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea lost to Switzerland 7-5 in the women&apos;s curling tournament at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games on Tuesday for its third loss in seven matches so far. Gim Eun-ji&apos;s South Korea got the first point in the opening end at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d&apos;Ampezzo, northeast of Milan, before Silvana Tirinzoni&apos;s Switzerland put up a three-spot in the second end with Alina Paetz&apos;s promotion takeout with her team&apos;s final stone. But South Korea tied the score with a point each in the t]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:22:34 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[MILAN (Yonhap) -- Short track speed skater Kim Gil-li gave South Korea its sixth medal of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics with her bronze medal in the women&apos;s 1,000 meters Monday. Kim finished behind Xandra Velzeboer of the Netherlands and Courtney Sarault of Canada for her first career Olympic medal at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan. South Korea now has one gold medal, two silver medals and three bronze medals, as the final week of the Winter Olympics got under way in northern Italy. Kim b]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:01:22 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[MILAN (Yonhap) -- Short track speed skater Choi Min-jeong will take her fourth crack at winning her record-tying sixth career Olympic medal Wednesday. Choi will skate alongside three teammates in the 3,000-meter relay final at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan on Wednesday. South Korea will be up against Canada, Italy and the Netherlands in the final, scheduled to start at 9 p.m. (local time). With five medals over the two previous Olympic Games, Choi sits a medal away from tying the mark for th]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:49:03 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Having emerged virtually unscathed from what could have been a devastating crash earlier at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, short track speed skater Kim Gil-li stayed on her feet for her first career medal Monday. And it was fitting that for a skater so fast that she has been dubbed &quot;Lambor-Gilli,&quot; after the famous Italian sports car, that medal came in Italy. Kim, 21, claimed the bronze medal in the women&apos;s 1,000 meters at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan on Monday, six days after she was t]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:45:26 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[At the last Winter Olympic Games held in Italy, Turin 2006, South Korea collected six out of eight gold medals up for grabs. Ahn Hyun-soo and Jin Sun-yu each took three gold medals in the men&apos;s and women&apos;s races. South Korea, however, hasn&apos;t been nearly as successful in Italy this year. With five medal events in the books and four more remaining, South Korea is still without a gold medal. The all-time leader with 56 medals in Olympic short track speed skating, South Korea has so far taken one si]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:21:17 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Speed skating sprinter Lee Na-hyun is leaving her first Winter Olympics in northern Italy feeling good about her medal prospects at the next competition in the French Alps in 2030. Lee, 20, capped her Winter Games debut on Sunday with a 10th-place finish in the women&apos;s 500 meters at Milano Speed Skating Stadium in Milan. She clocked 37.86 seconds. Lee had the eighth-fastest start with 10.47 seconds over the opening 100m, but she slowed considerably over the next 400m, coming home in 27.39 second]]>
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