Korean American players look to shine for Team Korea at 2026 WBC

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

March 4, 2026

Team Korea touches down in Osaka ahead of WBC showdown

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

Feb. 28, 2026

A city built for healing: Daejeon’s bid to welcome the Invictus Games

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

Feb. 25, 2026

PSG's Lee Kang-in named top S. Korean footballer of 2025

Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Lee Kang-in has been named South Korean football'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's first honor. The winner was determined by votes from the media and KFA officials. During the 2024-25 season

Feb. 24, 2026

S. Korean athletes return home after Winter Olympics in Italy

The main group of South Korean athletes who competed at the Winter Olympics in Italy returned home Tuesday after meeting the country'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

Feb. 24, 2026

2026 Winter Games close with celebration of athletes' feats in northern Italy

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'Ampezzo, which held curling and some snow events, are about 260 k

Feb. 23, 2026

Korean Olympic chief pledges better support for future competitions

MILAN -- Not entirely satisfied with the country'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's wrap-up press conference at Korea House in Milan on Sunday, the final day of the competition. With South Korea's

Feb. 22, 2026

Short track double gold medalist Kim Gil-li voted Korean MVP

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'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's 1,500 met

Feb. 22, 2026

S. Korea rides late spurt to meet gold medal target

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

Feb. 22, 2026

Short tracker bids adieu to Olympics after record-setting run

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's most decorated Olympian. Choi earned her seventh career medal with a silver behind teammate Kim Gil-li in the women'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

Feb. 21, 2026

Short track relay team wants to run it back in 2030 after grabbing silver

MILAN -- The narrative would have been quite neat. South Korea's last gold medal in the men'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

Feb. 21, 2026

S. Korean short trackers win gold, silver in women's 1,500m

Short track speed skaters Kim Gil-li and Choi Min-jeong captured the gold and silver medals in the women'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'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

Feb. 21, 2026

Snowboard medalist glad with switch from table tennis

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,

Feb. 20, 2026

Final stretch of the Olympics: Where can South Korea still win medals?

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

Feb. 20, 2026

S. Korea falls short of medal round in women's curling; ex-bobsledder elected IOC member

South Korea's hopes of winning its second-ever Olympic medal in curling evaporated Thursday in northern Italy. Skip Gim Eun-ji's South Korea was knocked out of the women's curling tournament after a 10-7 loss to Canada in its final round-robin match at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d'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

Feb. 20, 2026