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S. Korea men's, women's football coaches set sights on winning regional title

Colin Bell, right, the manager of the South Korea women's national football team, speaks during a press conference in Seoul, Tuesday. Next to him are Paulo Bento, the men's national team manager, Hong Myung-bo, a former national team player now representing the Korean Football Association, and Park Yong-soo, secretary general of the 2019 East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) E-1 Football Championship which will kick off in Busan in December. /YonhapHost South Korea will be out to win both the men's and women's titles at an upcoming regional football tournament, the teams' head coaches said Tuesday.Paulo Bento, the men's bench boss, and Colin Bell, the new head coach of the women's team, discussed their goals for the 2019 East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) E-1 Football Championship at the tournament kickoff press conference.The eighth edition of the regional competition will run from Dec. 10-18 in Busan, 450 kilometers southeast of Seoul. South Korea has hosted two previous tournaments.The South Korean men, ranked 39th in the world, are going for their third straight title and thei

Oct 30, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
S. Korea men's, women's football coaches set sights on winning regional title
Sports

Bears' pitcher Bae announces retirement

Bae Young-soo throwing a ball/ Korea Times file After 138 regular season wins and eight championship rings, the 38-year-old right-hander Bae Young-soo is finally calling it a day in South Korean baseball.And the last pitch he threw in his 18-year career in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) clinched a title for the Doosan Bears on Saturday.Bae said Tuesday that he'd thanked his Bears teammates over dinner the previous night for sending him out on a high note and that he'd also informed the coaching staff."That was my retirement announcement," Bae said. "I have no regrets whatsoever."In what will go down as his last game, Bae came on with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning in Game 4 of the Korean Series against the Kiwoom Heroes on Saturday. The Bears were leading 11-9 and were two outs from completing the four-game sweep of the Heroes. Bae struck out Park Byung-ho and then retired Jerry Sands on a soft grounder back to the mound. Bae fielded the ball and to

Oct 29, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
Bears' pitcher Bae announces retirement
Travel & Food

Sangha Farm captivates visitors with organic experiences

Sheep rest on the slopes on Sangha Farm. /Courtesy of Sangha FarmBy Kim Se-jeong GOCHANG, North Jeolla Province ― Gochang, 250 kilometers southwest of Seoul, has a flat landscape and enjoys a reputation as a clean county. UNESCO's inclusion of the rural county into the world's Biosphere Reserves Network in May 2013 has helped it maintain such an image. Kim Bok-yong, the founder of Maeil Dairies who died in 2006 at age 86, was a visionary business leader and purchased land in Gochang to start his dairy business in the 1960s.Ranging from plain milk to flavored dairy products, cheese, flavored coffee, yogurt and baby milk, Maeil Dairies has grown fast over the decades.In 2008, the company added organic milk to its brand portfolio.The farm staff said launching the organic milk line came from the company management's vision to deliver quality food to consumers in Korea amid food safety woes that reached its peak in 2008 when melamine-tainted milk powder killed babies in China.“For two years, the company tried hard to persuade local farmers in Gochang to join its organic milk project

Oct 24, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
Sangha Farm captivates visitors with organic experiences
Sports

Korea's first Olympic silver medalist dies at 85

Hong Soon-chunBy Kim Se-jeong Hong Soon-chun, a professor emeritus of Yong-in University and a former boxer who won South Korea's first Olympic silver medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in Australia, died on Tuesday. He was 85.The Boxing Association of Korea has not disclosed the cause of his death. Hong was last seen on Oct. 4 at the opening ceremony of the National Sports Festival. He was reportedly in a wheelchair, suffering pneumonia. Born in 1934, Hong won the silver medal in the bantamweight men's boxing event at the Melbourne Games in 1956, a year after the Korean War armistice was signed. His rival was Wolfgang Behrendt from Germany, and the sports community in Korea refuted the result, arguing Hong had fallen victim to racial discrimination by the referee. Bae Soon-hak, former secretary general of the Korean Sports and Olympic Committee, wrote in his recent book that Behrendt had later sent Hong a personal letter acknowledging the referee's discrimination and “conceding” defeat. Hong devoted the rest of his life to being an educator. He taught at Cheongju Unive

Oct 16, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
Korea's first Olympic silver medalist dies at 85
Society

Korean researcher invents plastic bag using pulp and crab shell

Hwang Sung-yeon, a researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, speaks during a recent interview with the Korea Times. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul By Kim Se-jeong Hwang Sung-yeon, 45, a researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, recently invented a plastic bag using substances from pulp and crab shells, the first invention of its kind by a Korean researcher.“The new bags are stronger and more durable than existing plastic bags and decompose faster,” Hwang said during a recent interview with The Korea Times.The new invention is expected to contribute to combat climate change. Existing plastic products are made of petroleum and coal, fossil fuel, blamed as contributing factors to climate change, are said to take centuries to decompose.“Climate change requires us to go fossil fuel free. Plastic is all about fossil fuel and the solution is bioplastic. I am happy to make a contribution.” Hwang's new plastic takes six

Oct 15, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
Sports

After running in N. Korea, British snowboarder convinced sport can open up isolated countries

Aimee Fuller of Britain, left, and Mirjam Jaeger of Switzerland, right, train with North Korean athletes in preparation for the Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon in Pyongyang on April 7, 2019. Olympic Channel-YonhapFor British Olympic snowboarder Aimee Fuller, North Korea was unknown territory, literally. And running a marathon was unknown territory, figuratively.This past spring, she decided to throw herself into both when she entered an international marathon in Pyongyang. And the 28-year-old came away with renewed faith in the power of sport as "a tool at opening up the most isolated places" ― even the country often referred to as the "Hermit Kingdom.""My takeaway moment is how sport really is a powerful language," Fuller told Yonhap News Agency in a recent e-mail interview. "It can be used as a tool to bring people together even in the most isolated and cut-off situations."For British Olympic snowboarder Aimee Fuller, North Korea was unknown territory, literally. And running a marathon was unknown territory, figuratively.This past spring, she decided to throw herself into

Oct 7, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
After running in N. Korea, British snowboarder convinced sport can open up isolated countries
Sports

Jang Ha-na edges out Lee Da-yeon with stunning shot on final hole

Jang Ha-na, the winter of the Hana Financial Group Championship kisses the trophy during the award ceremony at Sky 72 Golf Club in Incheon, west of Seoul, Sunday. YonhapBy Kim Jeong-kyooJang Ha-na won the Hana Financial Group Championship following an astonishing shot on the penultimate hole, Sunday, when she nearly converted her third shot into an eagle. However, she had to settle for a winning tap-in birdie.The 27-year-old had rounds of 69-65-72-70 for an overall 12-under 276, coming from a single stroke behind to victory at the 6,579-yard Sky 72 Golf Club's Ocean Course in Incheon, west of Seoul, after setting a course record 65, Friday. Jang edged Lee Da-yeon by a single stroke, after being winless for a year-and-a-half, to claim her first win of the season and her 11th overall on the KLPGA Tour, earning a winner's check for 375 million won.The win was no easy matter as she had a roller-coaster final round, nearly losing out to Lee who rattled off three birdies in a row over the opening stretch to take the lead, before the miraculous approach on the 17th. Entering the final round

Oct 6, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
Jang Ha-na edges out Lee Da-yeon with stunning shot on final hole
Sports

National sports event paves way to Korea's Olympic saga

The 1951 games in Gwangju took place during the Korean War. Courtesy of Bae Soon-hakBy Kim Se-jeongBae Soon-hakBae Soon-hak, 78, former secretary general of the Korean Sports and Olympic Committee, is a living witness to the rise and fall of the National Sports Festival (NSF). Representing their provinces and metropolitan cities, athletes from all sports disciplines compete to win medals.“Korea's current strong presence in international sports events is possible because of the annual domestic sports gala,” Bae said during a recent interview with The Korea Times. Bae said the NSF has been the springboard to the Olympic Games. “The National Sports Festival discovered and nurtured athletes,” he said, adding that the event which takes place every year “is a great system to help athletes improve their performances through competition. Athletes work hard to win medals at the domestic event. As competition for medals has become fiercer year after year, the athletes' overall performance had improved a lot. Hence its critical role in international sports events.&

Oct 2, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
National sports event paves way to Korea's Olympic saga
Sports

485th Turtle Marathon to be held on Sunday

Together with the city of Sejong, the Hankook Ilbo, the sister paper of The Korea Times, will host the 485th Turtle Marathon at the Sejong Lake Park on Oct. 6. The 4.4 kilometer long walkathon will start at 9:30 a.m. from the main plaza of the park. The organizer will offer hats and drinks to all participants who can also win an air purifier, a pair of running shoes, a pack of seaweed and other prizes through a lucky draw on the sidelines of the walkathon. Miss Korea 2019 and runner-ups of the beauty pageant will also participate in the event.There is no entrance fee and the walkathon is open to anyone who is interested. Those who want to participate can visit hkturtle.com and fill out a registration form.The lucky draw will be possible only among those who register through the internet. But those who show up without registration can also participate in the marathon. Grade school students can receive certification for three hours of volunteer work if they register on?1365.go.kr?and sign themselves in at the m

Oct 1, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
485th Turtle Marathon to be held on Sunday
Sports

Driven by fine dust woes, schools look to VR sports

Fourth graders at Yonggang Elementary School in Seoul practice basketball in the virtual reality sports room on the school campus, Sept. 17. Korea Times photo by Kim Se-jeongBy Kim Se-jeong Last Tuesday morning, two dozen fourth-graders at Yonggang Elementary school entered a virtual reality (VR) sports room equipped with screens, a computer and two stationary bikes.They were there to “go mountain biking,” or “play basketball.” Following VR sports teacher Hong Seong-woo's short instructions on how to manage a ball, boys started to shoot the balls ― not toward a real net but to a virtual one projected on the big screen. After a few practice shots, they began a shooting competition. While the boys were playing basketball, the girls, in the other corner of the room less than 100 square meters in size, took turns on two stationary bikes. The screen in front of them showed the route and they moved the handles around as if they were actually cycling on a mountain. Then, the boys and girls switched ― boys on the bikes and girls at the virtual shooting practice. By th

Sep 23, 2019By Kim Se-jeong
Driven by fine dust woes, schools look to VR sports
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