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    Team Korea travel to site of Group A finale

    MONTERREY, Mexico — Korea arrived at the site of their final group stage match of the ongoing FIFA World Cup in northeastern Mexico on Sunday. Korean players and their staff checked into their hotel in Monterrey, greeted by dozens of fans at the entrance. Fans yelled players' names as they entered the hotel, with captain Son Heung-min drawing the loudest cheers. The Taegeuk Warriors had been training near Guadalajara, south of Monterrey, for the past two-plus weeks, as they played their first two Group A matches there. Korea opened the competition with a 2-1 win over Czechia on June 11 but then lost to the home team Mexico 1-0 last Thursday. Mexico have already clinched the top spot in Group A with six points. Korea are in second place with three points, and they can join Mexico in the round of 32 with a win or a draw against South Africa at 7 p.m. Wednesday (local time) at Estadio Monterrey, or 10 a.m. Thursday (Korean time). Korea may also sneak into the knockouts as one of the eight best third-place teams, if they lose to South Africa, but Mexico defeat or have a draw against Czechia

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    Team Korea travel to site of Group A finale
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Rio 2016: Poor ticket sales leave big gaps in stands

/Courtesy of TwitterBy Lee Han-sooWith the Rio Olympics already criticized over poor housing for athletes, terror threats and Brazil’s political crisis, a new problem has emerged sluggish tickets sales.Masses of empty seats at events have been blamed on the Zika virus, rising crime and other worries. And the problem is strikingly evident, with TV pictures revealing the extent of it, even at popular events.For less-popular events ― such as rugby, hockey and equestrian ― ticket sales are so low that the Rio Olympic committee gave away about 280,000 to underprivileged children to fill in the seats.The problem has become so deep that Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, the world record holder in the men’s 100m and 200m sprints, posted a video encouraging fans to buy tickets to come and cheer for him.The gaps in the stands are being blamed on factors ranging from inaccessible venues and lengthy security checks, to fears of Zika and Brazil’s recession.Usain Bolt's video can be seen here 

Aug 11, 2016
Rio 2016: Poor ticket sales leave big gaps in stands
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Shooter Jin wins record 3rd straight gold

South Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh celebrates after winning a gold medal in the men’s 50m pistol at the Olympic Shooting Centre in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday. With the gold, Jin became the world’s first shooter to win a third consecutive gold medal in a single shooting event. / YonhapMen's football team reaches quarterfinalsBy Baek Byung-yeulSouth Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh, 36, won the gold medal in the men’s 50m pistol, Wednesday, becoming the world’s first shooter to win a third consecutive gold medal in a single shooting event.At the Olympic Shooting Centre, Jin shot a score of 193.7 in the final. Hoang Xuan Vinh of Vietnam took silver with 191.3 and Kim Song-guk of North Korea took bronze with 172.8.The gold was the sharpshooter’s sixth Olympic medal, including four gold and two silver, tying him with former archer Kim Soo-nyung who brought the most Olympic medals to South Korea with six (four gold, one silver and one bronze).Jin is now the first South Korean athlete to win gold in three straight Olympics following the 50m pistol in 2008 and 2012 and 1

Aug 11, 2016
Shooter Jin wins record 3rd straight gold
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Chinese suppliers dominate Rio

A traveler waits inside a wagon of the new Metro line number 4 in Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 2. The newMetro Line was opened on Aug. 1, but will only be available to Rio 2016 Olympic Games accreditedpeople and ticket holders. / EPA-YonhapBy Choi Ha-youngChinese suppliers are dominating the 2016 Rio Olympics.Chinese company Nuctech got a big deal to supply 260 pieces of security equipment including X-ray scanners and sensors for explosives. The company won the contract based on its proven experience in various international sports competitions. The Rio Games organizers bought the Chinese security apparatus for the four main competition zones, Barra, Deodoro, Maracana and Copacabana.“Nuctech won the bid in April,” the company’s website says. “The Brazilian Ministry of Justice signed another procurement contract with Nuctech in July for the X-ray systems which will be used in the Rio Olympics.” The equipment, which will be used during the upcoming Paralympics as well, will be used in correctional facilities in Rio after the Olympics, the company said.Another secu

Aug 11, 2016
Chinese suppliers dominate Rio
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Rio 2016: Dutch athlete kicked out for drinking

Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been sent home from the Olympics for drinking on Saturday night. /TwitterBy Choi Ha-youngThe Netherlands’ “Lord of the Rings,” Yuri van Gelder, has been sent home from the Olympics for drinking on Saturday night after earning a spot in the still rings final.“It was a very difficult decision,” Dutch team chef de mission Mauris Hendriks said. “It’s terrible for Yuri but this kind of behavior is unacceptable.” Gelder, 33, admitted drinking alcohol, which is a violation of the Dutch team’s rules. He left Rio Monday. The Dutch Olympic Committee was strict in expelling the former world and triple European champion. The committee said it “had no other choice but to put him on the flight home, although it’s a big loss for the team.” The athlete hired a lawyer to fight the authority’s decision. The gymnast was embroiled in a drug-abuse scandal in 2009 after testing positive to cocaine. He could not join the Dutch national team at the 2012 London Games because of the scandal.

Aug 11, 2016
Rio 2016: Dutch athlete kicked out for drinking
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Fencer's 'I can do it' spirit inspires young South Koreans

By Park Jae-hyukPark Sang-young celebrates on the podium after winning the gold medal in a men’s individual epee final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday. / AP-YonhapSouth Korean fencer Park Sang-young staged a dramatic victory in winning the country’s first-ever gold medal in the men’s individual epee at the Rio Olympics, Tuesday.At Carioca Arena 3 in Rio, Park defeated world No. 3 Geza Imre of Hungry 15-14 and clinched South Korea’s third gold medal.When Park was losing against the Hungarian fencer by 10-14, as the South Koreans kept on cheering they noticed Park mumbling some words as if he was chanting a spell on himself.Although the audiences could not hear his words, Koreans could easily read his lips and catch the words, “I can do it.”The 20-year-old, who was the youngest competitor in the event, won the gold medal in a come-from-behind victory by scoring five consecutive points.Imre said after the competition, “I could not do anything during the last seconds of the bout.”At the moment of Park’s

Aug 11, 2016By Park Jae-hyuk
Fencer's 'I can do it' spirit inspires young South Koreans
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Korean swimming sinks into dark ages

Park Tae-hwan leaves the stadium after finishing the men’s 100-meter freestyle heat of the swimming competition at the 31st Summer Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday. / YonhapBy Nam Hyun-wooSouth Korea has failed to send a single countryman to the Rio Olympics finals, sinking back to its dark ages. The plunge came as the country’s swimming community was solely depending on its star Park Tae-hwan to relive his glory.As of Wednesday, the country’s swimming team has wrapped up its Rio campaign, with Back Su-yeon finishing women’s 200-meter breaststroke in 2:32.79, an eighth place record in heat 2.With Park giving up his 1,500-meter freestyle race scheduled on Friday, eight South Koreans at Rio Games ended their outing without making it into a final.South Korea has produced finalists in swimming in every Olympics since the 2004 Athens Games. In 2004, Nam Yoo-sun became the first South Korean Olympic swimming finalist, advancing to women’s 400-meter individual medley final, and clocked 4:50.35, a seventh place record.The

Aug 11, 2016
Korean swimming sinks into dark ages
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'Special Kwon' shoots Korea into last eight

Kwon Chang-hoon celebrates scoring his team’s first goal during a group C match of the men’s Olympic football tournament between South Korea and Mexico at the National Stadium in Brasilia, Wednesday. / AP-YonhapBy John DuerdenSouth Korea not only progressed to the quarterfinal of the 2016 Rio Olympics on Wednesday but the 1-0 win over Mexico in Salvador, courtesy of a spectacular strike from Kwon Chang-hoon, meant that the team won its group.Next comes a tie against Honduras in Belo Horizonte on Sunday morning, but first it is necessary to look back and wonder just how Shin Tae-yong’s men defeated the 2012 gold medal winner.Going into the game, Korea needed just a point to progress while Mexico needed victory to be sure. It was set up for a tense 90 minutes and that is exactly what happened.After the 3-3 tie with Germany three days earlier, coach Shin had talked of the need to shore up the defense. A clean sheet suggests that he was successful but it was more to do with Mexico’s inability to convert one of its 22 chances (Korea managed just five) into goals.At

Aug 11, 2016
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Rio 2016: NK shooter fires up on unification of two Koreas

South Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh, right, hugs North Korean shooter Kim Song-guk after winning the gold medal in the men’s 50 meter pistol at the Olympic Shooting Center in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday. / Joint press corpsBy Park Jae-hyukNorth Korean shooter Kim Song-guk mentioned unification of the two Koreas after he won the bronze medal in the men’s 50 meter pistol at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Wednesday.At a press conference at the Olympic Shooting Center, Kim sat beside South Korea’s Jin Jong-oh, who won the event, and said: “If the two (Koreas) become one, we could have one bigger medal. If the gold and the bronze came from one Korea, it could be a much bigger one.”It is the first time a North Korean athlete has implied unification of Korea at the Rio Olympics. They have rarely commented on the divided peninsula at international sports events.Kim’s words surprised South Koreans because U.S.-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on August 5 that North Korean authorities had banned people singing “Our Wish is Unification,” ci

Aug 11, 2016By Park Jae-hyuk
Rio 2016: NK shooter fires up on unification of two Koreas
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Various translation devices to assist PyeongChang Olympics athletes

Major South Korean tech firms have recently rolled out a number of automated translation applications for Korean and major foreign languages, industry officials and analysts said Thursday.Co-developed by local software firm Hancom Interfree Inc., and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), "Genie Talk" is capable of translating Korean, Japanese, English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Arabic.The app will be available to athletes during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games, they said, allowing athletes and sports officials to communicate freely with each other.The mobile app is compatible with both Apple Inc.'s iPhones and Samsung Electronics' Android-based mobile devices.The app can also translate speech, copied letters and even sentences or words from an image.Hancom said Genie Talk can recognize 270,000 Korean words and 65,000 English words. Earlier this week, the country's largest Internet portal Naver Corp. launched a new automated translation app in four languages -- Korean, Japanese, Chinese and English.The app, which can opera

Aug 11, 2016
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N. Korea's No. 2 man leaves Rio

North Korea's No. 2 man has left Rio de Janeiro, the host city of the 31st Summer Olympic Games, after meeting with officials and cheering on North Korean athletes.Choe Ryong-hae, the vice chairman of North Korea's State Affairs Commission, took a departing flight at Galeao International Airport on Wednesday night. He arrived in Rio last Thursday after leaving Pyongyang on July 30. He flew through China and Cuba, and arrived in Sao Paulo before landing in Rio.Sources following Choe in Rio previously said the high-ranking North Korean official is scheduled to check out of a Rio hotel Thursday, but apparently he decided to return to his country earlier.During his one-week stay in Brazil, Choe attended the International Olympic Committee (IOC) gala dinner and the opening ceremony of the Rio Games. He also toured the Christ the Redeemer statue on Corcovado Mountain, and visited the weightlifting, archery, table tennis and diving venues to cheer on North Korean athletes.North Korea has won two silver and two bronze medals so far at the Rio Games.Choe's visit to Rio has been seen as a move

Aug 11, 2016
N. Korea's No. 2 man leaves Rio
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