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    Korea rallies past Czechia 2-1 for opening victory

    ZAPOPAN, Mexico — Korea defeated Czechia 2-1 to open their 2026 FIFA World Cup in Mexico on Thursday, taking a big step toward a place in the knockout stage. Substitute Oh Hyeon-gyu netted the go-ahead goal in the 80th minute at Estadio Guadalajara in Zapopan, near Guadalajara in western Mexico, after the teams had traded a goal apiece earlier in the second half following a goalless opening half. Ladislav Krejci headed in the match's first goal for Czechia in the 59th minute before Hwang In-beom scored the equalizer eight minutes later. Hwang then assisted Oh's goal, which came a couple of minutes after a would-be Czechia goal was disallowed on an offside. This was the fourth time that Korea won their first match of a World Cup, following 2002, 2006 and 2010. Korea progressed to the knockout phase in 2002 and 2010. Korea's next Group A match will be against Mexico, one of the tournament's three co-host countries, at 7 p.m. next Thursday at Estadio Guadalajara. It will be 10 a.m. next Friday in Korea. Mexico defeated South Africa 2-0 in Mexico City in the tournament opener earlier Thursda

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    Korea rallies past Czechia 2-1 for opening victory
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    World Cup opener sees Son Heung-min fever sweep Mexico stadium

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    Daytime World Cup fever grips Seoul for 1st time in 24 years

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Horse festival introduces audience to equine industry

Equestrians compete during the 2nd Korea Equestrian Festival at Ilsan Lake Park in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, on Sunday. The three-day festival featured a number of competitions, participatory events and an introduction to the horse industry in Korea, with some 210,000 people visiting the park during the event. / Courtesy of the Korea Equestrian FestivalBy Nam Hyun-wooGOYANG, Gyeonggi Province ― The first images most Koreans associate with horse riding is probably that it is either a sport for the wealthy or gamblers.For equine industry insiders, this is something they have been trying to shed for a long time.Their latest effort was reflected in the 2nd Korea Equestrian Festival (KEF) held last weekend. Unlike the previous KEF or other types of equestrian events that invited audiences to existing equestrian parks, this year’s three-day event came to Ilsan Lake Park in the middle of the city of Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, so that they could bring the equine industry closer to the general public.Though people riding horses surrounded by tall buildings was an unusual scen

Oct 27, 2015
Horse festival introduces audience to equine industry
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Partnership for Ironman

Newly appointed Korea Ironman Organizing Committee Chairman Park Byung-hoon, center, poses with Profs. Hong Jung-gi, right, and Lee Dae-taek of Kookmin University after signing a partnership at the university in Seoul, Monday. The deal aims to boost athletes’ performance s of Ironman race./ Courtesy of Emerson K Partners

Oct 27, 2015
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IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME

Plan each stroke in pre-shot routineGood players all have a pre-shot routine that repeats: They do the same things in the same sequence for every shot.The purpose of the pre-shot routine is twofold:(1) It insulates you from outside interference such as gusting wind, annoying opponents, and cart girls who pop up out of nowhere just as you’re ready to hit; and (2) the routine calms your mind so you can focus on the task at hand, i.e., sendingthe ball to the target. To begin, imagine a line drawn between you and your golf ball. Call it the C-line, named for the commitment you’re going to make before you cross it and step to your ball.The pre-shot routine starts with you behind the C-line, as former tour pro Brian Watts is doing in the left-hand photo below. He’s gathering data he needs to make a plan.Every target you hunt sends out information as to its location, and all you have to do is be open, like a TV satellite dish, to receiving that data.Your brain needs thi

Oct 27, 2015
IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME
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Samsung rallies to take opening game over Doosan in Korean Series

The Samsung Lions celebrate their scoring two runs on the Doosan Bears’ error in the seventh inning of their Korean Series game 1 at Daegu Baseball Stadium, Monday. The Lions clinched the first game of the best-of-seven championship series of the Korea Baseball Organization League after beating the Bears 9-8. / YonhapThe Samsung Lions rallied to defeat the Doosan Bears 9-8 at home to take the opening game of the Korean Series on Monday.The Lions came back from a 5-0 deficit to move a step closer to their fifth straight Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) championship at Daegu Stadium in Daegu, the Lions' home about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul.Yamaico Navarro, the 2014 Korean Series MVP for Samsung, hit a three-run shot as part of the five-run seventh, and the Lions capitalized on Doosan's shaky relief pitching and defense to stage the impressive comeback.There have been 32 Korean Series so far, and the winner of the opening game has gone on to win the championship 24 times.Incidentally, the Lions lost the opening games in each of the past two years but bounced back to take

Oct 26, 2015
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Good to go: the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation

World Taekwondo Federation President Choue Chung-won gives a keynote speech during the InternationalSport Cooperation Conference 2015 at The Plaza hotel in central Seoul, Monday./ Courtesy of World Taekwondo FederationThe following is an abstract of World Taekwondo Federation President Choue Chung-won’s keynote speech on the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation at the International Sport Cooperation Conference 2015 on Monday in Seoul. ― ED.Respected guests; colleagues; and friends:It is a great honor for me to be here to deliver a keynote speech. All of us here want peace. But the sad fact is that peace is not with us.How can we, as sports officials, assist those who are victims of conflicts? This is what I want to present about today.As you may know, under the leadership of President Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee has laid out its “Olympic Agenda 2020.”Among other things, this calls for us ― the International Federations ― to fulfill our social responsibility.The World Taekwondo Federation is doing exactly that.I recently had the honor

Oct 26, 2015
Good to go: the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation
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Conference focuses on sports' contribution

Participants of the International Sport Cooperation Conference 2015 listen to World Taekwondo Federation President Choue Chung-won’s keynote speech at The Plaza hotel in central Seoul, Monday. / Courtesy of World Taekwondo FederationBy Nam Hyun-wooFigures from sports and academic fields offered ways for sports to contribute to a better world during an international conference co-hosted by the International Sport Cooperation Center of Korea (ISC) and the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), Monday.The conference, dubbed the International Sport Cooperation Conference 2015, was held at The Plaza Hotel in central Seoul, and some 250 attendees, including WTF President Choue Chung-won, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Korea Representative Dirk Hebecker and Olympafrica Foundation CEO Thierno Alassane Diack, shared their vision and opinions on advocating global development through sport.  The conference came amid the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently established an emergency fund of $2 million to help refuge

Oct 26, 2015By Nam Hyun-woo
Conference focuses on sports' contribution
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UNHCR Korea head values taekwondo's role

Dirk HebeckerBy Nam Hyun-wooUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Korea Representative Dirk Hebecker said Monday he highly appreciates taekwondo’s role in helping refugees.In an interview with The Korea Times on the sidelines of the International Sport Cooperation Conference 2015 at The Plaza Hotel in Seoul, the German welcomed the World Taekwondo Federation’s initiative for the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation, in which taekwondo instructors are deployed to refugee camps worldwide to teach the sport, Olympism and related values.“I think it is a wonderful initiative,” said Hebecker. “It will not be a one-time initiative, but the beginning of a long relationship between the humanitarian foundation and refugee situations throughout the world,” adding the UNHCR is ready to work with the fund.“Taekwondo is easy to popularize and undertake. So the World Taekwondo Federation’s initiative to help refugees is a fruitful new brotherhood to spread hope to refugees,” Hebecker said.He stressed bringing change to the current r

Oct 26, 2015By Nam Hyun-woo
UNHCR Korea head values taekwondo's role
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453rd Turtle Marathon

Hankook Ilbo President Lee Jong-seung, fourth from left in the front row, poses with Kim Keun-ho, fifth from left, chairman of the Korea Native Chicken Association, and other participants of the 453rd Turtle Marathon at Baekbeom Square in Namsan Park, central Seoul, Saturday. The event, co-hosted by the Hankook Ilbo, a sister paper of The Korea Times, has drawn more than 1.2 million participantssince 1978. / Korea Times photo by Shin Sang-soon

Oct 25, 2015
Sports

It's Samsung vs. Doosan in Korean Series

Players and managers competing at the Korean Series, the final round of postseason playoffs of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) pose during a pre-game media day event at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Design Center, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, Seoul. From left are Doosan Bears players Yoo Hee-kwan, Kim Hyun-soo and manager Kim Tae-hyung, the Samsung Lions manager Ryu Joong-il and players Koo Ja-wook and Park Suk-min. The two clubs will play Game 1 of the Korean Series at the Lions’ Daegu Baseball Stadium at 6:30 p.m. today. / YonhapBy Baek Byung-yeulThis year’s Korean Series, the final round of postseason playoffs of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) will be between the reigning champion Samsung Lions and the Doosan Bears.In a best-of-five second round playoff, the Bears secured a 3-2 series triumph to advance to the final round, defeating the NC Dinos 6-4 in Game 5, Saturday.At the Dinos’ home park Masan Baseball Park in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, the Dinos got things started early scoring first in the bottom first. With right fielder Na Sung-bum on

Oct 25, 2015
Sports

Coach Choi shows how it's done at U-17 World Cup

Oh Se-hun, left, celebrates with teammate Park Myeong-su after scoring in his team’s 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup Group B match against Guinea in Chile, Oct. 20. / YonhapBy John DuerdenIt was almost too good to be true. South Korea’s Under 17 team has made the second round of the World Cup with a group game still remaining. This has never happened to any Korean national team ― of any age group ― before.A group with Brazil, England and Guinea? It did not sound easy, but these young Taegeuk Warriors have made it look exactly that.Beating Brazil was one thing, a 1-0 win in the opening game, but outplaying the South Americans was something else. It was the perfect way to spend a Sunday morning. The last time a Korean national team went to that continent, in June 2014, it returned home with one point and the performances were even worse than that sorry statistic suggested.Yet here was a Korean team, fearless and fluent, and looking more like Brazil than Brazil. People caution about getting carried away, but if you cannot get carried away after such a display then you sho

Oct 25, 2015
Coach Choi shows how it's done at U-17 World Cup
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