(Olympics) S. Korea earns 2 medals on final day, finishes 1 shy of record Sports August 11, 20240 South Korea capped its better-than-expected run at the Paris Olympics with two more medals on the final day of the competition Sunday. Seong Seung-min grabbed bronze in the women’s modern pentathlon and became the first Asian to reach the podium sin…
(2nd LD) (Olympics) Park Hye-jeong wins silver in women’s weightlifting Sports August 11, 20240 Park Hye-jeong captured silver in the heaviest weight class in women’s weightlifting Sunday for South Korea’s final medal of the Paris Olympics. Park finished with the total of 299 kilograms, with 131kg in the snatch and 168kg in the clean and jerk …
(2nd LD) (Olympics) Seong Seung-min captures bronze in women’s modern pentathlon Sports August 11, 20240 Seong Seung-min claimed bronze in the women’s modern pentathlon at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, becoming the first South Korean woman to grab an Olympic medal in her sport. Seong, the 2024 world champion, finished behind Michelle Gulyas of Hungary …
(Olympics) B-boy Hongten eliminated in group stage in inaugural breaking competition General August 11, 20240 Veteran B-boy Hongten was knocked out of the group stage at the inaugural Olympic breaking competition in Paris on Saturday. Hongten, whose legal name is Kim Hong-yul, finished third in Group C of the B-boys competition at La Concorde 1 in the Frenc…
(Olympics) Weightlifter dedicates silver medal to late mother General August 11, 20240 The person that Park Hye-jeong most wanted to see after winning her first Olympic medal Sunday in Paris is no longer with her. Some four months after her mother, Nam Hyun-hee, succumbed to cancer, Park captured the silver medal in the women’s +81-ki…
(LEAD) N. Korea sends some 240 trash-filled balloons toward S. Korea: JCS General August 11, 20240 North Korea has sent around 240 balloons carrying trash toward South Korea and about 10 of them landed in the South, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. As of 10 a.m., there had been no balloons detected floating midair, after North Korea launched…