PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - South Korea's Kim Yu-jin won the Olympic gold medal in the women's taekwondo featherweight (under 57kg) division, swiftly beating Iran's Nahid Kiyanichandeh in a show of ...

The 13th Korean Ambassador International Open Taekwondo Championships 2025 began in Kathmandu on Monday, launching a five-day competition that has brought together athletes from Nepal and four ...

(Reuters) - Taekwondo athletes from North and South Korea produced a stunning demonstration in Gangwon as sporting diplomacy took center stage alongside kicking, screaming and flying planks of wood on ...

The mislabelling touched a nerve in South Korea, where conflating Korean and Japanese cultural symbols is often viewed as ...

PARIS (AP) — Panipak Wongpattanakit retired on a perfect note as she became the first Thai athlete in any sport to become a two-time Olympic champion on Wednesday. Wongpattanakit defended her Tokyo ...

PARIS (AP) — South Korea is back in force in taekwondo. After leaving the Tokyo Games without a single gold medal in the sport it invented, the East Asian nation claimed a second title in as many days ...

CAMP CASEY, South Korea – A U.S. Army sergeant won the Gold Medal during an international Taekwondo competition in South Korea. Sgt. Robert J. Errington from the 59th Chemical, Biological, ...

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South Korean prosecutors on Sunday detained a former defense minister who allegedly recommended last week’s brief but stunning martial law imposition to President Yoon Suk Yeol, making him the first ...

Officials of the South African Taekwondo Association (SATF) joined in the front yard of the Korean Cultural Center in South Africa The Korean Cultural Center in South Africa is the South Africa ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s opposition leader questioned the state of mind of President Yoon Suk Yeol and vowed to make all-out efforts to get him impeached soon, saying Friday that Yoon’s ...