A sellout home crowd in Yeosu, on South Korea's southern coast, watched An Se-young become the first badminton player to win 11 titles in two straight seasons on Sunday. The world No. 1 beat Japan's Yamaguchi Akane in the women's singles final of the Korea Open. The victory was her 55th in a row. She has won 71 of 72 matches this year, a win rate of 98.6 percent, and has not lost since China's Wang Zhiyi beat her in the All England Open f

This year's Asian Para Games will kick off in Nagoya, Japan this weekend, bringing together athletes from across Asia for a week of competition showcasing athletic excellence while promoting diversity and inclusion. The seven-day sporting event will begin with an opening ceremony at 6 p.m. at the multipurpose Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture and run through Oct. 24. The main theme of the ceremony is "WABI," which stands for

SEOUL, October 13 (AJP) -Scalpers found to be habitually or commercially resell tickets to Korean baseball postseason games at inflated prices face fines of up to 10 million won ($7,500) or up to one year in prison, police warned Tuesday ahead of the postseason’s Oct. 14 opening. The police will launch the crackdown with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the KBO will cover postseason venues in Seoul, Daegu, Gwangju and Suwon. Plainclothes officers and patrol team

Takuya Enomoto knows the Asian Games are taking place in his country. He checks the results every day. Watching them is another matter. “I don't really have the time,” said Enomoto, a 33-year-old pharmacist in Japan. “It's not like the Olympics, where there's a lot of hype.” Busy with work, he rarely goes out of his way to watch an event live. Instead, he opens Yahoo once a day to check the scores. “That

South Korea will face Viet Nam in a quarterfinal match in men's football later this week at the Asian Games in Japan after defeating Saudi Arabia 2-0 on Tuesday. At the match at Nagoya City Mizuho Park Rugby Field in Nagoya, South Korea struggled to create chances under Saudi Arabia's strong pressure in the first half at Nagoya City Mizuho Park Rugby Field in Nagoya, managing its first shot in the 22nd minute before generating a few more opportuni

SEOUL, September 22 (AJP) -Police dropped a breach-of-trust allegation concerning former South Korean national football coach Hong Myung-bo’s salary while referring former Korea Football Association chief Chung Mong-gyu to prosecutors over alleged interference in Hong’s appointment. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said Tuesday it had referred Chung, former technical director Lee Lim-saeng and former full-time vice president Kim Jung-bae to the Seoul Central Distric

With this year's Asian Games in Japan heating up since its opening last Saturday, South Korean athletes are looking to add to their medal haul on Tuesday, with baseball, football, fencing and swimming among the day's highlights. South Korean baseballers, led by manager Ryu Ji-hyun, will face Hong Kong at 6:30 p.m. at Toyohashi Municipal Baseball Stadium in Aichi. South Korea defeated Chinese Taipei 5-0 in its opener the previous day, powered by

SEOUL, September 21 (AJP) -South Korea reclaimed the Asian Games men's basketball title after a 12-year wait, beating host Japan with a roster built without a naturalized player and offering an early measure of a new generation that has had to compensate for its lack of size with shooting, mobility and depth. South Korea defeated Japan 67-57 in Sunday's final at Aichi International Arena in Nagoya, completing an unbeaten tournament and winning its fifth Asian Games men'

South Korean athletes are set to begin their gold-medal hunt this weekend as the quadrennial Asian Games kick off with an opening ceremony in Nagoya, Japan on Saturday. South Korea is aiming for 40 to 45 gold medals to finish third overall, with early medal races coming in disciplines like wushu, modern pentathlon, shooting and swimming. The first chance for a gold medal comes Sunday morning in wushu, a martial art often called kung fu, when Lee Yong-h