news sports: Japanese teams Lee Dong-kook Premier League’s Middlesbrough soccer
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Lee Dong-kook in negotiation with Japanese teams: agent
혻 혻 SEOUL, May 15 (Yonhap) — South Korean striker Lee Dong-kook is currently talking to five different Japanese soccer teams, including Kyoto Purple Sanga, following his release from the Premier League’s Middlesbrough earlier this week, his agent said Thursday.
culture news sports: Korea's National Archery Team Training Method
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Korea’s National Archery Team Adopts New Training Method
For the past 20 years Korea has been seen as one of the top competitors in the sport of archery. And to keep this title the Korean national archery team is taking its training methods to a whole new level
The athletes are using simulation training to stay in tip-top shape for the upcoming 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. This approach allows for athletes to re-enact real situations similar to the ones they will be facing in a few months time with a manufactured audience and recorded crowd sounds. more »
news sports: Contestant Kim Ju Yeon Miss Korea
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Foreign Knuckleballer in Korea
The Sports Chosun recently did a short look ot Tim Oxspring, a foreign pitcher in the KBO who sometimes throws the mysterious knuckleball.
Park Ji-sung Makes History in Press Appearance
Korean soccer star Park Ji-sung has gone through many ups and downs since he joined Manchester United, one of the most prestigious soccer teams in the world, on July 8, 2005. But it seems that those vicissitudes were nothing more than the prelude to glory that has awaited him in his third season on the English Premiere League team.
Park represented Manchester, a team of “soccer geniuses,” at a press conference on Tuesday, ahead of a Thursday match with Italy’s AS Roma in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final. His appearance marked a new chapter in Korean soccer history — Park is the first Korean soccer player to have spoken at a press conference for the Champions League.
The press conference appearance also serves as testimony to Park’s increased status on the team. The Korean player has played in only eight Champions League matches in his last three seasons.
What’s more, Park has mastered the English language in just five years after moving to Europe. He confidently answered reporters from all over Europe in English without an interpreter. And his answers showed his abundant pride to be playing for Manchester.
Asked if he thinks the current Manchester squad is the best since he joined the team, he said, “In a couple of matches we’ve changed the team around but still got good results. We have a good squad. Players get injured and we have other strong players to come in. Yes, I think it’s the best squad.”
To another question asking if he believes that his team can win the Champions League, he answered with confidence, “We can win the league as well (as the Champions League). We can do the double.”
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First Korean F-1 Driver In The Works
With Korea’s first hosting of an F-1 event just two years off, recruitment and training to develop the first Korean F-1 racer is ongoing, although it turns out this may depend on the meaning of “Korean”.
In preparations for the first F-1 race in Korea in 2010, the possibility of a Korean F-1 driver is becoming more likely. KAVO, the Korea Auto Valley Operation, secured the rights to hold the 2010 F-1 Korea Grand Prix and recruited three candidates last year, and it appears that one of them will race.
In Malaysia, site of the second round of the F-1 World Championship, 47-year old KAVO head Jeong Yeong-jo announced, “we are considering training with the Williams team as well as driving school. Promising racers like Hwang Jin-woo are being interviewed and there will be training in Europe.”
Beginning last year KAVO evaluated the records and skills Korean racers participating in the F1’s lower-ranking F3 division and are carefully choosing the right man. Besides Hwang Jin-woo, who is currently competing in Japan, the other two top candidates are Jo Hang-woo and Choi Myeong-gil, who was adopted by a couple in the Netherlands and is the first person of Korean descent to win an F3 championship.
Mr. Jeong said, “the racers selected as candidates will receive funding to compete in overseas F3 races and the Formula BMW. Over the coming year they will race, gain experience, qualify as a test driver and compete in earnest for a world championship.”
There are currently 11 F-1 teams carrying two drivers per team, for a total of 22 drivers. By country Germany has produced the most at 5, followed by the UK with 4, and Brazil with 3. Among Asian countries Japan has produced 2 (Kazuki Nakajima and Taguma Sato) but there are no Korean or Chinese drivers. source