SEOUL– Pohang Steelers reached the semifinals of the top Asian club football tournament with a 3-0 victory over Nagoya Grampus on Sunday.Lim Sang-hyub grabbed a brace and Lee Seung-mo added another for Pohang’s convincing win in the quarterfinals of t…
SEOUL– Lee Dong-gyeong scored a wonder goal in extra time to send defending champions Ulsan Hyundai FC to the semifinals of the top Asian club football tournament on Sunday, setting up an all-K League clash with a ticket to the final at stake.Lee’s sc…
SEOUL– South Korean military football club Gimcheon Sangmu earned a promotion back to the top-flight K League 1 on Sunday, one season after falling to the second division.Forward Cho Gue-sung scored the only goal of Gimcheon’s 1-0 victory over Bucheon…
SEOUL– South Korea’s daily new COVID-19 cases fell to the 1,400s on Sunday, as health authorities plan to apply eased distancing rules for a gradual return to normal life.The country added 1,420 more COVID-19 cases, including 1,403 local infections, r…
China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, showing a capability that caught U.S. intelligence by surprise, the Financial Times reported, citing five unnamed sources.The report late on Saturday said the Chinese military launched a rock…
SEOUL– South Korea’s first vice foreign minister left for London on Sunday for talks with British officials on bilateral relations, the security situation on the Korean Peninsula and other issues of mutual interest, his office said.The weeklong trip b…
Japan’s new prime minister on Sunday said the planned mass disposal of wastewater stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant cannot be delayed, despite concerns from local residents.Speaking at his first visit to the facility since taking of…
SEOUL– The local pop culture market has suffered a heavy blow from the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, but the K-pop industry remains less affected thanks to the strongest sales of physical albums in a decade.”Noeasy,” the second full-length album by bo…