The two miners rescued from a collapsed mine in southeastern South Korea are quickly recovering, medical doctors said Saturday. The pair surprised the nation by miraculously walking out alive after being trapped for more than nine days in the zinc mine in the county of Bonghwa, 244 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Friday. They had … Read more
Park Jung-ha, one of the two miners who walked out of a collapsed mine Friday night after being trapped for nine days, said he never lost hope and made constant efforts to find a way out. “It’s good to be out. We spent time consoling each other in the tunnel,” the 62-year old told Yonhap … Read more
Former major league star Park Chan-ho took in a South Korean baseball championship game in Seoul on Saturday, rooting for a close friend of his managing in the series. Park, the first South Korean to play in Major League Baseball (MLB), was elementary school, middle school and high school teammates with the current Kiwoom Heroes … Read more
Riding a big inning and a surprising performance from their emergency starter, the Kiwoom Heroes defeated the SSG Landers 6-3 to draw even in the South Korean baseball championship round. The Heroes put up a five-spot in the bottom of the third, while reliever Lee Seung-ho tossed four innings of one-run ball in a spot … Read more
North Korea fired four short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) toward the Yellow Sea Saturday, the South Korean military said. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launches from Tongrim County in North Pyongyan Province between around 11:32 a.m. and 11:59 a.m. The missiles flew about 130 kilometers at an apogee of 20 km … Read more
In a crucial South Korean baseball championship game with his club’s title hopes hanging in the balance, Kiwoom Heroes left-hander Lee Seung-ho delivered the best postseason outing of his career. It didn’t matter that Lee didn’t throw enough innings to qualify for a win on Saturday, as the Heroes defeated the SSG Landers 6-3 to … Read more
Two U.S. B-1B Lancer strategic bombers staged joint drills with South Korean F-35A stealth fighter jets over the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, the last day of the allies’ Vigilant Storm exercise, according to Seoul’s defense authorities. It marked the first time that the long-range supersonic bomber has been deployed to Korea since 2017, the Joint … Read more
South Korea has confirmed another case of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a chicken farm in the southwestern region, authorities said Saturday. The latest case was from a farm raising about 155,000 chickens in Sunchang in North Jeolla Province, some 244 kilometers south of Seoul, the provincial government said. Local authorities have cordoned off the … Read more