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Mexico Are Killing It At The World Cup, And All Good U.S. Fans Are Forbidden From Enjoying It
The exhilarating and remarkably good Mexican national team took on South Korea today in a match that I personally, as a true Stars and Stripes-loving American patriot, was absolutely dreading....
South Korea Are Overmatched, But At Least They Have A Superstar
Four years after a disappointing showing in Brazil, South Korea had the great misfortune of being drawn into a very tough group in Russia. The Taegeuk Warriors have enviable top-end talent in Son Heung-min and Ki Sung-yueng, and if they had been drawn into the groups that their fellow Asian qualifie...
Ho Hum, Dennis Rodman Weeping On CNN Over The Personal Sacrifices He's Made To Broker Peace With North Korea
Monday night North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un joined a historic summit with Donald Trump, a sleazy failed businessman turned sleazy reality television star turned sleazy opportunistic Republican turned President of the United States, and I mean to tell you we haven’t even gotten to the truly psyche...
Korean Basketball League's New Rule Makes Some Foreign Players Too Tall To Play
David Simon, a 35-year-old Anyang KGC center, has been playing overseas for more than a decade now, but a new rule means he’ll have to find a team in another country. He’s now too tall for the Korean Basketball League. ...
NBC Apologizes for Calling Japan An "Example" To Koreans
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea, from 1910 until 1945, was characterized by executions, forced labor, systematic rape of so-called “comfort women,” and other human rights atrocities. Japan’s whitewashing of this time period in their history books today is a c...
For Those Who Want "One Korea," The Unified Hockey Team Is A Starting Place
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Even with more than two hours left before the puck was scheduled to drop between the Koreans and their heavily favored Swiss opponents, a taxicab couldn’t get anywhere near the arena. I’d assumed, and planned for, the first game featuring a joint team of players from both No...
Curling Is A Contact Sport
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North Korea And South Korea Agree To Form Joint Olympic Hockey Team
North Korea and South Korea have agreed to form a joint Olympic women’s hockey team and march together during the opening ceremonies next month in Pyeongchang, according to the Associated Press. ...
North Korea Strikes Deal To Send Athletes To Pyeongchang Olympics
North Korea and South Korea just wrapped up their first official diplomatic talks in two years, and the two sides agreed to provisions that will see the DPRK participate in their first Winter Olympics since 2010. After negotiating in the Demilitarized Zone, the countries decided to reopen a military...
Colombian Soccer Player Directs Racist Slant-Eye Gesture At South Korean Players
South Korea hosted Colombia in an international friendly earlier today. During a minor dust-up between players, Colombian midfielder Edwin Cardona made the slant-eye gesture in the faces of some South Korean players....
Dennis Rodman Is Back In North Korea For Some Reason
Former Jordan sidekick Dennis Rodman, last seen palling around with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and offering some quarter-baked thoughts about protestors, is back doing what he does best, which is wedging himself back into the spotlight in the most moronic way possible. Rodman has visited Nort...
Korean Baseball Fight!
The KBO League’s Samsung Lions and Hanwha Eagles left their benches twice and fought in Sunday’s game. A total of six players and coaches have been punished for their roles....
Those Are Really Not Equivalent
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How To Get Into The KBO, The Wildest, Most Outlandish Baseball League In The World<em></em>
The baseball season is almost upon us, but you don’t have to wait for MLB to get started. Opening day for the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) is March 31. Why should you be care? Well ... can I interest you in bat flips?...
Two Kids Barge Into Room During Expert's BBC Interview About South Korea
It’s honestly surprising that this doesn’t happen more often with remote interviews from subjects’ houses....
Look, Baseball!
I know I’m warmer than most on the World Baseball Classic, but I think it can only be a good thing that there’s actual, competitive baseball being played right now, after a long cold winter. (My enthusiasm will wane by May, when I’ll be wishing they could just skip ahead to September already. But le...
Korean Basketball League All-Stars Pull Off Elaborate Mid-Game Mannequin Challenge
The Mannequin Challenge may have been dead stateside for a couple months already, but we’ll afford some slack to the guys in the Korean Basketball League’s All-Star Game who coordinated and executed a big one in the middle of the game:...
¡Los Cubs Son Campeones! The Final Out Of The World Series, As Called By Announcers Around The Globe [Update]
The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions after a wait of 108 years, and one very tense extra inning. Here’s how the final out of tonight’s Game 7 sounded on TV and radio around the globe, starting up top with Chicago’s flagship radio broadcaster WSCR. ...
Rajai Davis Homers To Tie Up Game 7; Here's How It Sounded On Russian and Korean TV
The Indians’ shocking eighth-inning comeback tied things up against the Cubs, thanks to Rajai Davis homering off Aroldis Chapman. Up top is how it sounded on Korean broadcaster MBC Sports; below is how it sounded on Russian TV. ...
Teenaged Korean Goalkeeper Is God-Awful At Pretending To Try To Stop This Goal
Thanks to the internet’s first helpful Youtube commenter, we know that this North Korean youth team was most likely actively trying to lose to avoid playing a better team in the knockout round of the Asian Federation’s U-16 Championship. So we can say pretty definitively that this Korean keeper was ...