SPORTS
[Yonhap News Photo] SEOUL -- South Korea on Friday appointed former Portugal boss Paulo Bento as the new head coach for the men's national football team. Kim Pan-gon, who heads the national team coach appointment committee at the Korea Football Association (KFA), said that Bento will lead South Korea through the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The 49-year-old Portuguese will succeed Shin Tae-yong for the top South Korean football coaching job. Bento started his coaching career wi
[Yonhap Photo] SEOUL -- Kenyan-born marathoner Wilson Loyanae Erupe has acquired South Korean citizenship, capping off a journey that began more than three years ago. Oh Chang-seok, a former men's national marathon coach who now acts as an agent for Erupe, said the 29-year-old athlete was granted citizenship by the justice ministry on Tuesday. He failed in his previous bid in April 2016. But he has been competing for a South Korean municipal government since June 2015. Accord
[Yonhap Photo] SEOUL -- Hyundai Motor Co. signed sponsorship deals with Italian Serie A football club AS Roma and German Bundesliga football club Hertha BSC Berlin on Tuesday as part of its extended sports marketing efforts aimed at promoting the brand in Europe. With the addition of AS Roma and Hertha BSC on its sports sponsorship programs, South Korea's No. 1 carmaker has become a global automotive partner of five soccer teams in the same number of European countries, Hyundai
[EPA / Yonhap] SEOUL -- Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo apologized for canceling his trip South Korea due to his tight schedule. The 33-year-old was to visit Seoul next week to promote SIXPAD, a muscle training gear and meet a promising youth footballer. In a statement released Friday by KOREA TECH, a South Korean vendor for SIXPAD, Ronaldo expressed sorry for not being able to visit South Korea, saying he wishes to meet fans as soon as possible. The football hero lef
[Kim Yuna's Instagram] SEOUL -- Former Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yuna and fans expressed deep grief over the death of Kazakh figure skater Denis Yurievich Ten, an Olympic bronze medalist who died Thursday at 25 after being stabbed by robbers in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Kazakh media reported that Ten was attacked while trying to stop two robbers from stealing his car mirrors and suffered a significant blood loss. Ten won a bronze medal in the men's singles at the 2014 S
