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- S. Korean Women's Curling Team Defeats Canada 8-6
- The South Korean women's curling team has defeated top-ranked Canada in the preliminary round at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The four-member Korean team led by skip Kim Eun-jung on Thursday beat Canada 8-6 in the women's round robin session 2 at Gangneung Curling Center. Canada, a curling powerhouse which won the World Women's Curling Championship last year, is considered the strongest team at the Olympics. Ten teams will compete in the preliminary round and the top four teams will advance to the semifinals. South Korea will face Japan at 8:05 p.m. Thursday.
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2018-02-15
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- Unified Korean Women's Ice Hockey Team Loses to Japan 4-1
- The unified Korean women’s ice hockey team has lost to Japan 4-1 in their final collaboration at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. During the final Group B preliminary round matchup at the Kwandong Hockey Center in Gangneung on Wednesday, Randi Heesoo Greeffin managed to score a goal against the ninth-ranked Japanese team and helped the Korean team avoid a third consecutive shutout loss. Four North Koreans played alongside 18 South Koreans during the game that packed the stands. Although the unified Korean team has failed to advance to the playoffs, it will stay on to compete in classification games to determine fifth to eighth place, which begin on Sunday.
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2018-02-14
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- China Takes Lead in Pairs Figure Skating
- China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong took the lead in the pair’s figure skating event at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Wednesday following the completion of the short program. Sui and Han put on a strong performance at Gangneung Ice Arena to earn a score of 82-point-39 and top the rankings ahead of the second-placed Olympic Athletes from Russia team. South Korea's team of Kim Kyu-eun and Kam Kang-chan did not progress to the free program after they finished last out of the 22 competing teams. Only the top 16 teams advance to Thursday’s free program. However, the North Korean duo of Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik did qualify for the next stage of the competition as they achieved a personal best score of 69-point-40 points to place eleventh. The skaters were the only North Koreans to qualify for the PyeongChang Games on merit, with the other athletes given wildcard entries to the competition.
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2018-02-14
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- Shaun White Claims Third Olympic Halfpipe Gold at PyeongChang
- American Shaun White won the men’s snowboarding halfpipe event at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Wednesday with a superb final run. White was in second place going into the final run at Phoenix Snow Park but his score of 97-point-75 saw him top the rankings and pick up his third Olympic gold medal in the event. Japanese teenager Ayumu Hirano won the silver medal, while Australia’s Scotty James claimed the bronze. With the win, White became the first snowboarder to claim three Olympic titles following his victories at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Games. Team USA has dominated the snowboarding competitions at the PyeongChang Games, with American boarders winning all four of the events so far.
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2018-02-14
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- S. Korean Men’s Curling Team Suffer Defeat in Opening Match
- The South Korean men’s curling team was defeated by the U.S. in their opening match at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Wednesday morning. The Korean team, led by Kim Chang-min, lost 11-7 to a strong American side at the Gangneung Curling Centre. The match started evenly, with the teams tied at 2-2 after the first two ends, but the U.S. soon took control of the match and ended up comfortable winners. In the morning session’s other matches, Sweden beat Denmark 9-5 and Canada defeated Italy 5-3. In the closest match of the day, Great Britain won 6-5 against Switzerland. South Korea will be hoping to bounce back from their defeat when they play Sweden on Wednesday evening.
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2018-02-14
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- S. Korea Approves Covering 2.86 Bln Won Costs of N. Korea's Olympic Participation
- The government approved spending two-point-86 billion won of state funds to cover the costs of North Korea's participation in the Winter Olympics. The Unification Ministry said that the inter-Korean exchange and cooperation council approved the matter on Wednesday in a meeting chaired by Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon. With the council's approval, the government will use money from the Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund to cover expenses for the North's cheering squad, art troupe and taekwondo demonstration team during their stay in South Korea. The government also decided late last month to spend 148 million won from the fund to cover the costs for a joint government support team in relation to the North's Olympic participation. Costs for the North's participation in the PyeongChang Paralympics will be deliberated later.
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2018-02-14
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- S. Korea's Kim Min-seok Wins Asia's First Medal in Men's 1,500 Meter Speed Skating
- South Korea's Kim Min-seok has won the bronze medal in the men's one-thousand-500 meter speed skating event. In the final at the ice rink in Gangneung on Tuesday night, the South Korean clocked in at one-minute 44-point-93 seconds after the Netherlands' Kjeld Nuis and his compatriot Patrick Roest came in first and second at one-minute 44-point-01 seconds and one-minute-44-point-86 seconds respectively. This is the first time an Asian has won a medal in the men's one-thousand-500 meter speed skating event.
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2018-02-13
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- Italian Short Track Skater Arianna Fontana Wins Women's 500 Meter Short Track Speed Skating Gold
- Italian short track skater Arianna Fontana has won the gold medal in the women's 500 meter event at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. In the final at the ice rink in Gangneung on Tuesday night, the 27-year old clocked in at 42 point-six-three-five seconds. South Korean short track skater Choi Min-jeong was disqualified on review for a push after the crowd thought she had won the silver medal. Because of Choi's disqualification, Yara Van Kerkhof of the Netherlands ended up with the silver and Kim Boutin got the bronze.
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2018-02-13
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- Seoul Updates Tokyo on Inter-Korean Dealings
- A senior South Korean official has met with the Japanese ambassador to Seoul to explain North Korea’s participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics and the recent visit to the South by a high-ranking delegation from the North. According to the Unification Ministry, Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung said during his meeting with Yasumasa Nagamine that the South Korean government will remain calm and cool-headed despite the recent thaw in inter-Korean relations. He added South Korea will work with the international community for smoother inter-Korean ties and for a peaceful solution to the North Korean nuclear issue. The two sides also assessed that Seoul and Tokyo are maintaining close cooperation on North Korea and agreed to continue to do so. Chun plans to meet with the Chinese ambassador to Seoul on Wednesday.
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2018-02-13
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- Chinese Vice Premier to Attend PyeongChang Olympic Closing Ceremony
- Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that China’s vice premier will visit South Korea later this month to attend the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Noh Kyu-duk said in a regular media briefing that Liu Yandong, who is also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, will make a three-day visit to South Korea beginning February 24th as a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to Noh, Liu will attend the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Games slated for February 25th to support the Chinese athletes that competed in the games along with their coaches and assisting staff. Noting it is rare for China to send a special presidential envoy for both the opening and closing ceremonies of a Winter Olympics, Noh said Seoul assesses Beijing’s high interest in their bilateral relationship and its support for the success of the PyeongChang Games. Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee member Han Zheng also visited the South last week as a special envoy of Xi and attended the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Games last Friday.
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2018-02-13
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