By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- Former major league All-Star outfielder Choo Shin-soo is coming home.
Choo has signed with the new Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) club to be owned by ...
11:41 Feb. 23
(ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES throughout with league's decision to suspend season)
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean professional volleyball league announced Tuesday the ongoing ...
10:06 Feb. 23
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- A male professional volleyball player has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, becoming the first homegrown player in the league to be infected.
The KB Insurance...
08:43 Feb. 23
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- A professional volleyball player has abruptly retired after admitting to assault allegations from his school days, the latest black eye to the sport reeling...
08:24 Feb. 23
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors dominated South Korean football last year, lifting two major trophies by winning the K League 1 championship and the Korean FA Cup ti...
16:34 Feb. 22
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean football champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors said Monday they've put a temporary stop on talks with a German club to acquire former FC Barcelona youth player Pa...
14:00 Feb. 22
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- While carving out an All-Star career in his native South Korea, Kim Ha-seong hardly had to worry about his playing time.
It will be a different story thi...
09:20 Feb. 22
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- In winning South Korean baseball's ERA title last year, Kiwoom Heroes' ace Eric Jokisch threw just enough innings to qualify for that honor.
As he battle...
08:00 Feb. 21
INCHEON, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- He may have pitched for 14 seasons in his native South Korea, but left-hander Yang Hyeon-jong said Saturday he will adopt the mindset of a rookie heading into his first...
17:27 Feb. 20
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- Doug Mathis may have left South Korea, but South Korea hasn't left him.
Mathis, a pitching coach with the Texas Rangers, spent a part of the 2011 season ...
08:00 Feb. 20
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean pitcher Yang Hyeon-jong, having been invited to Texas Rangers' spring training on a minor league contract, will leave for the United States on ...
17:16 Feb. 19
GIMHAE, South Korea, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- Former major league player Larry Sutton returned to South Korea as a minor league manager in the fall of 2019, embarking on a second tour of duty after play...
10:48 Feb. 19
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- Before coming over to South Korea to continue his professional pitching career in 2021, Josh A. Smith reached out to some baseball friends with playing expe...
10:06 Feb. 19
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-min has scored his 18th goal of 2020-2021 while setting a new career high in combined goals and assists for a season.
Son o...
08:46 Feb. 19
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Yonhap) -- They may have spent only a few days together training in Seoul, but former major leaguer Alvaro Espinoza saw enough of San Diego Padres infielder Kim Ha-seo...
15:54 Feb. 18
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Yonhap) -- Asian qualifying matches for the 2022 FIFA World Cup have been postponed from March to June, an official with the national football governing body said Thursday.
An of...
15:30 Feb. 18
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Yonhap) -- A recent bullying scandal that surfaced in professional volleyball has once again brought into focus problems that have been ailing school sports in South K...
08:00 Feb. 18
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- Having recently signed a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers, veteran South Korean pitcher Yang Hyeon-jong will try to win a major league job at spring...
15:09 Feb. 17
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- Three former MVPs of South Korean baseball will be in big league spring training starting this month, with two of them looking to build on their 2020 succes...
11:03 Feb. 17
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- For baseball pitchers, it helps to have a short memory, that ability to quickly forget about bad outings and regroup for the next game.
It mostly applies...
09:41 Feb. 17