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151 storiesSouth Korea's Asian Games football gold overshadowed by military service row
South Korea's under-23 team beat Japan 1-0 in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Oct. 3 to win a fourth consecutive Asian Games men's football gold, with Eom Ji-sung scoring. The win was followed by a controversy over players' remarks on the mili…
New York stocks close higher; S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs
New York's main stock indices closed higher, with Kukmin Ilbo reporting SpaceX up 7.62% and Asia Economy noting the rise came even as the 10-year US Treasury yield renewed a high. In the following US session, Chosun Ilbo reported the S&P 50…
Son sets South Korea scoring record as Korea beat Uzbekistan 2-0
South Korea beat Uzbekistan 2-0 in a friendly at Yongin Mir Stadium on Oct 6. Son Heung-min scored a first-half free kick for his 59th international goal, a record for a Korean men's player, and Oh Se-hun added a second-half header. The win…
Court suspends Korea Exchange delisting decisions over market-cap rules
A Seoul court on Oct 2 granted injunctions suspending the Korea Exchange's delisting decisions against KOSPI-listed Joo Yeon Tech and KOSDAQ-listed KM Pharma. The court questioned the rule requiring a company to stay above the market-cap th…
Nvidia sets second straight record close; Korean AI supply chain shares rally
Nvidia closed 2.1% higher at $238.90 on October 5 in New York, a second consecutive record close, lifting its market capitalisation to about $5.76 trillion and putting the first $6 trillion valuation within reach. Korean outlets also report…
LG ends eight-game skid with 6-1 win, pulls level with KIA for third
The LG Twins beat the NC Dinos 6-1 at Seoul's Jamsil Stadium on Oct. 6, ending an eight-game losing streak with three home runs. Third-placed KIA lost to Samsung the same day, leaving LG and KIA level on winning percentage in the race for t…
Nasdaq closes at record high as AI stocks rally despite rising Treasury yields
US stocks rose on October 5 local time, with the Nasdaq Composite closing at a record high as technology and AI-related shares gained despite rising Treasury yields. Yonhap reported the Dow rose 0.18% to 51,267.90 and the S&P 500 gained 0.6…
White Sox edge Guardians 4-3 in ALDS Game 2, one win from ALCS
The Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-3 at Progressive Field in Cleveland to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five American League Division Series. Braeden Montgomery's two-run double turned a one-run deficit into a 3-2 lead an…
KB Insurance Stars appoint former national team coach Isanaye Ramirez
KB손해보험 스타즈 announced on Oct 5 that it has appointed Isanaye Ramirez, until recently head coach of South Korea's men's national volleyball team, as its new head coach. The club said Ramirez's national team term ended on Oct 4 and that he sig…
Korean judo team misses Dubai flight en route to world championships
Korea's national judo team missed a connecting flight in Dubai on Oct. 4 while traveling to the IJF World Championships in Azerbaijan, with the team reportedly failing to allow for transfer time and eating instead, Yonhap reported. The epis…
Son Heung-min passes Cha Bum-kun with 59th goal, South Korea beat Uzbekistan 2-0
Son Heung-min scored his 59th international goal from a free kick in South Korea’s friendly against Uzbekistan at Yongin Mir Stadium, passing Cha Bum-kun’s 58 to become the country’s leading men’s scorer. South Korea won 2-0, with Kyunghyan…
Musk regains trillionaire status as SpaceX shares jump 7.63%
SpaceX shares closed 7.63% higher at $171.09 on Oct. 5, their highest level in about three months, after Morgan Stanley set a $300 target price. Forbes put Elon Musk's net worth at $1.046 trillion (about 1,400 trillion won), returning him t…
South Korea meet Uzbekistan in Yongin as Moreno seeks turnaround
South Korea play Uzbekistan at 8 p.m. on Oct. 6 at Yongin Mir Stadium in the last of four September-October internationals, with Chosun Ilbo calling it a prelude between Asian Cup contenders. Korean outlets describe the team as unsettled af…
Choi Won-jun and Victor Reyes both reach 200 hits in one KBO season for first time
KT Wiz's Choi Won-jun and Lotte Giants' Victor Reyes each reached 200 hits on Oct 6, the first time two players have done so in a single KBO season. Choi's 200th hit was a third-inning double at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul; Reyes reached the …
Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games close in Nagoya; South Korea finishes third
The 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games closed on Oct 4 with a ceremony at Nagoya's Mizuho Park Athletics Stadium, ending 16 days of competition. South Korea finished third with 39 gold, 43 silver and 68 bronze medals, behind China and Japan. The…
Korea third in Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games medals; 357-member para team to be sent
China finished first in the final medal standings of the 20th Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with 169 gold medals, ahead of host Japan on 83 gold and South Korea, which took 39 gold, 43 silver and 68 bronze — 150 medals in total — according to Yo…
KBO League sets single-season attendance record with 12.36 million
The 2026 KBO League has set an all-time single-season attendance record, the Korea Baseball Organization said, reaching 12,362,000 spectators over 699 games as of Oct. 5 — above the 12,312,519 of 2025. On Oct. 5, 95,922 people entered five …
Second National Growth Fund round sells 316.2 bln won in four days, 52.7% of target
The second round of South Korea's state-backed National Participation National Growth Fund sold 316.2 billion won in its first four days, 52.7% of its 600 billion won target, the Financial Services Commission said. The remaining 283.43 bill…
Daejeon and Hanwha Eagles agree to add 3,000 seats to ballpark by 2028
Daejeon City and the Hanwha Eagles signed an investment agreement on Oct. 6 to add 3,000 seats to Hanwha Life Ballpark, raising capacity from 17,000 to 20,000. The project is expected to cost up to 130 billion won, with the club covering 25…
Son Heung-min chases outright South Korea scoring record against Uzbekistan
Son Heung-min will try to take South Korea's men's all-time scoring record outright when South Korea play Uzbekistan in a friendly at Yongin Mir Stadium at 8 p.m. on Oct. 6. Dong-A Ilbo reported that Son has 58 A-match goals, level with for…