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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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Over 9,000 hotline calls made by stalking victims in 2023
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Monthly users on local streaming platforms outpace Netflix, Disney+
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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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Seoul to promote luxurious side of the city
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Giants push Tigers to brink
DETROIT (AP) ― Nothing is stopping them ― not even the Triple Crown winner at the plate with the bases loaded.Armed and accelerating, the San Francisco Giants became the first team to throw consecutive World Series shutouts in nearly a half-century, blanking Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers 2-0 on a chilly Saturday night for a commanding 3-0 lead.No team has ever blown such a huge margin in the World Series. And with the way Ryan Vogelsong, Tim Lincecum and the Giants are pitching, it seeme
Oct. 28, 2012
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Pettersen, Park share LPGA Tour lead in Taiwan
YANG MEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Norway's Suzann Pettersen shot a 7-under 65 on Friday to share the second-round lead with South Korea's Inbee Park in the LPGA Taiwan Championship.The winners the last two weeks in the opening events on the tour's Asian Swing, Pettersen and Park had 10-under 134 totals at the Sunrise Golf and Country Club. Park shot a 69.Yani Tseng, the top-ranked Taiwanese star who won the tournament last year, was two strokes back along with Scotland's Catriona Matthew. Tseng shot a 69
Oct. 27, 2012
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Park leads by strokes in Taiwan
YANG MEI, Taiwan (AP) ― Park In-bee of South Korea shot a 7-under 65 to take a two-stroke lead over local favorite and top-ranked Yani Tseng after the first round of the Taiwan Championship on Thursday.Park, leading the race for LPGA Tour player of the year, had seven birdies at Sunrise Golf and Country Club.Defending champion Tseng finished the day with six birdies offset by a bogey on the 10th hole.The group of four tied for third on 68 included Nicole Castrale and Danielle Kang of the United
Oct. 26, 2012
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Gainey wins Sea Island with course record
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Georgia (AP) ― Winning on the PGA Tour is what Tommy Gainey dreamed about when he held a job wrapping insulation around hot water tanks, when he was playing more mini-tours than he can remember, when he was taking part in a Golf Channel reality series where he was best known as the guy wearing two gloves.“Two Gloves” never imagined his first win would unfold the way it did Sunday at Sea Island.Seven shots behind going into the final round of the McGladrey Classic, Gainey came
Oct. 22, 2012
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Kim Dae-sub captures Kolon Korea Open
CHEONAN (Yonhap News) -- South Korean Kim Dae-sub captured the Korean national golf championship for the third time on Sunday.On the par-71 Woojeong Hills Country Club in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, about 90 kilometers south of Seoul, Kim shot a two-under 69 to finish at five-under 279 at the 55th Kolon Korea Open. Kim Dae-hyun, who shared the third-round lead with Kim Dae-sub at three-under, shot an even par round of 71 to finish two strokes back in second.Kim Dae-sub won the Korean na
Oct. 21, 2012
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Kim Mi-hyun bids farewell to golf
INCHEON (Yonhap News) ― Eight-time LPGA Tour winner Kim Mi-hyun of South Korea bid a teary farewell to competitive golf on Sunday, after completing her final round at the LPGA KEB-HanaBank Championship on her home soil.On the Ocean Course at the Sky72 Golf Club here, just west of Seoul, Kim ended the three-round tournament at 8-over par. Slowed by leg pains all week, she started the week with a four-over 76 on Friday and followed it up with a 70 on Saturday. In the final round, she made just one
Oct. 21, 2012
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Bettman, NHL make new offer
TORONTO (AP) ― The stalled talks between the NHL and the players’ association finally got a jumpstart.After watching 34 days pass without a new proposal being offered from either side in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, commissioner Gary Bettman made a new offer to the NHLPA that proposes a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue and a full 82-game season starting Nov. 2.As talks resumed for the first time since last week between the league and the union, Bettman proudly ann
Oct. 17, 2012
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Tseng in slump, out of answers
Five months without a top 10. Sixteen consecutive rounds without breaking 70. An average final round of 74.3 since April. The numbers add to a player mired in a dreadful slump, and it’s even more shocking when they belong to the No. 1 player in the world.Yani Tseng doesn’t seem to have any answers.“I think this is just part of real life when you go out and you have to go down and maybe you go up again,” Tseng said in South Korea, where she is the defending champion in the LPGA HanaBank Champions
Oct. 17, 2012
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Homegrown golf stars to vie for Korea Open title
Minus the defending champion from the U.S., homegrown stars will vie for South Korea’s national golf championship this week.The 55th Kolon Korea Open will tee off Thursday at Woojeong Hills Country Club in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, about 90 kilometers south of Seoul. The winner’s paycheck will be 300 million won ($270,000), the largest offered at a golf tournament held in South Korea.Defending champion Rickie Fowler won’t play on the par-71, 7,225-yard layout this year because of back
Oct. 16, 2012
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Funk edges Waldorf to win Greater Hickory Classic
CONOVER, North Carolina (AP) ― Fred Funk made a two-foot birdie putt on No. 18 to edge Duffy Waldorf by one stroke for the Greater Hickory Classic title on Sunday.The 56-year-old Funk shot a 3-under 69 in the final round at Rock Barn Golf and Spa’s Jones Course for a three-day total of 15-under 201.It was the second Champions Tour victory this season for Funk, who won at The Woodlands in Texas in May. Funk now has eight career wins on the 50-and-over tour.Waldorf, a four-time winner on the PGA T
Oct. 15, 2012
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Blixt wins Frys.com Open
SAN MARTIN, California (AP) ― Jonas Blixt is a frustrated hockey player turned golfer. He’s also a winner in his first season on the PGA Tour.“I was more interested in hockey. I wanted to be a hockey player,” the Swede said Sunday after his breakthrough victory in the Frys.com Open. “I never really got big enough or good enough to play. Golf kind of suited me pretty well.”Blixt was a defenseman and played hockey well into his teens.“It’s the greatest sport ever,” he said. “The lockout just kills
Oct. 15, 2012
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Top two finishers from 2011 eager for another duel at LPGA stop in S. Korea
World No. 1 Yani Tseng and No. 3 Choi Na-yeon said Monday they‘re looking forward to engaging in another duel this week for the title at the only LPGA Tour stop in South Korea.Tseng, the defending champion of the US$1.8 million LPGA KEB-HanaBank Championship, and Choi, the runner-up last year, sat side by side at the pre-tournament press conference at the Ocean Course of the Sky72 Golf Club here in Incheon, just west of Seoul.With the start of the three-round event set for Friday, Tseng spoke of
Oct. 15, 2012
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Park In-bee rallies to win LPGA Malaysia
South Korean golfer Park In-bee won the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia tournament on Sunday for her third career victory.At Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club, Park overcame a two-shot final round deficit against compatriot Choi Na-yeon. Park fired a four-under 67 on Sunday for the four-round total of 15-under. Choi managed only a 71 to finish two shots behind Park in second place.Park picked up six birdies over her first 14 holes, and clung to the victory despite closing out with two bogeys. Choi had t
Oct. 14, 2012
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Park In-bee wins LPGA Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- South Korea’s Park In-bee won the LPGA Malaysia title on Sunday, sinking birdies on four out of her first five holes on the back nine for a four-under 67, denying compatriot Na-yeon Choi a successful title defense.Park, the current LPGA Money List leader and winner of the U.S. Women’s Open in 2008, claimed her second title of the season and third of her career, finishing with 15-under 269 to win by two strokes. Choi, who won the title by one stroke last year, had a
Oct. 14, 2012
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S. Korea's Park In-bee wins LPGA event in Malaysia
South Korean golfer Park In-bee won the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia tournament on Sunday for her third career victory.At Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club, Park overcame a two-shot final round deficit against compatriot Choi Na-yeon. Park fired a four-under 67 on Sunday for the four-round total of 15-under. Choi managed only a 71 to finish two shots behind Park in second place.Park picked up six birdi
Oct. 14, 2012
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Westwood to meet Rose in World Golf Final
BELEK, Turkey (AP) ― Justin Rose beat Tiger Woods by a stroke Thursday to set up a title match with Lee Westwood in the World Golf Final.The two Englishmen, who played on the victorious European Ryder Cup team, will meet Saturday, with the winner getting $1.5 million and the runner-up $1 million in the eight-player exhibition.Rose, who holed a sand wedge shot for an eagle at the 14th, finished with a 2-under 69 while Woods was at 70.Westwood shot a course-record 61 in the semifinals to beat 2011
Oct. 12, 2012
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Choi leads in Malaysia
Defending champion Choi Na-yeon shoots a 67 to take 2-stroke lead after 2 rounds in MalaysiaKUALA LUMPUR (AP) ― Defending champion Choi Na-yeon shot a 6-under 65 on Thursday in the LPGA Malaysia for a share of the lead with Hall of Famer Karrie Webb.Choi was 5 under through 12 holes when first-round play was delayed because of lightning, then added a birdie on the par-4 14th and finished the bogey-free round with four pars. The South Korean player won the U.S. Women’s Open in July for her first
Oct. 12, 2012
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Golf’s global growth on the rise
The best measure of how much golf is growing around the world can be found in Turkey, of all places.And not just because that’s where the stars have come to play.Never mind that Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are among eight elite players in an exhibition called the “World Golf Finals” that began Tuesday. It’s mostly for show (four players wore shorts during the opening round of medal matches) and plenty of dough ($1.5 million for the winner).No doubt, this can only help Turkey’s bid to land the O
Oct. 10, 2012
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Tiger eyes leading U.S. at Ryder Cup
BELEK, Turkey (AP) ― Tiger Woods hopes to captain the U.S. Ryder Cup team someday. He still plans to play in a few more before that happens.The 14-time major winner is coming off a disappointing performance at Medinah. “One day that would be fantastic and a huge honor to be a captain of a Ryder Cup team, but hopefully it doesn’t happen in the near future,” Woods said. “I still want to be playing on a lot more teams but certainly one day, when my golfing life is slowing down and when it’s over, t
Oct. 9, 2012
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Moore wins by 1 shot in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) ― Former UNLV player Ryan Moore won the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on Sunday for his second PGA Tour title, birdieing the 16th hole to take the outright lead and finishing with a 5-under 66 for a one-stroke victory over Brendon de Jonge.Tied with de Jonge and Jonas Blixt after the third round, Moore finished at 24-under 260 at TPC Summerlin. The Las Vegas resident earned $810,000 in the Fall Series opener.De Jonge shot a 67. Blixt had a 70 to finish thi
Oct. 8, 2012