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Korea picks up 3 gold medals in fencing, taekwondo

JAKARTA -- South Korea arrived in Jakarta with an eye on eight gold medals in fencing at the 18th Asian Games. After getting shut out on Sunday, the team claimed two gold medals on the piste on Monda...

Aug 21, 2018
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N. Korea's Om Yun-chol defends weightlifting title

JAKARTA (Yonhap) -- North Korean weightlifter Om Yun-chol successfully defended his Asian Games title on Monday. Om, 26, won the men's 56kg weightlifting competition at the 18th Asian Games after cl...

Aug 20, 2018
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S. Korea's Kim Jan-di wins silver in women's taekwondo 67kg

JAKARTA (Yonhap) -- South Korean taekwondo fighter Kim Jan-di won a silver medal in the women's 67-kilogram division at the 18th Asian Games on Monday. Kim lost to Julyana Al Sadeq of Jordan 5-1 in ...

Aug 20, 2018
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S. Korean taekwondo fighter Kim Tae-hun wins gold in men's 58kg

JAKARTA (Yonhap) -- South Korean taekwondo fighter Kim Tae-hun won a gold medal in the men's 58-kilogram division at the 18th Asian Games on Monday. Kim defeated Niyaz Pulatov of Uzbekistan 24-6 in ...

Aug 20, 2018
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Korea grabs 2 shooting silver medals

PALEMBANG, Indonesia -- South Korea picked up two silver medals in shooting at the 18th Asian Games on Monday. First, it was Jung Eun-hea winning silver in the women’s 10-meter air rifle at Jakabar...

Aug 20, 2018
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Korean shooting legend aims for his 1st individual gold

South Korean shooting legend Jin Jong-oh will try to add one more honor to his already-decorated resume on Tuesday by winning the men's 10-meter air pistol event at the 18th Asian Games. Jin, who wo...

Aug 20, 2018
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Djokovic wins Cincy title to complete Masters matched set

Mason, OH (AFP) -- Novak Djokovic ended a career-long jinx, lifting the trophy in Cincinnati at last to complete a matched set of Masters 1000 titles. Djokovic, who came up empty in five prior Cinci...

Aug 20, 2018
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Two taekwondo golds among 11 medals for Korea on Day 1

JAKARTA -- South Korea wasted little time establishing its winning ways at the 18th Asian Games, picking up two gold medals to go along with three silver and six bronze medals on Sunday, the first fu...

Aug 20, 2018
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Unified Korean rowing team finishes last in qualification in Asiad debut

PALEMBANG -- A unified Korean men's rowing team finished last in its qualification group in its Asian Games debut on Sunday. Kim Su-min and Park Tae-hyun from South Korea and Yun Chol-jin and Kim Ch...

Aug 19, 2018
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Koreas march together at Asian Games' opening ceremony

South and North Korea marched together at the opening ceremony of the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta on Saturday, marking the second time in six months that the two were united behind one flag at an int...

Aug 18, 2018
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S. Korean prime minister leaves for Indonesia for Asian Games

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon left for Indonesia Saturday to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, setting the stage for a possible meeting with a senior North Korean official. (...

Aug 18, 2018
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Co-host city of Palembang could be promised land for S. Korea

Palembang, a co-host city of the 2018 Asian Games along with Jakarta, could prove to be the promised land for South Korea, once the competition begins in earnest on Sunday. Located about 430 kilomet...

Aug 18, 2018
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Unified Korean team suffers 1st loss in women's basketball

The unified Korea women's basketball team suffered its first loss at the Asian Games on Friday, falling to Chinese Taipei 87-85 in overtime. Korea rallied from a 71-65 deficit with 3:22 remaining in...

Aug 17, 2018
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S. Korea officially checks into athletes' village in Jakarta

The South Korean delegation for the 18th Asian Games officially paraded into the athletes' village in Jakarta at a welcome event on Thursday. Led by chef de mission Kim Seong-jo, 20 South Korean ath...

Aug 16, 2018
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S. Korea handily beats Mongolia for 2nd straight men's hoops win

Defending champion South Korea breezed past Mongoalia 108-73 for its second straight victory in men's basketball at the Asian Games on Thursday. Ricardo Ratliffe, a U.S.-born player who acquired his...

Aug 16, 2018
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