DUBAI (AP) ― Tiger Woods overcame a poor start in windy conditions Saturday to shoot a par 72, one shot behind leader Rory McIlroy and two others going into the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic. On dusty day in the desert when the wind reached 28 mph, Woods showed an uncanny ability to repeatedly rally. He finished with a total of 7-under 209, behind second-round leader McIlroy (75), Den...

In Monaco, defender Igor Lolo opened the scoring for the hosts with a bouncing shot after three minutes. France international Kevin Gameiro leveled for Lorient in the 22nd with a first-time strike into the top corner off a long pass from Morgan Amalfitano. Thomas Mangani outpaced the Lorient defense to give Monaco a 2-1 lead by beating goalkeeper Fabien Audard in the 56th. South Korea midfield...

Exhibitions “Manga Realities: Exploring the Art of Japanese Comics Today”: Artsonje Center, a private art museum which usually presents contemporary conceptual art, has opened its space for a show on Japanese comics. The exhibition attempts a 3-D realization of the comics by adding whimsical props and installations that look like they just popped out of the comic books. It makes the case for why...

Under the subconsciousness The Other Side of Dark Remembrance By Lee Kyun-young (Jimoondang, 5,000 won) Unlike many other novels written on the Korean War (1950-1953), author Lee Kyun-young’s “The Other Side of Dark Remembrance” does not hold ideological conflicts of the two Koreas at its front. Instead, it follows the mundane life of an office worker with a low salary living in Seoul. The m...

Memoir of U.S.–Korea FTA Kim Hyun-jong talks of U.S.―Korea FTA By Kim Hyun-jong (Hongsungsa, 19,000 won) Kim Hyun-jong is the former minister for trade in the late President Roh Moo-hyun administration. Being one of the central figures in the administration’s trade policy from 2003 to 2007, Kim initiated numerous free trade agreement (FTA) plans with Mexico, India, Canada, Singapore, MERCOSU...

Newcomers fill void left by Park and Lee Managers do not often feel pressure before going into a friendly match. But for Korean national team manager Cho Kwang-rae, there was much to think about when he faced Guss Hiddink’s Turkish side Wednesday night in Trabzon, Turkey. He also put the 19-year-old Nam Tae-hee in the frontline to test his new attacking strategies. However, Cho had to settle w...

Lionel Messi converted a 90th-minute penalty kick to give Argentina a dramatic 2-1 exhibition victory over Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo, while France maintained its revival under coach Laurent Blanc with a 1-0 win over five-time world champion Brazil on Wednesday night. Ronaldo scored a tying goal in the 21st minute equalizer in Geneva, but the Real Madrid forward was upstaged by his Barcelona...

World No. 1 snowboarder hopes to see more Korean challengers PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province ― Austrian snowboarder Benjamin Karl says he would like to see more Korean boarders compete at world-class level and more people enjoy the sport. The current world No.1 had a commanding victory Wednesday in the parallel giant slalom event at Yongpyong Resort. It was the Austrian’s fourth consecutive Worl...

16 companies agree to open new stores if the city wins Games bid A group of Korean retailers vowed to back PyeongChang’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and signed a memorandum of understanding with the bid committee on Tuesday. Sixteen companies, including Lotte Group, which operates chains of Lotte Department Store, Lotte Mart and Lotte Super and retail giant GS Group, have agreed to ope...

A South Korean online game company has been tabbed as the owner of a new local professional baseball team. The Korea Baseball Organization on Tuesday gave the green light to NCsoft Corps., the game developer, to begin work on founding the ninth club in the top-division baseball league in South Korea. The expansion team will be based in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, about 400 kilometers so...

South Korean athletes returned home Monday from the Asian Winter Games in Kazakhstan, where they put together the country’s most successful Winter Asiad performance. South Korea won its all-time high of 13 gold medals in Almaty and Astana, the two Kazakh cities that hosted events during the competition. South Korea added 12 silver and 13 bronze medals for a total of 38 medals, three more than it...