CJ Logistics Racing has appointed former mechanic Jang Jun-soo as its new head coach for the 2024 season. CJ Logistics Racing announced on April 19 that it has selected Jang Jun-soo, who has worked as a mechanic and engineer for Nissan Motorsport International Racing Team and AtrasBX Motorsport Racing Team in Japan, as its new…
South Korean shooter Kwon Eun-ji (21, Uljin-guncheong) rang the World Cup golden gun for the first time in 22 years. Kwon stood atop the podium in the women’s 10-meter air rifle at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Granada, Spain, on Monday (Sept. 19).World No. 3 Kwon Eun-ji, who finished sixth in…
The management team that brought home the best result in Korean swimming history at the Doha 2024 International Swimming Federation World Championships has returned home with gold. Kim Woo-min (22, Gangwon Provincial Office) and Hwang Sun-woo (20, Gangwon Provincial Office), who broke new ground for Korean swimming in Doha, Qatar, arrived back at Incheon International…
Brazil’s “one-armed table tennis player” Bruna Costa Alexandre, 28, is continuing her remarkable run at the BNK Busan Bank 2024 World Table Tennis Championships in Busan. Born in 1995, Alexandre had his right arm amputated just three months after he was born due to thrombosis, a side effect of a vaccine. He took up the…
As the year 2023 draws to a close, the K-pop industry reflects on a year marked by extended global expansion and a continued craze for girl groups following the trend from last year. While the temporary hiatus of superstar BTS for its members’ mandatory military service posed a new challenge, their solo endeavors and the…
NewJeans will release its first remix album, “NJWMX,” timed with the first anniversary of the release of its smash hit “Ditto” on Tuesday. Announcing the plan for the upcoming release on social media Friday, the K-pop quintet also unveiled two teaser videos. “NJWMX” will have a total of 12 tracks, including remixed versions of two…
For Lee Jin-uk’s fans, the actor is still remembered for the much-talked-about scene from the 2015 body-swap romance film, “The Beauty Inside,” where his dazzling looks elicited exclamations from the audience. In Netflix’s apocalyptic horror series “Sweet Home,” however, he plays a character he has never tried before: a strangely calm, scarred thug with a…
The Disney+ sci-fi action series “Moving” became the platform’s most-watched local original series of the year, the Walt Disney Company Korea said Friday. Premiered on Aug. 9, the series quickly gained popularity, becoming the most-watched show on the streaming platform in the Asia-Pacific region and topping Disney+’s global chart and Hulu in the United States…
BTS’ J-Hope to release special album, documentary about street dance next month
BTS’ J-Hope will drop a new album and a documentary about street dance, the rapper-dancer’s music roots, BigHit Music said Monday. The special album, titled “Hope On the Street VOL.1,” containing six tracks, will be released on March 29. Along with the album, a new documentary of the same name will be released one day…
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