Soccer phenom Son Heung-min has officially joined the LAFC (Los Angeles Football Club) in Major League Soccer (MLS). The trailblazing superstar made headlines with a record-breaking transfer fee of over $26.5 million, the highest in MLS history. This move ends his remarkable 10-year career at Tottenham Hotspur, where he served as both club captain and…
The first time I heard the sound, I wasn’t sure what it was. My husband and I were strolling through the lush greenery of Seoul Forest when we heard a familiar “pop, pop, pop.” Curious, we followed the noise past the flower gardens and basketball courts—and there it was: a group of Koreans playing pickleball.…
Call me competitive, but I admit I watched the medal count in the Olympics every day of the events in Paris and, sometimes, multiple times a day. Two numbers mattered most to me: the USA and South Korea. When the events came to an end on Sunday, the numbers were fixed and there was a…
With this announcement, Son becomes not only the first Asian captain in the Premier League but also the first Asian captain in any of the top five football leagues in Europe. With the recent departures of former captain Hugo Lloris and vice-captain Harry Kane, the spot for the team captain was vacant at the…
Time Predicted It and Chloe Kim Delivered: KA Snowboarder Wins Gold Medal #2 in Beijing When Chloe Kim appeared on the cover of Time magazine on January 31, 2022, she had a tremendous amount of pressure on her going into the Beijing Olympics as the defending champion of the Snowboard Halfpipe competition. But she prevailed…
After a near two year break from competitions, Chloe Kim continues her reign at the X Games in Aspen Still just 20 years old, Korean American Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim sat out the entire 2019-20 competition season to focus on her first year at Princeton. As if her studies didn’t have her busy enough,…
Ji Man “G-Money” Choi, the first Korean-born player to record a hit in the World Series. 2020 has been a year of many firsts for Korea on the world stage: Parasite, the first non-English language/South Korean film to win Best Picture at the Oscars; Kamala Harris, the first Black and Asian-American woman nominated vice president…
Young You won the South Korean Figure Skating Championship aged 11, and is only the 11th female skater to land a feared triple axel in competition – will she repeat the feat at Beijing 2020? The 16-year-old Young You – dubbed the “next Yuna Kim” – is just like any other girl of her age…