In front of a smallish crowd of a couple thousand the Korean Olympic team dominated The Netherlands in a Beijing primer at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul 10-2. I’ll do a larger preview of the team after I see them go against Cuba today and tomorrow, but expect the Korean team to challenge Japan, Cuba, Canada [...]

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I’m in Seoul right now watching the Korean national team’s Olympic warmup games versus Holland and Cuba. I’m staying at a  pretty  nice hotel in Gangnam, and the place is teeming with Olympic athletes, no doubt training and staying in Seoul to avoid Beijing as long as possible.
From an AP story today:
Beijing’s smoggy air [...]

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I read an amazing story this morning, about a woman from the former East Germany, Renate Hong, separated from her North Korean husband Hong Ok-geun some 40 years ago, was granted permission by North Korea to travel to the country with their two sons and visit their husband/father. The children had never met the man, [...]

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For the fifth time in the tournament’s history South Korea won the AAA World Junior Championships in Edmonton, shutting out a previously undefeated United States team by a 7-0 score. All five of the Korean team’s championships have come against the U.S. Think there’s something to this?
The winning pitcher was Sung Yung-hoon, who I’ve written [...]

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