A day after South Korea went without a medal, taekwondo practitioner Park Tae-joon made sure the dry spell would not last any longer, winning the gold medal in the men’s lightest weight class on

On the third day of the taekwondo competition at the Paris Olympics on Friday, Seo Geon-woo will become the first South Korean to compete in the men’s -80-kilogram event.

He will try to blaze

Unlike many other athletes, Park Tae-joon, freshly crowned an Olympic taekwondo champion in Paris on Wednesday, doesn’t have pre-match rituals or superstitions.

The 20-year-old instead likes to give himself a positive pep talk. Messages

The government said Thursday it plans to announce new residential land sites capable of supplying a total of 80,000 housing units in the capital region by lifting greenbelt restrictions.

The government also vowed to

The provision of Samsung smartphones to North Korean Olympic athletes in Paris is subject to a possible violation of U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolutions banning the North’s access to industrial equipment, Seoul officials said