Sports

Current news from LA Dodgers...

Ryu is a South Korean starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major Baseball League. In 2013, after spending seven seasons with the Hanwha Eagles of KBO, Ryu became the first player from the KBO to join a MLB team via the posting system. Ryu was also the first South Korean to serve as the starting pitcher of a Major Baseball League postseason game.

On November 9, 2012, the Eagles accepted the reported bid of $25,737,737.33 from the Los Angeles Dodgers, giving them a 30-day period to try to negotiate a contract with Ryu. On December 9, he was signed to a 6 year, $36 million deal, that included the option to opt out after the 5th year if certain performance benchmarks were reached (750 innings pitched by year 5, an average of 150 innings/year).

Games

THE MOST POPULAR GAME IN KOREA IS...

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS!!

 League of legends is a game that two teams fight each other to crash opposite team's nexus. It has been loved by gamers for a long time. Korea has one of the highest amount of players of league of legends. League of legends started to get popular in 2012. There are lot of pro gamers in Korea who are well known through out the world. Korea has champion ship of league of legend called "Masters". One of the most popular teams all over the world is SKT T1. They became famous after they won the "World Champion Ship of League". In SKT T1, there is one person called "Faker". All around the world admit that he is the best player in the League of Legends. If you want to know about "Faker" more, Click here! In addition, you should try this game if you haven't played it before.

Hot issues

Current News from Korea

The ship called "Saewol" ship sank near Jindo Island. The ship was going to island of Jeju from Incheon on 16 April 2014. Most of people in the ship were high school students which they were going on a field trip. After two hours of shipping, the ship submerged. Beside the 174 passengers rescued on the first day, no survivors have been found. The confirmed death toll hit at least 171 on Thursday, and the remaining missing passengers are feared dead. At the time of the accident, the captain was in his private cabin and the third mate was at the helm. The captain even did not call anyone for help, but he escaped leaving his passengers alone. He only announced to stay where they are and do not move. However, the captain escaped after the announcement with some of cruisers. 

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By...David YU

Introduction

 Hello. My name is David Yu and this is a blog about Korea News. This blog tells people what happens in Korea recently. It has categories for news that people can choose to read whatever they want to know about. There are introduction, hot issues, sports, pictures, movies, musics, interesting facts and games that are related to Korea. So, if you want to know about Korea, you should read my blog.

  The reasons why I choose this topic are to tell people about Korea and to make people get interest about Korea. Many people only know few thing about Korea. High school students should know some information that happens in another country, so they can understand their culture. I am Korean, so I know there are lots of interesting news going on in Korea. Now, let see some news about Korea.