Feb 24, 2026 Woojin Nam www.chosun.com The Samsung Lions finished re-signing 68 players on January 26. Won Tae-in renewed his contract with a salary of 1 billion won, which is the highest on the team. It has been eight years since he debuted in the KBO. He is one of the best starting pitchers in the league, recording the most wins in 2024. In 2025, he recorded 20 quality starts and 12 wins. Won Tae-in has pitched more than 150 innings each season since 2021, showing great con

Jan 25, 2026 Yul So www.theatlantic.com The year 2026 is expected to become a major turning point in the history of space exploration. For the first time in more than 50 years, humans will fly around the Moon. Spacecraft will enter Mercury’s orbit, collect samples from a moon of Mars, and closely study asteroids, the Sun, and space weather. Government agencies and private companies will undertake ambitious missions simultaneously, marking what many scientists call a new golde

Jan 25, 2025 Gyeonghyun Cho dukeghic.org When Covid19 broke out in 2020, most people visited the hospital to have a shot of Covid19 vaccine to prevent the spread of the virus. However, vaccine exemption rates for school-required childhood immunization have increased across much of the United States after Covid pandemic, mainly due to nonmedical exemptions based on personal religious beliefs. Most experts assume that misinformation, political debates, and vaccine hesitancy con

Jan 25, 2026 Seoyeon Kim cm.asiae.co.kr Venezuela secretly exported more than 100 tons of gold to Switzerland during the early years of President Nicolás Maduro’s rule as the country struggled to prevent a total economic collapse, according to newly released customs data and international investigations. Records from Swiss customs authorities show that between 2013 and 2016, Venezuela shipped approximately 113 to 127 metric tons of gold to Switzerland. The total value of the

Jan 25, 2026 Joanne Lee biz.chosun.com The Women’s Korean Basketball League (WKBL) has issued an official apology for a game delay caused by referees. Follow-up reports revealed that the incident happened because referees were not properly assigned in advance. On January 16, 2026, a women’s professional basketball game between the Cheongju KB Stars and Incheon Shinhan Bank, held at Cheongju Gymnasium, was delayed by 30 minutes. At 7:09 p.m., fans were informed that the game w

Jan 25, 2026 Junhwi Lee biz.chosun.com Even in China, there's a chilly sentiment surrounding their own U-23 national team. So it's a bit unsettling to see signs that China may be looking down on Korea when it comes to football. China’s U-23 squad played to a 0-0 draw with Thailand in their final Group D match of the 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup, held on January 14 (Korea time) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With one win and two draws, they finished second in the group and, for the first

Jan 25, 2026 Joanne Lee basketkorea.com [Interview] Lee Hak-hyun: A Captain’s Final Season Lee Hak-hyun, a senior guard who served as team captain last season, graduated from high school at the end of the season and is now preparing for the college league. He began playing basketball in the second grade of elementary school and went on to attend Samseon Elementary School and Samseon Middle School before advancing to Kyungbok High School. Since entering high school, he steadil

Jan 25, 2026 Seoyoung Kang www.nature.com Nuclear fusion is often described as a future energy source that could help solve global energy problems. Recently, a research team in China reported an important result in this field. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an experimental fusion reactor called EAST was able to reach conditions that scientists had previously struggled to achieve. The most important part of this experiment was keeping plasma stable at a ve