South Korea collected two silver medals in the inaugural men's and women's roller skating relays at the Asian Games in China on Monday, with a premature celebration costing the men's team the gold medal.
South Korea won its first gold medal from roller skating at the 19th Asian Games in China on Saturday. Jeong Byeong-hee clocked in 15:39.867 and scored 19 points in the men's 10,000m point-elimination final race at Qiantang Roller Sports Centre in Hangzhou, outpacing Zhang Zhenhai of China by five points. His compatriot Choi In-ho finished third with 11 points. This is South Korea's first gold medal from th.
Criticism is mounting over rival parties politically motivated moves that resulted in the cancellation of an expressway construction project connecting Seoul and Yangpyeong County, Gyeonggi Province. The main opposition party has argued that such a project would have given financial benefits to first lady Kim Keon Hee s family.
The price of KTX high-speed trains operated by KORAIL has spiked 49 percent over the past six years, due to what one opposition lawmaker characterized as the result of a monopoly over the public transit market engineered by Hyundai Rotem, a railway vehicle manufacturing affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group. Rep. Choi In-ho of the Democratic Party of Korea said the demands of the Hyundai affiliate on price hikes is almost always met due to a lack of healthy competition in the market, a chief driver of chronic losses at national railway operator. New market players should be nurtured and allowed to enter the lucrative market, the lawmaker said, to prevent collusion, delays in orders and price increases, all of which are shouldered by taxpayers.