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From left, Kim Je-deok, Kim Woo-jin and Lee Woo-seok of Korea pose with their gold medals won in the recurve men's team event at the World Archery Championships at the May 18 Democracy Plaza in Gwangju on Sept. 10. [YONHAP]

Host Korea strikes gold in recurve mens team event at archery worlds

Korea's An San and Kim Woo-jin combined for the recurve mixed team silver medal at the world championships on home soil, losing to the Spanish team of Elia Canales and Andres Temino Mediel 6-2.

2025.9.10

Olympic champion An San, left, and An's Instagram story post [YONHAP, SCREEN CAPTURE]

‘Traitors in Korea’: Olympic champion An San's post about Japanese-style bar sparks lawsuit

Olympic archery champion An San is being sued for defamation after criticizing a Japanese-style bar on social media.

2024.3.19

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Korea's Lim Si-hyeon and An San take gold and silver, respectively, in the women's recurve final on Saturday at the Hangzhou Asian Games. [YONHAP]

Lim Si-hyeon wins recurve gold as Korea ends archery on top

Korea dominated the archery events on the final day of the Hangzhou Asian Games, winning five medals. Lim Si-hyeon secured gold in the women's recurve contest, while So Chae-won won a silver in the women's compound event.

2023.10.7

Eye on the prize

Korean archer An San competes against Diananda Choirunisa of Indonesia in the quarterfinals of the women’s individual recurve contest at the Hangzhou Asian Games in Hangzhou, China on Tuesday

2023.10.3

From left to right: Choi Yong-hee, Yang Jae-won and Kim Jong-ho celebrate after beating Denmark in the men's team compound bronze medal match at the Gwangju 2022 Hyundai Archery World Cup at Gwangju International Archery Center in Gwangju. [NEWS1]

Men's compound team win Korea's first medal at archery World Cup

The Korean national team won the men's compound team bronze medal on Wednesday at the Gwangju 2022 Hyundai Archery World Cup.

2022.5.18

An San shoots her arrow on Thursday during the second Korean national archery squad qualification match for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held at Wonju Archery Field in Wonju, Gangwon. [YONHAP]

Olympic archers head to Hangzhou Asian Games to represent Korea

Five Olympic archery gold medalists — Kang Chae-young, An San, Kim Woo-jin, Oh Jin-hyek and Kim Je-deok — will be heading to the Hangzhou Asian Games to represent Korea.

2022.4.24

An San appears in the IOC video 'Celebrating Women at the Olympic Games.' [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Kim Yuna, An San feature in IOC video celebrating female Olympians

Korean athletes Kim Yuna and An San were included in an International Olympic Committee (IOC) video celebrating women at the Olympics.

2022.3.31

Kim Woo-jin celebrates winning the individual recurve gold medal at the 2021 World Archery Championships on Sunday in Yankton, South Dakota. [NEWS1]

Korean archers sweep recurve medals at World Championships

Korean archers swept the recurve podium at the 2021 World Archery Championships, winning all three team gold medals and two individual gold medals for the first time in 12 years.

2021.9.27

Korea’s national archery team after returning from Tokyo to Incheon on Aug. 1. [YONHAP]

Korea’s national archery team set for the small screen

Korea’s national archery team, which won four gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, is set to appear on various entertainment shows. On Tuesday, tvN entertainment show “You Quiz on the Block” announced that Team Korea archers Kang Chae-young ...

2021.8.10

Archer An San celebrates her three gold medals won at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. [YONHAP]

Korea ends archery contest with 4 gold medals and a new hero

With 20-year-old An San becoming the first-ever archer to take home three gold medals at a single Olympics, the Korean archery team leaves the Tokyo Games having won four gold medals in five events.

2021.7.31