For South Korean table tennis player Shin Yu-bin, suffering a wrist injury toward the end of 2021 might have seemed like a career-derailing event at the time. Nearly two years later, Shin is gearing up for her first Asian Games, having been able to use the time on the sidelines wisely to work on different elements of her game. The 19-year-old now believes it will serve her well at the Asiad in Hangzou, China, startin.
For South Korean national Baek Hwi-jeong, China has not only been her home for nearly a quarter century, it's also where she raised a family and became a seasoned businesswoman. She moved to China in 1998 at age 30, accompanying her husband who had received a government scholarship to study at Peking University, along with their then one-year-old son. Their.
Asian refiners are broadly unfazed by the the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Washington’s focus on sweeping financial sanctions on Moscow as Russian oil makes up only a small portion of many Asian countries’ refinery feedstock import baskets, with many alternatives seen available. With the US and its allies blocking some Russian banks from accessing the SWIFT .
For South Korean pianist Su Yeon Kim, the music of Frederic Chopin is a way of life and competing in the world’s most prestigious event bearing the French-Polish composer’s name is a dream come true. She says the first piece by the 19th-century composer and piano virtuoso – who was born in 1810 and died in 1849 – that she learned to play as a child was his Minute Waltz.