{"id":249462,"date":"2026-11-09T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-secures-historic-south-korea-sports-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:30:46","slug":"southern-africa-namibia-secures-historic-south-korea-sports-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-secures-historic-south-korea-sports-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia Secures Historic South Korea Sports Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Namibia has become the first African country to enter into an Olympic cooperation agreement with South Korea, opening new opportunities for athlete development and high-performance sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The Namibia National Olympic Committee and Commonwealth Games Association (NNOC-CGA) and the Korean Sport and Olympic Committee (KSOC) signed an agreement on Tuesday at the King Fahd Palace Hotel in Dakar, Senegal, on the sidelines of the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The agreement marks the first time the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia has become the first African country to enter into an Olympic cooperation agreement with South Korea, opening new opportunities for athlete development and high-performance sport. The Namibia National Olympic Committee and Commonwealth Games Association (NNOC-CGA) and the Korean Sport and Olympic Committee (KSOC) signed an agreement on Tuesday at the King Fahd Palace Hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7012,13203,6789,4706,724,257,10429,5069,254,7153,8045],"class_list":["post-249462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deal","tag-historic","tag-korea","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-secures","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-sports"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}