SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean football league announced on Tuesday it will launch a new media platform to provide content in English for international markets. The Korea Professional Football League (K League), in partnership with the global sports services provider Sportsradar, has developed the new over-the-top (OTT) platform called “K League [...]
MOSCOW, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — “Uniting friends – uniting the world” – slogan of Gazprom’s Football for Friendship. Participants of the programme are Young Players and Journalists aged 10-16. FIFA, UEFA, national football associations, and the world’s leading clubs support the programme. Roberto Carlos, World Cup and UCL Winner, is the programme’s Global Ambassador. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — With social distancing rules during the coronavirus pandemic eased across the nation, the top baseball league here will reopen stadium gates on Tuesday. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) made the announcement on Sunday, hours after the government decided to lower the level of social distancing restrictions from Level 2 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea may travel to Europe for men’s football friendlies during an international match window in November, a national team official said Saturday. Because of travel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, the South Korean men’s national football team hasn’t played an official match in 2020. An official with the [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The winning rate of home teams has fallen by about 10 percentage points in the 2020 season of the nation’s professional football league, which is now underway without spectators due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. After 13 rounds in the top-division K League 1 and 12 rounds in [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball and football leagues welcomed the government’s green light on Friday to open stadiums to fans during the coronavirus pandemic, saying their teams are prepared to execute their plan as early as the weekend. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters led by Prime Minister Chung [...]
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Today sees the premiere of a short film project by IWC Schaffhausen, titled: “Born of a Dream: A boy from San Mateo.” The short film depicts IWC brand ambassador Tom Brady, one of the most accomplished professional athletes of all time, as he pursues his childhood dream and [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube videos of people playing football from a player’s standpoint are going viral among football fans as the coronavirus is forcing people away from the sport. The videos offer an enjoyable experience to football enthusiasts as if they are actually playing on the field. Searching for ‘first-person football player’ [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean football club FC Seoul were slapped with a fine on Wednesday for putting sex dolls in the stands for a recent match. The Korea Professional Football League (K League) on Wednesday ordered FC Seoul to pay a fine of 100 million won (US$81,410) for their use of lifesize dolls [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Professional Football League (K League)’s crowdless matches, held to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, are becoming the new landscape of a common soccer game. The 2020 K League 1 season opener between Pohang Steelers and Busan IPark, held at the Pohang Steel Yard in Pohang, North [...]