SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting this year, professional football league players will be entitled to reject transfers to a different football club even if the annual wage offered is better than at their previous club if other conditions, such as the period of the contract, work against them, the antitrust regulator said Monday. [...]
IMSIL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A dog from Imsil County, North Jeolla Province is gaining attention after ‘discovering’ its talent in football. Leo is a pet dog owned by Shin Hyeon-hwak, a government employee at the Imsil County Office. Leo was an abandoned dog. According to Shin, Leo was found during the monsoon season [...]
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Bybit, one of the fastest growing cryptocurrency exchanges with operations around the world, is the new global main sponsor of the Argentina national football teams, including the men’s international football side captained by Lionel Messi. Through this two-years agreement, Bybit’s brand will have maximum visibility in all Argentine [...]
CHICAGO, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — College football is back in full swing and Modelo, the beer brewed for those with The Fighting Spirit™, is rewarding passionate fans across the country with a brand-new offering. To ensure all fans have a cold beer for game day Saturdays, Modelo is unveiling the Unlockzie, a free beer [...]
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 [...]