SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. held a special event during a K League 1 match at Jeonju World Cup Stadium between Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Jeju United on Saturday, in which players entered the arena with canine blood donors. It was the first time for players at a South Korean football [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Ulsan Hyundai FC, owned by major South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., released on Thursday the club’s official pictorial of Martin Ádám, the team’s new striker from Hungary. The club held the photo shoot at Hyundai Heavy’s headquarters in the southeastern city of Ulsan after Ádám came to [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As elated as he was to win the Premier League Golden Boot this past season, Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min says sharing the joy with his supportive teammates made the experience even more special. In a corporate event held in Seoul on Monday, the South Korean superstar shared some of [...]
PAJU, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea began preparations for a quartet of men’s football friendly matches in June with an open training session on Monday, the first of its kind during the COVID-19 pandemic. Head coach Paulo Bento gathered his 28-man squad at the National Football Center (NFC) in Paju, north of Seoul [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Brazilian national football team, visiting Seoul since Thursday for a friendly match with South Korea on June 2, set out on a country tour on the weekend. 25 members of the Brazilian team visited the Everland amusement park in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province on Saturday. Social media posts showed [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting this weekend, fans attending South Korean professional baseball games and football games will be able to party like it’s 2019 again. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Friday the two-year ban on vocal cheering at ballparks will be lifted, effective immediately. The Korea Professional Football League (K League) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — In this year’s K League 1, South Korea’s top professional football competition, controversy over ball boys and girls deliberately engaging in acts to delay the football match are expected to dissipate as they will no longer be delivering balls to the players directly. The Korea Professional Football League (K [...]
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 [...]