SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With their season on hold indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, South Korean professional football clubs stand to lose millions in revenues, data showed Tuesday. The Korea Professional Football League, or simply K League, said its 22 clubs — 12 in the top-flight K League 1 and 10 in [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s almost as if they’re operating in different countries. On one end, the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) is targeting an early May start to its regular season, after it was postponed from its original March 28 Opening Day because of the coronavirus outbreak. At the other end, the Korea [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean football federation announced Tuesday its main national team training center will house coronavirus patients starting this week. From Wednesday, the main building at the National Football Center (NFC) in Paju, north of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province, will be open for those with mild cases of COVID-19, [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court on Tuesday ruled in favor of local football fans who demanded compensation for football star Cristiano Ronaldo’s “no-show” incident in a much-awaited match last year. A sellout crowd of 65,000 filled the Seoul World Cup Stadium in July 2019 for an exhibition match between a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy sparked over a profile picture of South Korean football star Son Heung-min posted on Japan’s largest internet portal. Online football forums criticized the profile picture of Son posted on Yahoo Japan. Yahoo Japan’s profile of the Tottenham Hotspur’s attacking ace includes a picture of him tackling Everton’s Andre [...]
TONGYEONG, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Hang-seo, South Korean head coach of the Vietnamese men’s senior and under-23 (U-23) football teams, has brought the junior side to his native land for winter training this month. But it’ll be part training camp and part excursion. After Vietnam captured their first-ever gold medal at the Southeast [...]
INJE, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Gangwon Province’s Inje County will host a football championship on ice from January 18 to 23. The ice football championship will be held during the 2020 Inje Icefish Festival, inviting some 1,000 participants including both civilian and military teams. Players will compete for total prize money of 30 million [...]
HANOI, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Whatever Park Hang-seo is preaching to his players on the Vietnamese men’s national football teams, it’s working. The South Korean head coach for both the senior and the under-23 teams in Vietnam has reached heights that none of his predecessors did. Most recently, he led the U-23 squad to [...]
SANCHEONG, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Villagers in South Korea’s southeastern county of Sancheong have gone crazy over the news that the Vietnamese national football team, led by South Korean coach Park Hang-seo, won its first Southeast Asian Games football gold on Tuesday. Sancheong is the hometown of Park, who has become a national hero [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean coach Park Hang-seo’s fervor for his Vietnamese men’s national football team is moving the hearts of many fans in Vietnam. Park is leading his team at the 30th Southeast Asian Games currently underway in the Philippines. One Vietnamese media outlet reported that Park and his staff skipped [...]