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. [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The opening match of the 2020 South Korean football season last week drew millions of viewers around the world on its social media platforms, the league office said Tuesday. The Korea Professional Football League (K League) said the K League 1 showdown between Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Suwon Samsung [...]
JEONJU, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s been a long time coming, but professional football is finally here in South Korea. Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors hosted Suwon Samsung Bluewings before some 42,000 empty seats at Jeonju World Cup Stadium in Jeonju, 240 kilometers south of Seoul, to kick off the 2020 K League 1 season. The [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top-flight professional football matches will be broadcast live in 17 countries in 2020, the league office said Thursday. On the eve of the start of the new season, the Korea Professional Football League (K League) said its matches will be available to viewers in the following countries: [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean football league announced Wednesday it will stream its upcoming season-opening match live on YouTube and Twitter, complete with English-language commentary for international viewers. The Korea Professional Football League (K League) said the 2020 K League 1 opening contest on Friday between Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Suwon [...]