SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Sitting only one point above last place in the top South Korean football league, Daegu FC named veteran tactician Park Chang-hyeon as their new head coach Tuesday. Park, 57, replaces Choi Won-kwon, who stepped down last week to take the fall for the club’s sluggish start. Park, who had [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Having bagged a crucial win at home, South Korean champions Ulsan HD FC will now visit Japanese foes Yokohama F. Marinos this week as they chase their first Asian club football title in four years. Ulsan and Yokohama will square off in the second leg of the semifinals of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –In an incident that has recently come to light, fans of the K-League, amidst the league’s ongoing box-office success with record-breaking attendance figures, performed emergency first aid to save a fellow passenger who collapsed on a train. This act of heroism took place on the Airport Railroad, as fans [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With the new season of South Korean professional football kicking off this week, Ulsan HD FC will try to accomplish something that has only been done by two other clubs in league history: win three consecutive titles. Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma, currently Seongnam FC, pulled off two different sets of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean football rivals will square off this week to begin the knockout stage of the top Asian club tournament, with another team from the country taking on a Japanese foe with an eye on the last eight. Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors will host Pohang Steelers at 7 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Professional Football League (K League) announced Friday it will open an exhibition in Seoul celebrating its 40th anniversary. Titled “K League: The Universe,” the exhibition will run from Dec. 22 to Jan. 31 at Yeongdeungpo Art Square in western Seoul. The show will stay open from 11 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeongnam FC eliminated Bucheon FC 1995 in a playoff match in South Korean football’s second division Wednesday, staying alive in their bid to earn a promotion to the top competition next year. The two clubs had a goalless draw in the first playoff match in the K League 2 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s professional football league, the ‘K-League,’ has undertaken an eco-friendly initiative by publishing a groundbreaking report that measures the greenhouse gas emissions of each professional team. This marks the first such endeavor among domestic professional sports. The Korea Professional Football League (KPFL) made the announcement during a regular briefing [...]
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. [...]