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. [...]
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 [...]