SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean professional sports leagues on Sunday welcomed the government decision to reopen stadiums to fans, albeit on a limited basis, and vowed to ensure safe experience for their fans. Baseball, football and golf have been in action since May during the coronavirus pandemic, but fans haven’t been able [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The MZ Generation that grew up with digital media are gaining interest in sports media content. They are a combination of the Millennials, born after the 1980s and experienced both in analog and digital culture, and the Z generation, born after the mid-1990s in a digital environment. The Korea [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Football and women’s basketball have a high percentage of family spectators, while men’s basketball and baseball are particularly popular among couples. According to a survey of 34,978 spectators of five professional sports and nine leagues by the Korean Professional Sports Association, the number of family visitors to football matches [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean sports industry couldn’t dodge the impact from the coronavirus after it decided to delay matches in all four major sports leagues. The Women’s Korean Basketball League (WKBL) assembled its board on Sunday and decided to shut down the league from March 10 to March 28. “We [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — If a volleyball player hits a spike, and no fan is around to witness it, does it make a sound? Imagine playing volleyball in an empty arena of 5,000 seats. It can be exactly as eerie and disorienting as it sounds. We’re not talking about some recreational match by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Queer Women’s Network, a women’s rights advocacy group for sexual minorities, hosted a women’s sexual minority athletic competition Sunday at KBS Sports World Hall 2 in Seoul. The “Queer Women Games” were first held last year with the aim of creating a culture in which women and sexual [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Men’s volleyball had the highest percentage of female fans among South Korean professional sports last year, a survey showed Friday. The Korea Professional Sports Association (KPSA) released findings of its study on fans in five professional sports leagues in the country: baseball, football, volleyball, basketball and golf. The survey [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Increasing numbers of South Korean women and senior citizens are participating in sports activities, a poll showed Wednesday. The poll of 9,000 people older than 10 nationwide by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism found that 62.2 percent regularly took part in more than one sports activity per [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog said Tuesday that it will launch a full-dress probe into human rights conditions in sports circles, which are under harsh criticism in the wake of sexual assault allegations raised by athletes earlier this month. “The National Human Rights Commission will create a special investigation [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday unveiled a set of measures to wipe out sexual assault and abuse in sports following a sex crime case involving an Olympic short track gold medalist. The sports ministry issued an apology and introduced measures to prevent and eliminate sexual misconduct in the country’s sports [...]