SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday that it will supply eco-friendly cars to FIFA for a successful 2022 Qatar World Cup. The South Korean carmake will send 446 passenger vehicles and 170 commercial vehicles, 236 of which are eco-friendly models, in promotion of a zero-carbon football championship. It will the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul has been selected as one of six global hosts of the FIFA Fan Festival, a public viewing event during the World Cup that will also feature live performances and other entertainment. FIFA announced Tuesday that Seoul will be joined by London, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo [...]
DOHA, Qatar, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Qatar Tourism reveals a menu of top international restaurants, cafés and cuisines for football fans and visitors to Qatar looking to indulge in a taste of home. For the thousands travelling to Doha for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, there is something to suit all palates as [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Two decades ago, the Dutch-born coach Guus Hiddink guided South Korea through an improbable march to the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup, then co-hosted by South Korea and Japan. But what if Hiddink had Son Heung-min, the reigning Premier League Golden Boot winner, on his team in 2002? [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Even after losing their first two matches at the FIFA World Cup in Russia, South Korea are somehow still alive in the tournament, with a chance to book a knockout spot by beating Germany in its Group F finale. In Group F, Mexico are the leaders with six points, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — With the Korean national soccer team falling to Sweden in its first match at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, analysts have noted that marketing efforts in the food and beverage industry, which usually plays up the international event, haven’t gained much traction this time around. Although larger issues [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Local convenience stores saw their sales jump as tens of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets to cheer on their national football team in the first game of its World Cup campaign, retailers here said Tuesday. BGF Retail Co., the operator of the country’s largest convenience store [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of South Koreans believe their national football team will fail to advance from the group stage of the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Russia, a poll showed Monday. In a survey of 500 South Koreans aged 19 or older by Realmeter, 54.7 percent said they didn’t [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea football coach Shin Tae-yong said Wednesday his team’s preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup are on track. South Korea will meet Germany, Sweden and Mexico in Group F at the World Cup in Russia, which is only about 50 days away. Shin admitted that they’re the underdogs but will not give up easily. “Frankly, none [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Former South Korea football coach Hong Myun-bo said Thursday he wants to see the national players’ “fangs” at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Hong, who now works as the general secretary at the Korea Football Association (KFA), said he hopes the national team shows its fighting spirit like a tiger, the animal that symbolizes South Korean football and is engraved on the KFA crest. “South Korea are characterized [...]