SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will face Northern Ireland in a pre-World Cup friendly football match in March, the national football governing body said Wednesday. The Korea Football Association (KFA) said the men’s national team, coached by Shin Tae-yong, will take on Northern Ireland at Windsor Park in Belfast on March 24. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 70 percent of South Koreans believe the men’s national football team needs to hire Dutch tactician Guus Hiddink for the FIFA World Cup next year, a survey showed Monday. In the survey of 505 adults conducted by Realmeter nationwide last week, 70.2 percent said that Hiddink should [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Having squandered a chance to qualify for the World Cup at home, South Korea now face a near must-win situation on the road next week. South Korea could have clinched their ninth consecutive World Cup berth with a win over Iran on Thursday at Seoul World Cup Stadium. But [...]
CHANGSHA, China, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Ten thousand Chinese police officers will be present at a football stadium here for security reasons when South Korea and China play their World Cup qualifying match this week, the national football governing body said Wednesday. The Korea Football Association (KFA) said the Chinese authorities have decided to [...]
BEIJING, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean embassy in Beijing has issued a safety warning to football fans planning to attend an upcoming World Cup qualifying match between the two countries, scheduled amid a wave of anti-Korean sentiment here over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system. According to sources privy to the [...]
JEONJU, South Korea, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeonju announced Thursday that it will be presenting “Drone Soccer”– a collaborative product between drone manufacturers and the city’s carbon industry. While the city sees drones as a potential growth industry of the future, the carbon industry has been the signature enterprise of Jeonju for the past [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea have reportedly appointed former Bundesliga top scorer Jorn Andersen to lead their national football team, Norwegian media reported on Wednesday (local time). According to Norway’s state broadcaster NRK, Andersen signed a one-year contract with North Korea. His family told NRK that the 53-year-old coach had been in the [...]
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2014 FIFA World Cup is being hailed as one of the greatest ever – both on and off the field. The tournament is dominating the social universe as one of the most talked about events on Twitter of all time with more than 300 million Tweets [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Romantic Sportism’ is apparently the watchword for new women’s fashion this spring. According to AK Mall, an online shopping mall, which examined purchase patterns by women in their 20s and 30s (2.4 million people), sporty-look items such as jeans and loafers gained popularity in recent three weeks [...]