SEOUL, May 7 — South Korea’s K League will have a profile it has never enjoyed before when the delayed 2020 season kicks off in Jeonju tomorrow, providing top-flight soccer action to a world starved of live sport. Defending champions Jeonbuk Motors open the season when they host Korean FA Cup...
Defending champions Jeonbuk Motors open the season when they host Korean FA Cup holders Suwon Bluewings at the Jeonju World Cup Stadium in a fixture put back more than two months by the coronavirus outbreak. — AFP pic
With the baseball season having started on Tuesday, South Korea is well aware that it is blazing a trail for nations returning to normality after the coronavirus shutdown. “About a week ago, we decided to get everyone, players and coaching staff, tested for the coronavirus so that there will be little or no risk of infection even if there’s contact,” Lee Jong-kwoun, the K League’s head of communication, told Reuters on Thursday.
The attention the K League is receiving by getting players back on the pitch while other leagues remain in furlough has, however, helped make up for a lack of revenue from ticket sales.
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