PA Sport, a sports news and information provider, will be providing Eclat Entertainment with its Actim-branded, real-time player and team statistics during all English Premier League games.
With the recent transfer of Korean player Ji-Sung Park to Manchester United, interest in Premier League football is said to have risen to unprecendented levels in the country.
Eclat Entertainment, which provides SMS and WAP services as well as live streaming of football, basketball and baseball footage, will market its football service via two of Korea’s largest mobile carriers, SK Telecom & KT FreeTel.
All data supplied to Eclat will be collected by PA Sport correspondents direct from the grounds and transmitted from the company’s operations centre in the UK. PA Sport will commercially manage the Eclat partnership from its Hong Kong-based regional headquarters.
Chris Buckley, managing director of PA Sport, said: “English Premier League content for mobile continues to be a big driver for our business in Asia.
"We are now providing multi-format services to customers in several Asian countries, delivering data feeds in simplified Chinese, Japanese and Thai as well as English.”
