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Events Women's Golf

The Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association has announced its LPGA of Korea Tour schedule for 2021, its largest yet with 31 events and total prize money of KRW28bn (€21m/$25m), its highest total e…
Media Football

South Korean football's K League has reported significant increases in audiences for its digital content in 2020 compared to the previous season
Governance Football

The Korea Football Association, the governing body of football in South Korea, has named Chung Mong-gyu, as its new president
Governance Football

Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings chairman Kwon Oh-gap has been reappointed as president of the K League, the Korea Professional Football League, for another four-year term
Events Multi-sports

Due to a spike of Covid-19 cases in South Korea the ITTF has cancelled the 2020 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships
Media Football

The sale of broadcast rights to Uefa club competitions during the 2021-24 cycle has begun in four Asian territories, including Korea
Media Golf

South Korean broadcaster JTBC Plus has built on its association with global media group Discovery by signing an agreement to form a joint venture to further develop golf in the country
Attendance AFL

The first Grand Slam of 2021 could be delayed by one or two weeks from the scheduled January 18 start, due to Covid-19
Governance Baseball

From next year South Korean baseball clubs will be permitted to reduce player’s pay if the season is disrupted by extraordinary events.

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Virtual backdrops and ‘watch together’ social media services are in focus as sport returns behind closed doors.
Baseball
Events

Korea’s football and baseball leagues have published detailed guidelines governing their resumptions this week.
Golf
Events

The LPGA once worried about the dominance of South Korean players in the women’s game. Now it embraces them as a means of driving the sport’s regional and global popularity. John Duerden finds out more.
Table Tennis
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With its biggest market at the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic, table tennis is one of the sports most affected
Attendance Basketball

There were contrasting fortunes in the last 24 hours for the reopening of two major Asia-Pacific sports markets, with Australia reported to be expecting the world's biggest crowd since the pandemic began…
Events Winter Sports

South Korea has made its first formal proposal to North Korea to co-host the 2024 winter Youth Olympic Games
Attendance Football

The Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee is actively trying to involve more disabled people in benefiting from the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games – China.o
Sponsorship & Marketing Women's Golf

The upcoming KLPGA Hana Financial Group Championship in South Korea will also act as the inaugural tournament of the new Ladies Asian Tour series organised by the Asian Golf Leaders Forum
Events Basketball

Two torches that will be used in the Olympic and Paralympic torch relays at the postponed Tokyo Games next summer have started an eight-month tour of Tokyo
Governance Taekwondo

World Taekwondo, the sport’s international federation, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with city authorities to relocate its headquarters to South Korea’s Goyang City.
Sponsorship & Marketing Golf

South Korean consumer electronics company LG has agreed a three-year tournament deal with the Korea Professional Golfers Association
Events Athletics

The Australian Institute of Sport is to provide funding of more than A$115m ($82.1m/€69.7
Governance Multi-Sport

Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of electronics giant Samsung and an honorary International Olympic Committee member, has died at the age of 78
Events Multi-Sport

US and UK authorities have accused Russia of conducting the “most disruptive and destructive” series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group in wide-ranging charges that include the 2018 and…
Fan Engagement Baseball

The South Korean government is permitting a limited number of fans back into baseball and football stadiums after social distancing restrictions in the country were lifted
Media Sailing

A raft of broadcast rights contracts signed for sailing’s 36th America’s Cup include deals with both public-service and pay-television broadcasters in Italy and the UK, as a priority is placed on maximum exp…
Media Football

Bundesliga International, the league’s international commercial rights arm, has signed off on new broadcast deals in Singapore, South Korea and Thailand ahead of the start of the 2020-21 season on Friday.
Events Cricket

Chinese streaming platform PP Sports is going to sue the English Premier League over the termination of their media-rights contract for the 2019-20 to 2021-22 cycle, according to Chinese news service Beijing…
Sponsorship & Marketing Volleyball

Global sportswear brand Fila has signed an agreement to sponsor the Korea Volleyball Federation
Governance Multi-sports

South Korea’s government is committing KRW1.74tn ($1.47bn/€1.22bn) to next year’s budget to help the sports sector recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. T
Events Basketball

The Korean Basketball League has been forced to postpone its planned 2019-20 season decider due to a second Covid-19 outbreak, with the October start of the 2020-21 season also under threat
Events Basketball

The former US ambassador to Singapore Kirk Wagar has resigned from the board of Axington, a firm linked to Bellagraph Nova Group, the company claiming to be bidding for English football club Newcastle…
Events Baseball

Chinese police, working with the US Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group, seized more than 120,000 counterfeit golf products in raids of online golf retailers in four cities
Events

Indian retailer Future Group has pulled out of its sponsorship of the Indian Premier League. The company is suffering financial problems linked to Covid-19
Attendance Baseball

A fresh wave of Covid-19 cases means the South Korean baseball league is now forced to play behind closed doors, with the league now prioritising the completion of the season
Governance Football

The Korean K League's board of directors has recommended cuts to player salaries to ease the financial burden on clubs during the Covid-19 period
Events Baseball

A survey of 13,000 Japanese companies has found that more than half want next year's Tokyo Olympics to be either cancelled or postponed again - Kyodo News
Events Basketball

New pan-regional club basketball league the East Asia Super League has secured the backing of world governing body Fiba in a 10-year deal