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Picture of the Day: Japan Women’s World Cup Champion

» by July 18th, 2011 at 12:49 pm » Comments (31)

Congratulations to the Japanese women's World Cup soccer team.  Definitely a great win for their team and hopefully it will be something to further inspire their country as they continue ...more »

North Korea Uses Unusual Excuse To Explain Soccer Loss to the US

» by June 29th, 2011 at 11:04 am » Comments (4)

Just like with anything coming from North Korea who knows if this is true or not? North Korea's coach blamed his side's 2-0 loss to the United States on his ...more »

Picture of the Day: Park Ji-Sung With English Premier League Trophy

» by May 24th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="Manchester United's Park Ji-Sung lifts the English Premier League trophy following their match against Blackpool at Old Trafford, northern England on Monday. /Yonhap-Reuters"][/caption] more »

What I Like About Korea: #20 – The Korean National Soccer Team

» by February 11th, 2011 at 3:14 am » Comments (10)

The Korean National soccer team is really entertaining to watch. I never watched soccer until I came to Korea, but I'll watch these guys because of the passion ...more »

North Korean Soccer World Cup Coach Punished With Forced Labor

» by August 4th, 2010 at 3:19 am » Comments (10)

Like any report coming out of North Korea who knows how true this is, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was in fact true: North Korea's football manager has ...more »

Korean Soccer Player Commits “World’s Dumbest Penalty”

» by August 1st, 2010 at 5:11 pm » Comments (4)

Can I get a big "Aigo!" for this: High profile handballs are trendy right now. Starting with Thierry Henry's against Ireland last year and peaking with Luis Suarez's goal-saving ...more »

Japan Eliminated from World Cup After 5-3 Penalty Kick Loss to Paraguay

» by June 29th, 2010 at 9:50 am » Comments (7)

Even though Japan's loss to Paraguay in penalty kicks eliminates the last Asian teamfrom the World Cup I'm sure the vast majority of Koreans were happy with the result.  It ...more »

United States Eliminated from World Cup After 2-1 Loss to Ghana

» by June 26th, 2010 at 2:27 pm » Comments (7)

Good luck to Ghana because they played a great game and deserved to win.  Is it just me or is Tim Howard overrated? I guess I will have to cheer on ...more »

South Korea Knocked Out of World Cup After 2-1 Loss to Uruguay

» by June 26th, 2010 at 9:00 am » Comments (3)

It was a good run while it lasted for the South Korean World Cup team, but they just played too little defense to able to advance against a good team ...more »

1954 South Korean Soccer Team Picked As Worst World Cup Team In History

» by June 26th, 2010 at 3:00 am » Comments (9)

Yesterday's blow out of North Korea by the Ivory Coast got me thinking if the North Koreans were the worst World Cup team ever and interestingly enough CNNSI recently had ...more »

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