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Yonhap tells us that Gwangju will have a new professional soccer team for 2011.
Gwangju FC, the 16th club in South Korea's K-League football, got off the ground with a launching ceremony here in the southern part of the country on Thursday.
At a ceremony attended by Gwangju Mayor Kang Wun-tae and Korea Football Association (KFA) Chairman Cho Chung-yun plus some 2,000 residents, the team's emblem was unveiled for the first time, as players vowed to play hard for their fans.
Gwangju FC will be run on civic funds. About 20,000 people, including Celtic FC midfielder Ki Sung-yueng and LPGA Tour golfer Shin Ji-yai, raised 1.5 billion won (US$1.3 million) to cover the team's operating costs.
광주시민프로축구단 will round out the K-League to 16 teams, and will play at Gwangju's World Cup Stadium starting in March. Gwangju Sangmu FC will move to Sangju, leaving Gwangju FC and Gwangyang's Chunnam Dragons as the two Jeollanam-do teams. Check the Gwangju FC official site later for schedules and ticket information.
3 comments:
You have been gone from Korea for nearly a year now. Yet, you are still actively maintaining your blog about Korea. So, call me crazy, but maybe, you should consider coming back to Korea.
I continue to maintain the blog---at clearly a reduced capacity---because
(1) it provides a fulfilling connection to the place where I lived for 4.5 years, and
(2) it serves a purpose that to my knowledge other blogs don't. I don't cover every news story, but I do try and provide information on happenings in Jeollanam-do and in the local English teacher community, and I don't know of any other blogs that provide quite the same coverage as I do.
I wrote earlier that I left to get settled in married life in the US, and that's what I've done and am doing. But blogging about Pittsburgh would be hackneyed for readers and unfulfilling for me, so for the time being I'll keep on about Jeollanam-do. Begging your pardon.
Some people seem to have this weird idea (not Daniel necessarily) that once you move away from a city, you should forget you ever lived there. Lived in Seattle for 4 years and still have friends there. Hey, I still follow Seattle news and Seattle bloggers. I lived in Seoul for four years and still have friends there. Hey, I still follow Korean news and Korean bloggers.
But I have a great life here in Toronto and have no desire to return to Korea or Seattle, except on vacation.
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