K League Salaries & Club Payrolls: An Analysis (2017)
A couple weeks ago, the K League released their salary information for the 2017 season, allowing us to see how much clubs are paying their […]
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17 for 2017: The Game of Their Lives – South Korean Women Triumph in Pyongyang
Yoon Deok-yeo has been managing the South Korean women’s national team for 4 years. In a national team set-up that feeds off of the crumbs […]
Korean Players Transferring to Europe Diminishing: Are Poor Career Choices Affecting the KNT?
Throughout the recent international break, in between sweating at Kim Seung-gyu’s flappy hands, scratching my head at Jung Woo-young’s passing, and wondering what Yang Dong-hyun […]
Heart attack in Tashkent: Korea crosses the finish line for World Cup Qualification [update]
There’s a mixture of emotions in Tashkent tonight – knowing full well that there is everything to play for in this final match in the […]
The Jeonbuk Influence
Last week, 16 of the 26 call-ups of the Korean national team for the senior squad’s key World Cup qualifiers against Iran and Uzbekistan made […]
Fantasy Draft XI: Korean World Cup Teams of the 21st Century
All this latest talk about the World Cup and whether we’re going to qualify or not (I suspect we will – Uzbekistan are professional chokers […]
The Naiveté of a Pan-Korean 2030 World Cup
Why South Korea’s proposal to host the 2030 World Cup with North Korea, China and Japan smacks of ideological desperation, selective ignorance and near-sighted daftness […]
Why I Hope Korea Fails to Qualify for Russia 2018
Following last night’s 0-1 loss to China, I tweeted out that part of me hoped that Korea would fail to qualify for Russia 2018 in […]
Who Is: Uzbekistan
We’ve got a lot of exciting posts up ahead, including a recap of the Suwon Continental Cup that saw Lee Seungwoo light up the competition(!!!), […]
Who Is: Canada – Q&A Preview
I would be amiss to not address the elephant in the room. The Tavern is not an apolitical place – it so happens sometimes that […]