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Chung Mong-gyu (Korean: 정몽규; born 1961) is a South Korean businessman.He is one of his country's top business leaders and chairman of HDC Group.Since 2013, he has served two consecutive terms as the 53rd president of the Korea Football Association (KFA).
Park Seung-bin was the first president of the KFA, charged with the task of promoting and spreading organised football in Korea. [2] The Korea Football Association was reinstated in 1948, following the establishment of the Republic of Korea. The KFA became a member of FIFA, the international football governing body that same year.
Choi served five terms as the president of the Korea Football Association, from 1979 to 1987. During his presidency, the K League was founded in 1983. He also founded and owned Hallelujah FC, the champions of the inaugural season of the K League. South Korea finished runners-up in the 1980 AFC Asian Cup, losing 3-0 in the final to host Kuwait.
Hong Myung-bo was appointed as South Korea's head coach on Sunday, giving one of the nation's 2002 World Cup stars a second chance at the top job. Hong succeeded Jurgen Klinsmann and returned to ...
Until the 1970s, South Korean football operated two major football leagues, the National Semi-professional Football League and the National University Football League, but these were not professional leagues in which footballers could focus on only football. In 1979, however, the Korea Football Association (KFA)'s president Choi Soon-young ...
The South Korea national football team (Korean: 대한민국 축구 국가대표팀; recognized as Korea Republic by FIFA [2]) represents South Korea in men's international football and is governed by the Korea Football Association, a member of FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). South Korea has emerged as a major football power in ...
This competition was originally one of major club competitions of South Korean football with Korean National Football Championship, but its status was undermined after the professional clubs appeared in South Korea according to the foundation of K League, the South Korean professional league. The tournament is usually held during the early ...
The Korean Football Association has filed an official complaint with FIFA over an alleged racist remark directed at Wolverhampton Wanderers forward Hwang Hee-chan during a recent preseason match ...