The Korea Times
With the countdown to the FIFA World Cup having reached 30 days in Korea, fans will be waiting to see if their men's national football team will turn things around in time for the big tournament. Since the controversial and largely unpopular hiring of Hong Myung-bo as head coach in the summer of 2024, fans have been expressing their displeasure toward the Taegeuk Warriors. When they packed stadiums as they normally do for the men's international matches, they booed Hong mercilessly and held up signs calling for the resignation of Korea Football Association President Chung Mong-gyu. And then there were matches when fans simply didn't show up. On Oct. 14 last year, only 22,206 fans attended a friendly match against Paraguay at the 66,000-seat Seoul World Cup Stadium – the lowest number for a men's international match in 10 years. When Korea hosted Ghana on Nov. 18 at the same Seoul venue, 33,256 fans were on hand. Korea won both of those matches, sandwiching another victory over Bolivia on Nov. 14 in the central city of Daejeon before about 33,000 supporters, but didn't look very convin
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