BAYERN LIFE
BAYERN ARE SELF-CONFIDENT , BUT NEVER ARROGANT . IMPRESSIVE ! began to learn German and took a language course in Bonn . ” I ‘ m now studying German literature , and that has everything to do with FC Bayern ,“ she says , as if it were the most normal thing in the world .
A boom thanks to Minjae
Football is a true national sport in South Korea and is roughly on a par with baseball in the popularity rankings . Koreans probably first encountered the round leather ball at the end of the 19th century , when British soldiers from the Royal Navy passed the time with a game of football during a stopover at Incheon harbour . A professional football league , now known as the ” K League “, only developed in the early 1980s . Most of the clubs were factory teams of Korean companies such as Kookmin Bank , Daewoo and Posco . The national team has been supervised by European coaches for a long time . Dutchman Guus Hiddink led South Korea to the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup on home soil , where they were knocked out by Germany and an inspired Oliver Kahn . Later , Uli Stielike and Jürgen Klinsmann also coached the national team . Korean sports bars have mainly been showing Premier League matches since the celebrated national hero Heung-min Son started playing there . FC Bayern can now also benefit from a similar boom thanks to Minjae . Since the centre-back ‘ s move to Munich in 2023 , public television has been broadcasting more and more Bayern matches . In January 2024 , he was voted Player of the Year by the Korean Football Association . Kim ‘ s popularity is also reflected in FC Bayern ‘ s membership figures : around 1,000 Koreans joined the German record champions in the 2023 / 24 season . The Red Light Korea fans come from all over the country . Many live in the Seoul metropolitan area but cofounder Kay , for example , lives in the north , not far from the border with North Korea . Her workplace is surrounded by several army bases . Because the members are dotted around the country and the time difference to
Ji-hong and Young-eun are also good friends outside of the fan club .
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