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[Woden]

I was hoping someone could advise me on how much football I can expect to see on Korean TV. Such as the amount of games that are shown live per week and whether there are highlights programmes, etc.

I support Spurs so I was hoping we had some decent exposure over there, especially after Peace Cup couple of years back and Lee Young Pyo...is it all Man U and Chavski?

[eamo]

You will definitely see Man U and Spurs games. Quite a few other games that involve the top 5 teams. There's a leat one game on every Saturday night and often on Sunday.

Get Skylife and you can get Star Sports channel which gives Premiership games with English commentary.

[xenok]

don't forget Reading games as well since Seol plays for them (how much longer, who knows). Boro always has a korean player (Lee Dongguk) but a) he's a dick b) it doesn't look like he will ever get playing time, meaning Boro is probably the lowest in the totem pole.

if you are able to understand chinese (mandarin), i highly recommend watching the generic Star Sports Channel (not the one that comes with Sky but the one with regular cable) if you don't have a dish. there are two good reasons for this; the pre-game, halftime and post-game commentary and analysis is in english (most of them don't know what the heck they are talking about but the skinny tall australian, i think he's an aussie at least, and the bigger english guy seem to know their footie) are in english. the second reason is the chinese commentators are infinitely better than the korean ones. it's not just because they don't have a vested interest in the players, korean commentary basically fall into two groups, the first is shameless effusive praise for the korean player (e.g. what a great cross by Seol!) and the second is defensive lamentations regarding the mistakes of the korean player. it's really quite awful.