{"id":23668,"date":"2020-08-06T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=23668"},"modified":"2020-08-06T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:55:42","slug":"fans-allowed-back-into-stadiums-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/08\/06\/fans-allowed-back-into-stadiums-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Allowed Back Into Stadiums in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After a long wait, football fans in South Korea were allowed back into stadiums for Matchday 14 of the K-League season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, football fans in South Korea were allowed to attend games in the stadiums to support their clubs.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20200803009100315?section=news\">this report by Yonhap News<\/a>, nearly 9,000 fans attended the K-League&#8217;s six fixtures over the weekend, as Jeonbuk Hyundai, Seongnam FC, Incheon United, Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Gangwon FC and Busan I Park played home matches.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets were only sold up to 10% of each stadium&#8217;s respective capacity, totaling 13,194 across all six grounds. Of those, only 8,984 (68.1%) were actually sold for last weekend&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u25aa K LEAGUE OPENS TO FANS<\/p>\n<p>Football&#8217;s K League opens stadiums to fans three months into season<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SouthKorea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SouthKorea<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/K_LEAGUE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#K_LEAGUE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OPEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OPEN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rT03ik851a\">pic.twitter.com\/rT03ik851a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arirang News (@arirangtvnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arirangtvnews\/status\/1289775163295199232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This also came with a host of new rules for fans to follow. Ticket sales were exclusively online and fans had to enter the stadium in an orderly and socially-distanced manner, checking in through QR code. Food and drink were banned from the stadium, and mask-wearing was required at all times.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the changes, the return of fans is a massive boost to the league and clubs. With the protocol for a safe return to stadiums now laid out, football supporters in other countries hope their leagues will follow suit as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long wait, football fans in South Korea were allowed back into stadiums for Matchday 14 of the K-League season. For the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, football fans in South Korea were allowed to attend games in the stadiums to support their clubs. According to this report by Yonhap News, nearly 9,000 fans attended the K-League&#8217;s six fixtures over the weekend, as Jeonbuk Hyundai, Seongnam FC, Incheon United, Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Gangwon FC and Busan I Park played home matches. Tickets were only sold up to 10% of each stadium&#8217;s respective capacity, totaling 13,194 across all six grounds. Of those, only 8,984 (68.1%) were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/08\/06\/fans-allowed-back-into-stadiums-in-south-korea\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Fans Allowed Back Into Stadiums in South Korea&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":23673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[867],"tags":[209,954,1269,95],"class_list":["post-23668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korea","tag-jeonbuk-hyundai","tag-k-league","tag-korea","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23674,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23668\/revisions\/23674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}