The Korean Football Podcast
The Korean Football Podcast
Podcast Description
🇰🇷⚽️🗣️ Providing depth and context to the most relevant topics in the world of Korean football. FairPoint was first founded as a podcast in Korean in March 2019 by Steve Han, Jean Min Lee, and Ryan Wi.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a variety of themes related to Korean football, including player performances, match analyses, and national team news. Specific episodes include previews of AFC qualifiers, reviews of Korean players abroad, and discussions on coaching strategies, with recent topics centering on the expectations for upcoming matches against Iraq and Kuwait and the performance of players like Son Heung-min in European leagues.
🇰🇷⚽️🗣️ Providing depth and context to the most relevant topics in the world of Korean football. FairPoint was first founded as a podcast in Korean in March 2019 by Steve Han, Jean Min Lee, and Ryan Wi.
FairPoint host Steve Han is joined by pioneering Asian football writer John Duerden, whose writing since the early 2000s has inspired generation of football fans across Asia. John has been telling stories of Asian and Korean football for three decades now.
An author of four books, John's journalistic work can be found in The Guardian, BBC, ESPN, World Soccer, and AP just to name a few. Also, check out his Substack, How Football Explains Asia. We connected with John to talk about the perennially tumultuous state of Korean football.
(3:32) John's relationship with Korea
(7:45) Korea under Hong Myung-bo
(11:16) Japan, the best team in Asia?
(15:53) How has Korean football changed?
(20:26) The KFA mess and Korean football's deeper issues
(26:47) ”The KFA is the product of Korean culture”
(33:48) Does Korean football ”deserve” success?
(38:02) Hope for Korean football beyond the World Cup
Links to John Duerden's work
How Football Explains Asia via Substack: https://howfootballexplainsasia.substack.com/
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnduerden
X / Twitter: https://x.com/JohnnyDuerden
FairPoint
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fairpointfootball
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairpointfootball/
Steve Han
Portfolio: https://linktr.ee/realstevescores
X / Twitter: https://x.com/realstevescores
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