{"id":534,"date":"2010-06-14T01:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T01:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/?p=534"},"modified":"2014-08-27T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T18:47:47","slug":"korean-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/korean-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there\u2019s been a buzz among Koreans for Korea\u2019s recent victory against Greece. The man on everyone\u2019s tongue is Park Ji-Sung (<strong>\ubc15\uc9c0\uc131<\/strong>), the captain of the Korean soccer team.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, here are some other players that have received attention for one reason or another :<\/p>\n<p>Kim Nam-il (<strong>\uae40\ub0a8\uc77c<\/strong>) The player that gets a lot of press, both good and negative is Kim Nam-il. His nickname is \u201cThe Vacuum Cleaner\u201d because he manages to keep his zone free of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Chung-Yong (<strong>\uc774\uccad\uc6a9<\/strong>) is probably one of the more low-key players, in terms of press publicity. He\u2019s been signed by the Bolton Wanderers. For a Korean soccer player to play for a British club is considered \u201cmaking it big\u201d in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Ahn Jung-Hwan (<strong>\uc548\uc815\ud658<\/strong>) Besides Park Ji-sung, Ahn is probably the next Korean fan favorite. Fans swoon over his good looks, and he\u2019s been the spokes model for many endorsement deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there\u2019s been a buzz among Koreans for Korea\u2019s recent victory against Greece. The man on everyone\u2019s tongue is Park Ji-Sung (\ubc15\uc9c0\uc131), the captain of the Korean soccer team. Of course, here are some other players that have received attention for one reason or another : Kim Nam-il (\uae40\ub0a8\uc77c) The player that gets a lot&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/korean-soccer\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9460],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-korean-soccer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}