Interest in the Korea national soccer team is fading. According to the Korea Football Association ticketing platform "PlayKFA" on the 14th, as of 5:20 p.m. that day, the number of remaining seats for the friendly between the Korea national soccer team and Paraguay at Seoul World Cup Stadium was about 44,000. Considering the total capacity is 66,000, it means not even half has been filled.
Fan enthusiasm for the national team has cooled since the start of coach Hong Myung-bo's tenure. Starting with the first match against Palestine (59,000), attendance for the Kuwait match fell into the 40,000s. For the Brazil match during the Chuseok holiday, about 60,000 gathered, but the team suffered a 0-5 rout.
In response, online commenters said things like "Interest dropped after the Brazil match" and "Ticket prices are too expensive."
Seoul World Cup Stadium was a venue that sold out whenever the national team played just a few years ago. During Jürgen Klinsmann's tenure in Nov. 2023, tickets for the Singapore match sold out in a day, and the matches against Thailand and China were also at full capacity.