Jeju United is our local soccer team and they suck. I've yet to pay for a ticket to their games because if people had to pay, they would lose fans. This is especially sad when it costs 10 (or less) to see them play. Yesterday was the season opener for the team and the stadium was half full at best. The final score for their loss was 2-1, but really it should have been a tie. The first goal was scored about 60 minutes into the game when a Jeju United defender attempted to head a lofted centering kick out of bounds, but misdirected it into the goal. I don't understand why the other team celebrated someone else's goal, but I guess it takes skill to make some moron header an 'own goal'.

All the home games are played in the Seogwipo World Cup Stadium. I found out yesterday that it used to have an upper-deck during the 2002 World Cup, but since then, they have removed the extra seating (probably in hopes to make it look more full). What's even more sad about the history of the stadium is that all the matches scheduled for the only stadium on Jeju island were not even local teams that Koreans or Japanese wanted to see. The result was a half full stadium for games like Slovenia vs Paraguay. If having the World Cup spread out among 2 countries wasn't enough, they sent teams down to an island where fans who already spent thousands of dollars getting to the far east wouldn't want to chuck up another 180 dollars to see preliminary rounds.

The only redeeming qualities of the World Cup stadium in Seogwipo are the movie theater and saunas. I wish I could say the ballpark food makes up for the pathetic sports team (even more agonizing to watch than the Golden State Warriors), but it seems they even lack the funds to have warm hot dogs.