The Categorical & Star reported earlier this yr that planning was underway for a primary ever pre-season journey to South Korea – and now the membership has confirmed Julen Lopetegui’s males will head to Asia in late July.
The membership’s most up-to-date worldwide tour noticed them journey to China in 2019 for the Premier League Asia Trophy, the place they got here out on high beating Newcastle and Man Metropolis in Shanghai.
In a press release, the membership defined that journey can be ‘essentially the most commercially profitable pre-season tour within the membership’s historical past’, with Wolves set to face Celtic and AS Roma.
Russell Jones, Wolves’ common supervisor of selling and industrial development mentioned: “South Korea is a key marketplace for us and there was vital fan development there because the arrival of Hee Chan Hwang in 2021, with an enormous spike in curiosity in Wolves from the general public, media and soccer followers alike.
“Over the past two years we now have launched native language social media channels and retail traces to assist the brand new curiosity in South Korea, and we’re actually trying ahead to assembly and fascinating with our Asian followers in particular person this summer time and studying and celebrating Korean tradition.”
Wolves’ first match of the tour can be within the Suwon World Cup Stadium on July 26 towards Celtic, with the Roma conflict happening on July 29 within the Incheon Asiad Stadium. Each matches will kick off at 8pm native time and can be broadcast on Wolves TV.
Wolves ahead Hwang, who starred for his nation within the 2022 World Cup, is happy to be heading to his homeland alongside his membership workforce mates.
He added: “South Korea is a wonderful nation, with unbelievable individuals, tradition, meals and historical past, and I’m very excited to return dwelling this summer time alongside my Wolves teammates and introduce them to my nation.
“It’s an honour for me to journey to Korea with my workforce Wolves, I look ahead to introducing my teammates and workers on the membership to the passionate Korean soccer followers of Incheon, Suwon and from all throughout the nation.”
The tour has been organised along with Stadium X/USG, a consortium that was shaped with a concentrate on getting Korean nationwide workforce gamers to return to their dwelling international locations alongside their membership workforce mates..
Tour director Jaehyung AHN added: “Jaehyung AHN, a tour director and the CEO of USG mentioned: “South Korean soccer is getting the popularity at a world degree. An increasing number of of our stars are taking part in within the varied European soccer leagues and as an organisation and a proud supporter of South Korean soccer, we wish to do our half in getting much more consciousness on the market.
“The European groups and followers have embraced Hee Chan Hwang and Oh Hyeon Gyu and we wish to invite their golf equipment to go to South Korea in order that we may help our soccer heroes give their golf equipment an equally huge welcome. And in doing so, we additionally hope we may help extra of the world see and love the wonder and tradition of South Korea.”