꽃보다 남자 Rugby in Boys over Flowers (Kkot-boda Namja), the most popular drama in Korea?

Recently, the most popular drama these days, Boys over Flowers (Kkot-boda Namja, 꽃보다 남자), helped to bring viewers back to watching dramas- over 30 % of all Korean households watching the drama. Its original work is Japanese manga (cartoon), and due to its popularity, it has been adapted into TV series by Taiwan, Japan, and most recently Korea.

In the drama, one of the main characters plays rugby as a part of "aristocratic" lessons to be a successor of a conglomerate (chaebol). Since the drama leads the latest fashion and trend in Korea, his rugby shirt was completely sold out soon after one of the 4 flowers (F4) wore on the drama.

Let's see if the drama fans will actually get into Rugby rather than his T-shirt.

How to find the new Seoul Touch pitch

http://touchtagrugby.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-find-new-touch-and-rugby-pitch.html

Big dates for Touch in Asia

25th April Hong Kong Inter-cities Invitation
20/21 June Asian Championships Bangkok
September International Touch Seoul
November Shanghai International

Korea in Asia 5 Nations rugby 2009

This years home games are April 25 (v Singapore) and May 9 (v Hong Kong). Venue is not yet decided but should be the same for Korea Rugby Union Presdients XV v England Counties XV on June 5 (Friday).
Last year, Kore finished a comfortable runner up in the competition and if you want to catch the highlights from 2008 check here http://www.espnstar.com/media-player/?goTo=http://publish.vx.roo.com/espnstar/flashmain/?vxTint=pink%3a3c537f%3bChannelMenuOver%3a505050%3bmain%3a505050&vxSiteId=1458d2e1-b8e3-4d73-8b76-e8420617f8b8&vxChannel=other%20sports&vxClipId=2168_ESSOOS_250908agvkor1&vxBitrate=300

Korea Touch season starts Feb 14

First run out for Touch in Seoul will be Feb 14 (how romantic is that?) assuming the weather stays good. So, the plan would be to play on Saturday 9:30-11:30 at Jamwon. Any questions post here or email seoultouch@gmail.com

First tournament of the season is rumoured to be set for mid-March...more on that later.

Where to watch six nations rugby in Korea

Scrooge in Itaewon is a big favourite
Waegook Cook in Gumi must show it
Which is your location of choice?

Yu Young-nam, the first Korean for Japan Top League Final

Young-nam (Dankook Uni-Sangmu-Sanyo) will be the first Korean player for the Japanese Top League final this year with the first record of playing all the consecutive 13 matches.

To have such the honor, he had to go through obstacles and biases toward Koreans in Japan and compete not only with Japanese players but Kiwis and Aussies as a foreign player.

The moment when he started overcoming such difficuties and winning recognition was the Asian Five Nations match against Japan.

(For the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKVhdctBp84

I am sure that he will be repesenting Korea at the A5N this year (Home games: April 25th Singapore/May 9th Hongkong) and hopefully for the match against England Counties (June 5th).
And I hope he gives his impressions of the final match to our blog visitors soon.

-2001 Korea U-19 team-

Please cheer for him to raise the Top-league trophy on Sunday!

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/02/05/2009020501722.html