{"id":279692,"date":"2026-07-02T16:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=279692"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:11:21","slug":"south-korea-ex-head-coach-faces-korean-style-punishment-with-reported-shop-and-restaurant-bans-after-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/279692\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea ex-head coach faces \u2018Korean-style punishment\u2019 with reported shop and restaurant bans after World Cup exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>When South Korea&rsquo;s national football team lost to South Africa on Thursday, June 25, and crashed out of the group stage of the 2026 World Cup, head coach Hong Myung-bo resigned.<\/p>\n<p>The team&rsquo;s early exit sparked widespread criticism in the country, with President Lee Jae Myung calling for an investigation into the reasons behind the team&rsquo;s disappointing performance.<\/p>\n<p>However, the punishment for the ex-head coach did not end with his resignation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/39578039\/sacked-world-cup-manager-banned-shops-president-hong-myung-bo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sun<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No Entry!&rdquo;: restaurants and shops in South Korea began posting notices banning the former head coach from entering. And that is not all &mdash; threatening posts have also appeared online, including calls for Hong Myung-bo&rsquo;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea finished third in Group A following two losses to South Africa and Mexico &ndash; despite winning their opening match against the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When South Korea&rsquo;s national football team lost to South Africa on Thursday, June 25, and crashed out of the group stage of the 2026 World Cup, head coach Hong Myung-bo resigned. The team&rsquo;s early exit sparked widespread criticism in the country, with President Lee Jae Myung calling for an investigation into the reasons behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":279684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279693,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279692\/revisions\/279693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}