South Korea’s tickets for a rare match against a visiting North Korean team sold out in half a day, Seoul’s soccer association said Friday.
All 7,087 tickets for the May 20 match between home team Suwon FC Women and Naegohyang Women’s FC were snapped up within about 12 hours of going on sale on Tuesday, an official from the Korea Football Association said.
The two sides meet in the semi-finals of the Asian Women’s Champions League in the city of Suwon, about 20 miles (35km) south of Seoul.
It will be the first time a sports team from the isolated and nuclear-armed North Korea has played in the neighboring South since 2018.
The two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-53 conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
As the Champions League is a club competition, national flags and anthems will not be used during matches, local reports said.
