Gwangju FC
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Oct 7, 2026
K League's Military Sides, The Future of Sangmu, Korea's Asian Games Gold & Fallout
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6:38Matthew BinnsHOST
The- their first season playing professionally was, uh, the 2003 season, and it was in Gwangju for 10 seasons and then moved to Sangju, and Gwangju chose to set up its own citizen team.
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6:53Matthew BinnsHOST
So the Gwangju FC you see today is not actually linked to, uh, the previous army side.
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6:59Matthew BinnsHOST
And one of the reasons behind that is the, the army side also acted as a bit of, um, a bit of a teaser, uh, for those citizen, uh, potential citizen clubs.
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7:09Matthew BinnsHOST
At the time, when you think back to 2003, citizen clubs were just coming into, um, fruition really.