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K-pop, K-drama, K-lit (or "K-literature" if you want to be decent), K-beauty... things that start with K are pretty popular these days[.]() But can any of them really compare with K League?
Contents:

• Why watch
• 2020 season recap
• The off-season
  • AFC Champions League
  • Club World Cup
  • Transfers
• Matchday 1
• How to follow

Why watch

Here comes the marketing spiel. If you follow K League, you'll get throw-ins like THIS, headers like THIS, and epic knee-slides like THIS. Are you not entertained?
The best practical reason for following it is that you can get live football at a time of day when there's not much other football on - afternoons in East Asia, mornings in UK and Europe, and evenings or nights in the Americas. It's also a summer league, so you'll never have to go without club football from ~June-August again.
The highly scientific and not-at-all-questionable IFFHS rankings also has K League as the best league in Asia by quite some bit, and the 20th best league in the world. If the 20th best league sounds like something you might be interested in, carry on reading. If not, also carry on reading.

2020 season recap

I started writing a separate 2020 season recap, but I didn't get past a gif of Jesse Pinkman shouting "He can't keep getting away with it!", where in this case "he" is Jeonbuk and "it" is winning the league. However, I've now some time to compose myself, so here goes my mini summary.
First some "best of" videos

• [Best backheel]()
• [Best volley]()
• Best hug https://www.instagram.com/p/CASZ4EmBbbV/?igshid=16dfhmn1ubvdv
• Best assault https://www.instagram.com/p/CASYdCGBX0y/?igshid=11omtuzrsli8a

The reason I wanted to scream like Jesse is that Jeonbuk just weren't that good - they regularly dropped points to teams in the lower half of the table, scraped wins, and played most of the season without a competent striker. This feeling that Jeonbuk were a bit pants was verified when Jeonbuk were knocked out of the Champions League at the group stage for the first time in ages. So why couldn't anyone take advantage of that?
The answer lies in Ulsan. Ulsan lost out on the 2019 league title on the tiebreaker of a single goal scored, and there was real determination to get it done in 2020. In 2020 Ulsan were great. They spent the majority of the season at the top of the table, were crowned champions of Asia in an unbeaten run, and only lost to two teams all year. Unfortunately, one of those teams was Jeonbuk, and they lost to them three times in the league. If Ulsan could have just drawn ONCE, they would have won their first league title since 2005. But they didn't. They came runner-up, trailing Jeonbuk by 3 points. To rub salt into the wound, they also lost to Jeonbuk in the FA Cup final the week after the league finished.
As for everyone else, in order of finishing:

• Pohang were good but not good enough. They did score the most goals out of everyone though.
• Sangju Sangmu got their highest finish ever, and could have got Champions League football for 2021 if it weren't for them technically disbanding at the end of 2020 and reforming anew as Gimcheon Sangmu.
• Daegu sneaked into a Champions League spot, in what will be their second appearance following their 2019 debut.
• Gwangju exceeded all expectations
• Gangwon didn't meet expectations, but they did the double over Jeonbuk which makes them absolute heroes in my book.
• Suwon Bluewings were terrible until they sacked their moron of a manager, and when the replacement was finally hired they looked quite good.
• FC Seoul went through one manager and two or three caretakers and looked rubbish under all of them.
• Seongnam almost threw it away in the final run of games but held on and deservedly stayed up for another year.
• Incheon were considered relegated by most halfway through the season - because they hadn't even won a single game by then - so the fact that they weren't come the end of the season is a miracle.
• Busan were kind of meh all season, and when relegation looked possible their manager simply gave up and resigned instead of sticking around to fight it out. They got relegated.

From K League 2 Jeju bounce back after just one year, possibly thanks to promotion specialist Nam Ki-il, and Suwon FC won promotion with literally the last kick of the season to ensure we'll see a Suwon Derby again in 2021.
Also since it was the "big thing" in 2020, I'll give a small mention to coronavirus. Due to an abundance of caution, crowds were absent for most of the season, but not a single positive case among K League 1 clubs occured, which is just incredible.

The off-season

AFC Champions League

After the domestic season was finished, there was the small matter of almost an entire Champions League campaign to play in Qatar. There were 4 teams representing K League.
FC Seoul arrived at the competition with yet another caretaker manager, this time it was a scout from their backroom staff because they couldn't find anyone else with the correct coaching license that the AFC requires. They continued their domestic form and went home early, finishing 3rd in their group.
Jeonbuk also finished 3rd in their group. In their defence they did have a lot of their usual starting XI missing, but the Jeonbuk of yesteryear would have still managed. They just weren't very good in 2020.
Suwon Bluewings were perhaps the darkest horse at the tournament, and despite turning up with an all-Korean squad and without their captain, showed a will to scrap for every single ball and a self-confidence that was quite terrifying. They played in what was my personal favourite game of the tournament, a win over the then-reigning J.League champions Yokohama FM which included a lob from the halfway line. Unfortunately they had to play the majority of their next game with 10 men. They still pushed it to penalties, but didn't get lucky. If you count a loss on penalties as a draw, they still left Qatar unbeaten.
Ulsan... well they won it. Well done them. Their manager headed into the competition knowing he wouldn't have a job afterwards regardless of outcome, but they still bossed it. They lifted the trophy undefeated for only the second time in the competition's history. The first team that did it was themselves, in 2012.

Club World Cup

During Ulsan's rebuild, they had to jet off to Qatar again to fight for the title of champions of the universe. Literally half of the players who played in the Champions League final in December did not make the return trip to Qatar, either due to injury or having left the club, and the manager and 5 players were making their debut for the club. Expectations were not high, and they met those expectations by losing to Tigres and Al-Duhail. However, the trip wasn't totally pointless, as they managed to score this ^offside [goal that some said was Puskas-worthy]().

Transfers

The transfer window followed the familiar pattern of the previous season's best talent leaving for richer (but not necessarily better) leagues abroad, and an influx of Eastern Europeans with exotic names.
One notable pair of transfers is Seongnam's signing of forwards Park Yong-ji and Sergiu Bus. Will they be any good? Who knows. But the prospect of Park and Bus playing up front is the reddit comedian's wet dream.
Considering they came within touching distance of the league 2 seasons in a row and were just crowned champions of Asia, Ulsan are undergoing a massive rebuild. The new coach has minimal club coaching experience, and hasn't managed for over three years, but is apparently getting rid of anyone over the age of 30. Among the departures, captain Shin Jin-ho went to their East Coast Derby rivals Pohang, but the biggest shock is their striker Junior, who just had the most prolific season in K League history, being let go on a free to China.
I won't go over the other couple of hundred transfers that happened, but here's a list of all the foreigners in K League this season so that you can see if you recognise any journeymen:

Club				AFC slot
Daegu	🇧🇷Cesinha	🇧🇷Edgar		🇯🇵Tsubasa
Gangwon	🇷🇸Siladi	🇯🇵Ishida		🇺🇿Ashurmatov
Gwangju	🇧🇷Felipe
Incheon	🇧🇷Negueba	🇲🇪Mugosa	🇨🇷Aguilar	🇦🇺Delbridge
Jeju				🇺🇿Kenzhaboev
Jeonbuk	🇧🇷Gustavo	🇬🇲Barrow	🇷🇺/🇩🇪Iljutcenko	🇯🇵Kunimoto
Pohang	🇨🇴Palacios			🇦🇺Grant
Seongnam	🇦🇹Windbichler	🇷🇸Mulic	🇷🇴Bus	🇺🇿Iskanderov
FC Seoul	🇷🇸Palocevic	🇪🇦Osmar		🇺🇿Alibaev
Suwon FC	🇧🇷Murilo	🇿🇦Veldwijk
Suwon Bluewings	🇮🇹Dumitru	🇷🇸Deric	🇨🇦Henry	🇦🇺Antonis
Ulsan	🇦🇹Hinterseer	🇳🇱Bulthuis		🇦🇺Davidson

Matchday 1

The season kicks off on Saturday, with reigning champions Jeonbuk hosting FC Seoul. The fixture is known as "the legendary match" (it's purely a Korean word play, it's not really that legendary), and FC Seoul haven't won this tie since 2017. FC Seoul have however had probably the most promising transfer window of anyone this winter, so putting an end to this record wouldn't be that shocking.
The times are admittedly not that convenient for UK viewers, but after the clocks change and the kick-off times shift to later in the day to avoid the daytime heat, you can still have a long lie-in and catch the whole match.
The K League 1 matchday 1 kick-off times are as follows:
Saturday 27th Feb

• 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT)
  • Jeonbuk vs FC Seoul
• 16:30 local time (07:30 GMT)
  • Daegu vs Suwon FC

Sunday 28th Feb

• 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT)
  • Pohang vs Incheon
• 16:30 local time (07:30 GMT)
  • Suwon Bluewings vs Gwangju

Monday 1st Mar

• 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT)
  • Ulsan vs Gangwon
• 16:30 local time (07:30 GMT)
  • Seongnam vs Jeju

How to follow

There is only one place ^{on reddit} to follow all the K League happenings - KLeague. Over the past year, we've grown by about 350 subscribers over 45% (wow!) and now have image flairs that work across old, new, and mobile reddit. It's your go-to place to ask "stupid" questions and seek terrible advice on who to "root for". If you check the subreddit wiki you'll find plenty of info on how to get into it and how to watch the action live or highlights.
There is no Supercup/Community Shield in Korea, but the first match of the season is arranged to be the previous season's League champions vs the FA Cup winners. This means it's Jeonbuk vs Suwon on Friday. The smart money will be on a Jeonbuk win, but the dollarydoos will be on Suwon. Given that nobody's played a league match since 1st December last year though, everything's a bit unpredictable.

The off-season

The main transfers that I can remember include

• Korean NT goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu returning to Japan after playing for Ulsan for just 6 months and taking a throw-in
• Korea's other main goalkeeper Cho Hyeon-woo transferring to Ulsan from Daegu
• Lee Chung-yong returning to the K League after a long spell in Europe, joining Ulsan
• MLS champion with Seattle Sounders Kim Kee-hee joining Ulsan. Ulsan really going for it here
• The transfer with the highest publicly-disclosed transfer fee was last season's highest-paid player Ricardo Lopes going to Shanghai SIPG in China for about £5 million
• Jeonbuk got their main transfer business done early, signing last year's MVP at Ulsan, Kim Bo-kyung

Ki Sung-yueng almost returned to the K League but talks broke down due to some weird contract clause that FC Seoul still had over him, leading Ki to write this very mature message on his instagram and head off to Spain:

Hurt me with a lie and I can hurt you with the truth...stop playing with me u ain't gonna like when I play back

There were of course many many more transfers in the winter window, but none that would interest most people reading this.
What everyone should be interested in is the K League mascot "class president election", a popular vote for the K League's favourite mascot. It was a two horse race between Daegu's adorable Rica the hedgehog, and the prince of darkness, Suwon Bluewing's Aguileon. Actually I'm not sure which one the prince of darkness is. To my dismay, Aguileon managed to take 1st place, leading Rica by over 1,000 votes. Although he only came 7th, I also want to give special mention to Jeju United's orange.
There were big changes in the lower leagues, as three divisions were merged into two, sorting out the confusing naming schemes, and removing barriers to promotion and relegation throughout the pyramid. The two new divisions are semi-pro, called K3 League and K4 League, sitting below the professional K League 2, and above the amateur K5 league. The long-standing target of having pro/rel with K League 2 "within 5 years" now actually looks possible.

How do I watch it?

Watching live
Watching K League outside of Korea used to be tricky and in Western markets the rights were typically hoovered up by sites like Bet365.
Interest abroad for K League rights are heightened now, so this year there are at least some countries that have been confirmed to broadcast K League, mainly in Asia and Eastern Europe. There are rumours of France, Germany, Italy, Australia, and USA (ESPN?) being interested in the rights, but nothing confirmed yet.
If you don't live in a country that has broadcasting rights, there is still a way to watch online from a proper source. If you can get yourself a Korean IP address, i.e. using a VPN, it's very easy to watch many of the matches in a (mostly?) legal way. If you're using a browser simply head to the Korean web portal Naver (https://sports.naver.com/kfootball/index.nhn), and when there's a match on, it will appear at the top of the webpage, usually with some indication that live video is available. Click on it and start watching. (Note that I haven't checked if it's this straightforward on desktop; I don't own a computer. There's a chance you might be asked to install a browser add-on or something - you can ask in the comments here or on kleague if you need help). An alternative if you're on mobile is to install the "Naver TV" app and find a match in the Live tab. You can also watch back full matches that were shown on Naver if you miss it live.
I won't share less-legal ways to watch here, but if you head over to kleague and look at recent posts you might find something won't find anything so don't even think about it buddy.
One thing to consider about live matches is the time difference - in the winter months, matches kick off around 5am or 7am GMT. In the summer months, kick off is ~10am or 11am GMT. However, for the first couple of weekends the kick-off times are spread throughout the day, so you should be able to catch a game wherever you are.
Watching highlights
If an inconvenient time difference is putting you off, you can still enjoy K League even if you don't watch live. Every single match gets a high quality ~10 minute highlight video produced that is region-free on YouTube. Just imagine you're watching MOTD but without the bad punditry. The official K League channel, should be hosting these videos again this year, but I should include the disclaimer that there's a possibility that the rights to show highlights might have been sold this year, in which case you'd have to find out who has those rights in your country. Highlights are usually uploaded 30 mins – 2 hours after the end of a match, although I did read that AI in their new media centre will be producing highlights within a few minutes of the match ending...

Choosing a team

If any of you want to pick a team to support, if you give some criteria in the comments I can help by suggesting a team, but I'll leave some info here based on what I think could be some common ways to pick a team.
If looking good is your primary concern, here's an imgur album of all home and away K League kits. This album has the kits from both K League 1 & K League 2, so of you're only interested in the top flight you'll have to ignore a few. If looking good is really important to you, there's one particular corner of the internet that has already given their seal of approval to Daegu FC.
This short hype video also serves to show all club crests if you want to base a decision on that.

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Popular casinos and online games in Colombia
Currently, Colombia has become one of the strongest markets in Latin America within the top 10 casino and gambling games such as Poker, Blackjack, Roulette and Craps. Not in vain was it the first country in the region to legalize online games, offering a solid legal framework with a great variety in terms of fun and Internet games, where the big star is undoubtedly sports betting. The wide implementation of the Internet in residences and the great advance in digital technology also collaborates a lot. Only authorized online casino rooms present the official Colombian seal and the main ones such as Spin Casino, LeoVegas and Jackpot City Casino, accept both local and foreign currencies
Popular casinos and online games in Mexico
The Mexican population is very fond of casinos and online gambling. It is a nation known for its great attraction towards soccer so sports betting has a large number of players. All activities in relation to casinos and games with bets such as Slots, Video Poker and Progressive Jackpots are regulated by law, so any Mexican citizen has the privilege to play bets with any international operator present in the country. In a simple way you can get an exclusive electronic wallet to play bets with the great advantage and ease of making withdrawals on any business day at major casinos such as Bet365, 1xBet or 888casino.
Popular casinos and online games in Uruguay
Uruguay is a country recognized for its freedom, strong democracy, and little government corruption. Its successive governments have been concerned with allowing tourists and citizens to enjoy the opportunity to win money in different casino games such as Blackjack, Roulette and Slots, offering different facilities for each occasion. Such is the trust towards this small Latin American nation, that there are more and more international online casinos and rooms where Jackpot City Uruguay, Rivalo and Betway Casino stand out, accepting Uruguayan players in addition to giving them excellent welcome promotions. Games like poker are allowed in legal casinos to such an extent that the online poker variety is perhaps the most popular and profitable of all.
Popular casinos and online games in Argentina
Online casinos have an international presence on Argentine soil based on the country's legislation and constitution, each province is in charge of the regulation and permits for the different online games. Due to this reason, gambling lovers generally take a tour of different international operators when having fun and making money in games such as Blackjack, Baccarat, Texas Hold'em Poker and roulette in all its varieties. Today the busiest casino rooms: Titan Casino, Royal Vegas and 888Casino have their pages and online games adapted to be compatible with any device and have the option to play on any available mobile device.
conclusion
The industry related to gambling in casinos and online is advantageous in different Latin American countries. Even as of 2018 it has grown notably in part due to the capacity in innovation verified in recent times. Also noteworthy is the boom in sports betting that is expanding year after year with a more general public and not so stigmatized but with the common goal of achieving very good economic returns.

Delayed by coronavirus by 10 weeks, Asia's oldest professional league is finally here
Contents:

• Why should you care?
• The impact of coronavirus
• How do I get into it?
• Matchday 1
• The off-season
• Watching live
• Watching highlights
• Choosing a team

Why should you care?

The most obvious reason is that it's being played at all and will probably be the highest-quality football on offer in the world right now.
Longer-term, when the football calendar returns to normal, following the K League means you'll never have to go without club football from ~June-August again, as the K League plays from ~February–November. When everyone in the DD is lamenting how empty their lives are now that the EPL has finished, you can just enjoy watching the K League in full swing every weekend.
I could wax lyrical about how amazing the K League is, but really those will be the best reasons for most people. Aside from that, it does generally provide very good entertainment. Last season we saw:

• the title race come down to the last game of the season, and was decided on a tiebreaker by a single goal scored
• related to the above, Ulsan failing to secure the title by losing to their biggest rivals Pohang Steelers when they only needed a draw
• the previous season's runners-up being relegated
• K League stalwarts Jeju United being relegated for the first time ever
• Gangwon staging a 5-goal comeback in the final 25 mins of a game against Pohang in which they were 4-0 down

The impact of coronavirus

The K League season was postponed in late February, 5 days before it was meant to kick off. Training was allowed to continue, although friendlies against other teams were banned. South Korea's response to the virus has widely been considered "very good", and so talks took place in April about resuming the season soon after friendlies were allowed again.
Clubs initially ruled out opening behind closed doors due to their reliance on gate receipts for their finances, but I guess they changed their minds on that, as there will be no crowd at the beginning with no date set for opening the doors. However, given that South Korea held a general election with their highest ever voter turnout a few weeks ago, with no apparent subsequent impact on coronavirus numbers, I'm hopeful there will be a crowd in the near future. New cases in South Korea have been about 10 per day for the past few weeks, and a majority of those have been arrivals from abroad. Social distancing is set to be relaxed from Wednesday, moving into a new phase of "everyday life quarantine", with public facilities and schools ready to reopen.
The K League 1 season is normally 38 games, but will be reduced to 27 games for this year - each of the 12 teams will play each other twice, and then after round 22 the table will "split" for the final 5 games. A league champion will only be crowned if at least 22 games are played.
If any player or coach tests positive, their team will not play for at least 2 weeks. No staff or players connected with K League clubs were reported as testing positive during the outbreak, and last week all players, coaches, and support staff in K League 1 & K League 2 were tested prior to the start of the season, all testing negative.
One interesting side-effect of the delay is that the K League will be the first to implement the new 2020-2021 IFAB rules, which bring a bit more common sense into penalising a goalkeeper for coming off their line for a penalty, and only penalise an accidental handball from the attacker if it happens immediately before a goal.

How do I get into it?

You could just start watching, but you might want to know a bit more about what you're watching. There are only a handful of English-language websites that cover the K League. Probably the most comprehensive overview can be found on this webpage, which basically serves as an index for a lot more content, but you can pick and choose what you want to read. If you want something a bit more digestable, I've been making OC on reddit over the past year, and if you read some of it, you'd be as well-informed as most who watch it:
Guide to 2019 K League - perhaps a bit wordy, but could be worth a skim - not much changes in the space of a year anyway.
Korean derbies - soccer really loves a derby. Here I tried to cover the main ones within the top flight with a bit of history, some stories, and significant matches.
Season in review: 2019 K League - my recap of the season past. It was actually pretty exciting, with the title race going to the final day and decided on a single goal scored.
I've also made this map so that you can get an idea of where each club is geographically. Stadium pictures are included.

Matchday 1

There is no Supercup/Community Shield in Korea, but the first match of the season is arranged to be the previous season's League champions vs the FA Cup winners. This means it's Jeonbuk vs Suwon on Friday. The smart money will be on a Jeonbuk win, but the dollarydoos will be on Suwon. Given that nobody's played a league match since 1st December last year though, everything's a bit unpredictable.
The K League 1 matchday 1 kick-off times are as follows:
Friday 8th May 19:00 local time (10:00 GMT) Jeonbuk vs Suwon
Saturday 9th May 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT) Ulsan vs Sangju Sangmu
16:30 local time (07:30 GMT) Incheon vs Daegu
19:00 local time (10:00 GMT) Gwangju vs Seongnam
Sunday 10th May 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT) Pohang vs Busan
16:30 local time (07:30 GMT) Gangwon vs FC Seoul

The off-season

The main transfers that I can remember include

• Korean NT goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu returning to Japan after playing for Ulsan for just 6 months and taking a throw-in
• Korea's other main goalkeeper Cho Hyeon-woo transferring to Ulsan from Daegu
• Lee Chung-yong returning to the K League after a long spell in Europe, joining Ulsan
• MLS champion with Seattle Sounders Kim Kee-hee joining Ulsan. Ulsan really going for it here
• The transfer with the highest publicly-disclosed transfer fee was last season's highest-paid player Ricardo Lopes going to Shanghai SIPG in China for about £5 million
• Jeonbuk got their main transfer business done early, signing last year's MVP at Ulsan, Kim Bo-kyung

Ki Sung-yueng almost returned to the K League but talks broke down due to some weird contract clause that FC Seoul still had over him, leading Ki to write this very mature message on his instagram and head off to Spain:

Hurt me with a lie and I can hurt you with the truth...stop playing with me u ain't gonna like when I play back

There were of course many many more transfers in the winter window, but none that would interest most people reading this.
What everyone should be interested in is the K League mascot "class president election", a popular vote for the K League's favourite mascot. It was a two horse race between Daegu's adorable Rica the hedgehog, and the prince of darkness, Suwon Bluewing's Aguileon. Actually I'm not sure which one the prince of darkness is. To my dismay, Aguileon managed to take 1st place, leading Rica by over 1,000 votes. Although he only came 7th, I also want to give special mention to Jeju United's orange.
There were big changes in the lower leagues, as three divisions were merged into two, sorting out the confusing naming schemes, and removing barriers to promotion and relegation throughout the pyramid. The two new divisions are semi-pro, called K3 League and K4 League, sitting below the professional K League 2, and above the amateur K5 league. The long-standing target of having pro/rel with K League 2 "within 5 years" now actually looks possible.

How do I watch it?

Watching live
Watching K League outside of Korea used to be tricky and in Western markets the rights were typically hoovered up by sites like Bet365.
Interest abroad for K League rights are heightened now, so this year there are at least some countries that have been confirmed to broadcast K League, mainly in Asia and Eastern Europe. There are rumours of France, Germany, Italy, Australia, and USA (ESPN?) being interested in the rights, but nothing confirmed yet.
If you don't live in a country that has broadcasting rights, there is still a way to watch online from a proper source. If you can get yourself a Korean IP address, i.e. using a VPN, it's very easy to watch many of the matches in a (mostly?) legal way. If you're using a browser simply head to the Korean web portal Naver (https://sports.naver.com/kfootball/index.nhn), and when there's a match on, it will appear at the top of the webpage, usually with some indication that live video is available. Click on it and start watching. (Note that I haven't checked if it's this straightforward on desktop; I don't own a computer. There's a chance you might be asked to install a browser add-on or something - you can ask in the comments here or on kleague if you need help). An alternative if you're on mobile is to install the "Naver TV" app and find a match in the Live tab. You can also watch back full matches that were shown on Naver if you miss it live.
I won't share less-legal ways to watch here, but if you head over to kleague and look at recent posts you might find something won't find anything so don't even think about it buddy.
One thing to consider about live matches is the time difference - in the winter months, matches kick off around 5am or 7am GMT. In the summer months, kick off is ~10am or 11am GMT. However, for the first couple of weekends the kick-off times are spread throughout the day, so you should be able to catch a game wherever you are.
Watching highlights
If an inconvenient time difference is putting you off, you can still enjoy K League even if you don't watch live. Every single match gets a high quality ~10 minute highlight video produced that is region-free on YouTube. Just imagine you're watching MOTD but without the bad punditry. The official K League channel, should be hosting these videos again this year, but I should include the disclaimer that there's a possibility that the rights to show highlights might have been sold this year, in which case you'd have to find out who has those rights in your country. Highlights are usually uploaded 30 mins – 2 hours after the end of a match, although I did read that AI in their new media centre will be producing highlights within a few minutes of the match ending...

Choosing a team

If any of you want to pick a team to support, if you give some criteria in the comments I can help by suggesting a team, but I'll leave some info here based on what I think could be some common ways to pick a team.
If looking good is your primary concern, here's an imgur album of all home and away K League kits. This album has the kits from both K League 1 & K League 2, so of you're only interested in the top flight you'll have to ignore a few. If looking good is really important to you, there's one particular corner of the internet that has already given their seal of approval to Daegu FC.
If you want to support your countrymen, here's a list of all foreigners playing in K League 1. There's no 🇺🇸Americans this year (Mix Diskerud was on loan at Ulsan last year, but he's returned to Man City), but Johnsen who plays for Ulsan was born and grew up in the US. 🇵🇹Portuguese Jose Morais is manager of Jeonbuk, formerly assistant manager to Mourinho.

Club				AFC slot
Busan	🇧🇷Vintecinco	🇧🇷Rômulo	🇧🇷Reis	🇺🇿Tursunov
Daegu	🇧🇷Césinha	🇧🇷Edgar	🇲🇪Dejan	🇯🇵Tsubasa
Gangwon				🇯🇵Nakazato
Gwangju	🇧🇷Felipe	🇧🇷Willyan	🇨🇷Ureña	🇺🇿Ashurmatov
Incheon	🇧🇦Bunoza	🇲🇪Mugosa	🇳🇬Kehinde	🇦🇺Mahazi
Jeonbuk	🇧🇷Murilo	🇿🇦Veldwijk		🇯🇵Kunimoto
Pohang	🇨🇴Palacios	🇷🇺Iljutcenko	🇷🇸Palocevic	🇦🇺O'Neill
Seongnam	🇭🇷Jovanovic	🇭🇷Kis		🇺🇿Iskanderov
FC Seoul	🇧🇷Adriano	🇪🇦Osmar	🇷🇸Pesic	🇺🇿Alibaev
Suwon	🇦🇺Antonis	🇧🇦Krpic	🇨🇦Henry	🇦🇺Taggart
Ulsan	🇧🇷Junior	🇳🇱Bulthuis	🇳🇴Johnsen	🇦🇺Davidson

There's a lack of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿English representation this year, but if you're looking for some familarity, there's a handful of South Koreans who have played in the English pyramid:

• Arsenal LEGEND Park Chu-young (now with FC Seoul)
• Middlesbrough LEGEND Lee Dong-gook (now with Jeonbuk) who is now 41
• Bolton Wanderers and Crystal Palace legend Lee Chung-yong (now with Ulsan)
• Cardiff and Wigan Athletic legend Kim Bo-kyung (now with Jeonbuk)
• QPR legend Yoon Suk-young (now with Busan)

Other Koreans who had a stint in the 'top 5 leagues' include Park Joo-ho (Ulsan), Hong Jeong-ho, Kim Jin-su (both with Jeonbuk now), Yun Jun-tae (now with FC Seoul), and Kim Kyung-joong (now with Gangwon).
This short hype video also serves to show all club crests if you want to base a decision on that.

Delayed by coronavirus by 10 weeks, Asia's oldest professional league is finally here
Contents:

• The impact of coronavirus
• How do I get into it?
• Matchday 1
• The off-season
• Watching live
• Watching highlights
• Choosing a team

The impact of coronavirus

The K League season was postponed in late February, 5 days before it was meant to kick off. Training was allowed to continue, although friendlies against other teams were banned. South Korea's response to the virus has widely been considered "very good", and so talks took place in April about resuming the season soon after friendlies were allowed again.
Clubs initially ruled out opening behind closed doors due to their reliance on gate receipts for their finances, but I guess they changed their minds on that, as there will be no crowd at the beginning with no date set for opening the doors. However, given that South Korea held a general election with their highest ever voter turnout a few weeks ago, with no apparent subsequent impact on coronavirus numbers, I'm hopeful there will be a crowd in the near future. New cases in South Korea have been about 10 per day for the past few weeks, and a majority of those have been arrivals from abroad. Social distancing is set to be relaxed from Wednesday, moving into a new phase of "everyday life quarantine", with public facilities and schools ready to reopen.
The K League 1 season is normally 38 games, but will be reduced to 27 games for this year - each of the 12 teams will play each other twice, and then after round 22 the table will "split" for the final 5 games. A league champion will only be crowned if at least 22 games are played.
If any player or coach tests positive, their team will not play for at least 2 weeks. No staff or players connected with K League clubs were reported as testing positive during the outbreak, and last week all players, coaches, and support staff in K League 1 & K League 2 were tested prior to the start of the season, all testing negative.
One interesting side-effect of the delay is that the K League will be the first to implement the new 2020-2021 IFAB rules, which bring a bit more common sense into penalising a goalkeeper for coming off their line for a penalty, and only penalise an accidental handball from the attacker if it happens immediately before a goal.

How do I get into it?

You could just start watching, but you might want to know a bit more about what you're watching. There are only a handful of English-language websites that cover the K League. Probably the most comprehensive overview can be found on this webpage, which basically serves as an index for a lot more content, but you can pick and choose what you want to read. If you want something a bit more digestable, I've been making OC on reddit over the past year, and if you read some of it, you'd be as well-informed as most who watch it:
Guide to 2019 K League - perhaps a bit wordy, but could be worth a skim - not much changes in the space of a year anyway.
Korean derbies - reddit really loves a derby. Here I tried to cover the main ones within the top flight with a bit of history, some stories, and significant matches.
Season in review: 2019 K League - my recap of the season past. It was actually pretty exciting, with the title race going to the final day and decided on a single goal scored.
I've also made this map so that you can get an idea of where each club is geographically. Stadium pictures are included.

Matchday 1

There is no Supercup/Community Shield in Korea, but the first match of the season is arranged to be the previous season's League champions vs the FA Cup winners. This means it's Jeonbuk vs Suwon on Friday. The smart money will be on a Jeonbuk win, but the dollarydoos will be on Suwon. Given that nobody's played a league match since 1st December last year though, everything's a bit unpredictable.
The K League 1 matchday 1 kick-off times are as follows:
Friday 8th May 19:00 local time (10:00 GMT) Jeonbuk vs Suwon
Saturday 9th May 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT) Ulsan vs Sangju Sangmu
16:30 local time (07:30 GMT) Incheon vs Daegu
19:00 local time (10:00 GMT) Gwangju vs Seongnam
Sunday 10th May 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT) Pohang vs Busan
16:30 local time (07:30 GMT) Gangwon vs FC Seoul

The off-season

The main transfers that I can remember include

• Korean NT goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu returning to Japan after playing for Ulsan for just 6 months and taking a throw-in
• Korea's other main goalkeeper Cho Hyeon-woo transferring to Ulsan from Daegu
• Lee Chung-yong returning to the K League after a long spell in Europe, joining Ulsan
• MLS champion with Seattle Sounders Kim Kee-hee joining Ulsan. Ulsan really going for it here
• The transfer with the highest publicly-disclosed transfer fee was last season's highest-paid player Ricardo Lopes going to Shanghai SIPG in China for about £5 million
• Jeonbuk got their main transfer business done early, signing last year's MVP at Ulsan, Kim Bo-kyung

Ki Sung-yueng almost returned to the K League but talks broke down due to some weird contract clause that FC Seoul still had over him, leading Ki to write this very mature message on his instagram and head off to Spain:

Hurt me with a lie and I can hurt you with the truth...stop playing with me u ain't gonna like when I play back

There were of course many many more transfers in the winter window, but many were not that interesting.
What everyone should be interested in is the K League mascot "class president election", a popular vote for the K League's favourite mascot. It was a two horse race between Daegu's adorable Rica the hedgehog, and the prince of darkness, Suwon Bluewing's Aguileon. Actually I'm not sure which one the prince of darkness is. To my dismay, Aguileon managed to take 1st place, leading Rica by over 1,000 votes. Although he only came 7th, I also want to give special mention to Jeju United's orange.
There were big changes in the lower leagues, as three divisions were merged into two, sorting out the confusing naming schemes, and removing barriers to promotion and relegation throughout the pyramid. The two new divisions are semi-pro, called K3 League and K4 League, sitting below the professional K League 2, and above the amateur K5 league. The long-standing target of having pro/rel with K League 2 "within 5 years" now actually looks possible.

How do I watch it?

Watching live
Watching K League outside of Korea used to be tricky and in Western markets the rights were typically hoovered up by sites like Bet365.
Interest abroad for K League rights are heightened now, so this year there are at least some countries that have been confirmed to broadcast K League, mainly in Asia and Eastern Europe. There are rumours of France, Germany, Italy, Australia, and USA (ESPN?) being interested in the rights, but nothing confirmed yet.
If you don't live in a country that has broadcasting rights, there is still a way to watch online from a proper source. If you can get yourself a Korean IP address, i.e. using a VPN, it's very easy to watch many of the matches in a (mostly?) legal way. If you're using a browser simply head to the Korean web portal Naver (https://sports.naver.com/kfootball/index.nhn), and when there's a match on, it will appear at the top of the webpage, usually with some indication that live video is available. Click on it and start watching. (Note that I haven't checked if it's this straightforward on desktop; I don't own a computer. There's a chance you might be asked to install a browser add-on or something - you can ask in the comments here or on the sub if you need help). An alternative if you're on mobile is to install the "Naver TV" app and find a match in the Live tab. You can also watch back full matches that were shown on Naver if you miss it live.
In less-legal ways to watch, if you look at old posts on the sub you might find something.
One thing to consider about live matches is the time difference - in the winter months, matches kick off around 5am or 7am GMT. In the summer months, kick off is ~10am or 11am GMT. However, for the first couple of weekends the kick-off times are spread throughout the day, so you should be able to catch a game wherever you are.
Watching highlights
If an inconvenient time difference is putting you off, you can still enjoy K League even if you don't watch live. Every single match gets a high quality ~10 minute highlight video produced that is region-free on YouTube. Just imagine you're watching MOTD but without the bad punditry. The official K League channel, should be hosting these videos again this year, but I should include the disclaimer that there's a possibility that the rights to show highlights might have been sold this year, in which case you'd have to find out who has those rights in your country. Highlights are usually uploaded 30 mins – 2 hours after the end of a match, although I did read that AI in their new media centre will be producing highlights within a few minutes of the match ending...

Choosing a team

If any of you want to pick a team to support, if you give some criteria in the comments I can help by suggesting a team, but I'll leave some info here based on what I think could be some common ways to pick a team.
If looking good is your primary concern, here's an imgur album of all home and away K League kits. This album has the kits from both K League 1 & K League 2, so of you're only interested in the top flight you'll have to ignore a few. If looking good is really important to you, there's one particular corner of the internet that has already given their seal of approval to Daegu FC.
If you want to support your countrymen, here's a list of all foreigners playing in K League 1. There's no 🇺🇸Americans this year (Mix Diskerud was on loan at Ulsan last year, but he's returned to Man City), but Johnsen who plays for Ulsan was born and grew up in the US. 🇵🇹Portuguese Jose Morais is manager of Jeonbuk, formerly assistant manager to Mourinho.

Club				AFC slot
Busan	🇧🇷Vintecinco	🇧🇷Rômulo	🇧🇷Reis	🇺🇿Tursunov
Daegu	🇧🇷Césinha	🇧🇷Edgar	🇲🇪Dejan	🇯🇵Tsubasa
Gangwon				🇯🇵Nakazato
Gwangju	🇧🇷Felipe	🇧🇷Willyan	🇨🇷Ureña	🇺🇿Ashurmatov
Incheon	🇧🇦Bunoza	🇲🇪Mugosa	🇳🇬Kehinde	🇦🇺Mahazi
Jeonbuk	🇧🇷Murilo	🇿🇦Veldwijk		🇯🇵Kunimoto
Pohang	🇨🇴Palacios	🇷🇺Iljutcenko	🇷🇸Palocevic	🇦🇺O'Neill
Seongnam	🇭🇷Jovanovic	🇭🇷Kis		🇺🇿Iskanderov
FC Seoul	🇧🇷Adriano	🇪🇦Osmar	🇷🇸Pesic	🇺🇿Alibaev
Suwon	🇦🇺Antonis	🇧🇦Krpic	🇨🇦Henry	🇦🇺Taggart
Ulsan	🇧🇷Junior	🇳🇱Bulthuis	🇳🇴Johnsen	🇦🇺Davidson

There's a lack of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿English representation this year, but if you're looking for some familarity, there's a handful of South Koreans who have played in the English pyramid:

• Arsenal LEGEND Park Chu-young (now with FC Seoul)
• Middlesbrough LEGEND Lee Dong-gook (now with Jeonbuk) who is now 41
• Bolton Wanderers and Crystal Palace legend Lee Chung-yong (now with Ulsan)
• Cardiff and Wigan Athletic legend Kim Bo-kyung (now with Jeonbuk)
• QPR legend Yoon Suk-young (now with Busan)

Other Koreans who had a stint in the 'top 5 leagues' include Park Joo-ho (Ulsan), Hong Jeong-ho, Kim Jin-su (both with Jeonbuk now), Yun Jun-tae (now with FC Seoul), and Kim Kyung-joong (now with Gangwon).
This short hype video also serves to show all club crests if you want to base a decision on that.

Hope you all enjoyed the opener yesterday!
Trying to list all sources here, please contribute in the comments if there's more details to add.
First match was broadcast 🌍 worldwide K League's official YouTube and Twitter (@KLeague), but I think that was a one-off
🇬🇧 - BBC also streamed the first match, but again there is no confirmation yet of further matches being shown
🇺🇸/🇬🇧/🇨🇦/Others - Copa90 is streaming a match per week on their YouTube, confirmed to be available in the UK, US, Canada and "other selected territories" although I can't find a schedule
🇦🇺 - Optus Sport have picked it up in Australia and look like they will be showing 2 games each weekend
🇩🇪/🇦🇹/🇨🇭 - sportdigital getting it in Germany and German-speaking regions. "Laola.tv" also in Austria.
🇭🇷/🇷🇸/🇲🇪/🇸🇮/🇧🇦/🇽🇰/🇲🇰 - Arena Sport TV in the Balkans
🇲🇾 - Stadium Astro in Malaysia (and possibly Brunei)
Others in China, India, Macau, and Hong Kong (difficult for me to find exact details)
🇬🇧 - Bet365 has hoovered up rights again, but you need to to deposit minimum £5 and hold a balance of £1. The £5 can be withdrawn later assuming you don't lose it.
VPN options are basically Naver (https://m.sports.naver.com/kfootball/index.nhn) or Daum (https://sports.media.daum.net/sports/socce). Or the Naver TV app. Or VPN-ing to a country that is showing it, like for Copa90 above.
I've heard that JTBC in Korea doesn't region-lock their streams (can't confirm it myself) so if they have the match you might be able to watch it that way (http://jtbcgolfnsports.joins.com/onair).
IB Sports and Sky Sports Korea are the other broadcasters getting it in Korea, but I haven't checked if they have streams in their websites.
I saw kleague.com mentioned yesterday, don't know if they actually host any matches there.
For help on using a VPN on desktop see this recent post - https://www.reddit.com/KLeague/comments/gg8yj3/how_to_watch_k_league_with_vpn/
Using a VPN on mobile is more straightforward as you don't need to install additional software, you can just watch it in a browser or use the Naver TV app.
If there are no legal options, you can still go illegal. Possible that there might be streams on YouTube, you'd need to search. Others I've seen mentioned include spotv365.com, cool-365.com, and aqstream.com, try them at your own peril.

I recently wired bet365 $17,000 to bet NFL futures. However they locked my account right away and asked me to verify my funds. I’ve sent passports, bank statements, utility bills, my license, and everything they requested. They keep asking me where I got the money and I told them I won at a casino. The deposit was made to my bank who had no problem with it, and the wire was processed. Now they are asking for proof I won it at the casino but I don’t have any. I’ve never heard of this sportsbook giving problems. None of my documents are invalid and I haven’t even placed one bet.
Any ideas on what I can do? It’s been over a month of correspondence and I’ve sent them over 10 attachments.

My gambling started out when I was around 15-16. I took advantage of the CSGO skins scene where it was so easy to get on certain sites and gamble skins (worth money) on roulette, coinflips, jackpots etc. I once racked up over 1k on my mums credit card because i was a dumbshit and so young, I didn't even know what i was doing. After I lied my way out of it and blamed it on "G2A scamming us", my problem pretty much vanished for a year or two and I basically forgot about gambling. Come my 18th birthday, I'm legally allowed to sign up for my countries local bookmaker, (eg Bet365, etc). I loved, it, and I would be on it all the time. I would literally wait for my gf to fall asleep so i could just gamble for a couple hours before going to sleep myself. I knew i had a problem but never did anything about it. I tried to put in restrictions on myself after I lost substantial amounts, (a couple hundred dollars in a day), like self exclusion for a month or whatever, but I'd be counting down the days, and let loose once it ended. I've now recently gotten back into the CSGO betting websites as they have become a thing again, and I won really big in the space of a month, making about $1,000. In literally 2 days I blew all my profit and withdrew the rest to my bank, and downloaded BetBlocker to stop myself. Today, my week exclusion ran out and, you guessed it, i blew another 400$. In like fucking 20 mins. I realise now that im so young (still 18) and if i dont do anything about this now It's going to get so much worse. Any thoughts/comments/recommendations would be really appreciated. No one knows about my problem. Today is the day i stop. Ill let you know how i get on.

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They're downright triggering.
Basically, it is only legal to bet through Singapore Pools and the Singapore Turf Club, any other means of gambling is considered illegal, the argument being that it is for the sake of the citizens to curb gambling addictions that can lead to excessive financial loss and one's downfall.
Except all legal means of gambling are heavily skewed against you. Betting legally makes you several times more likely to lose money. To give a brief example, odds provided for soccer games are much poorer compared to online bookies. Bet365 for sample, might give you odds of 2.5 when you win but Singapore Pools would offer you a paltry value of 1.7. $250 in winnings become $170. That is a massive difference. The reason for this is that the profit margin for our dear government is much higher. They need not provide competitive odds because they simply ban the usage of any competitors allowing them a monopoly on the country.
Honestly, I wouldn't even mind if sports betting or lottery was flat out banned in the country. What bothers me is that there is this pretext of doing it for the public's sake when it's about earning $$$.

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Global Online Gambling and Betting Market by Gaming Type
Poker
Lottery
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Sports Betting
Fantasy Sports
Others
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Desktop
Mobile
Tab
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Hardware
Software
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Europe
Asia Pacific
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Fortuna Entertainment Group,
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Playtika
SciGames
Zynga
Bet365 Group Ltd.
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Paddy Power Fortuna Entertainment Group
The Betway Group
William Hill Plc
Kindred Group
Rank Group
Playtech
Hong Kong Jockey Club
Mybet Holding
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Constant development in the internet infrastructure along with the strong penetration of mobile devices, rising urbanization & disposable incomes, increasing usage of the internet is driving the growth of the global online gambling and betting market. Virtual reality headphones are created a better environment for online gambling and betting. Crypto-currency and increased adoption and popularity of Internet-based devices are growing the market of online gambling and betting. Easy convenience of these games and the lure of easy money are the key factors powering global online gambling and betting market growth.
However, incorporation of live streaming with online gambling and development of online gambling & betting sites with innovative technology as per requirement of end-users are expected to generate new opportunities in the market.
Sports betting is estimated to hold the largest share of the market during the forecast period. Rising the popularity of sports and followers of sports among the globe will boost the market. Increased craze regarding sport in youth is growing the market of sports betting. Mobile is estimated to hold the largest share of the market during the forecast period. Rising usage of the smartphones and penetration of internet is a growing share of the market. Rising trust being online operators, as well as an increase in mobile gaming.
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Legalization for online gambling and betting in Europe region is estimated to hold the largest share of the market in this region. The UK is the first country which one is legalized for online gaming and betting and also various countries are legalizing for online gaming and betting such as Italy and Spain. However, Asia Pacific is estimated to generate the highest CAGR in the forecast period as increasing penetration of internet and relaxation of regulations regarding online gaming and betting in this region. Also, North America is estimated to grow at a substantial rate in the global online gambling & betting market meanwhile it is the most technically developed region. The U.S. is expected to be a key contributor in the region.
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Global Online Gambling and Betting Market by Gaming Type
Poker
Lottery
Bingo
Sports Betting
Fantasy Sports
Others
Global Online Gambling and Betting Market by Device Type
Desktop
Mobile
Tab
Global Online Gambling and Betting Market by Component
Hardware
Software
Service
Global Online Gambling and Betting Market by Geography
North America
Europe
Asia Pacific
Middle East & Africa
South America
Key Players in Global Online Gambling and Betting Market
888 Holdings plc
The Stars Group
Paddy Power Betfair plc.
Fortuna Entertainment Group,
GVC Holdings Plc.
Playtika
SciGames
Zynga
Bet365 Group Ltd.
Betfred Ltd.
Paddy Power Fortuna Entertainment Group
The Betway Group
William Hill Plc
Kindred Group
Rank Group
Playtech
Hong Kong Jockey Club
Mybet Holding
Kindred Group
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I've been provided the following summary by a guy who is contemplating investing in FF. He has a lot of experience in the area, and his thoughts raise a few questions which I'd like to see addressed by the FunFair development team, so if you guys are around, would be good to get your take on the following (apologies for formatting, paragraphs not showing up for some reason):
"Funfair at that price is still a good buy. Look people love gambling online, the concept is fantastic and ultimately could be a huge winner but I have some concerns.
The people running it are still a limited corporation right with the ultimate aim being to make money, they don't pretend otherwise and thats to their credit.
The potential risks are, in this order, user experience and adoption. You can't get supreme user experience without adoption and ultimately historical user data and you can't get adoption without ongoing usage.
I'll list what I feel their - huge - challenges are:
There are some serious players in the online gambling space that offer b2b platforms. Playtech essentially provides the software for all the casino, bingo, slots and poker platforms of the likes of Paddy Power, William, Coral, Mansion, Bet365, Gala, 888, Titan, Ladbroke, Betfred and a shit ton of others.
Microgaming would be their closest competitors - they have Unibet, Nordicbet, BetVictor and a ton of others.
There are others that have been before, and been very good but closed down due to being unable to keep market share of were simply bought out. It's an incredibly competitive space.
Playtech and Microgaming develop and maintain solutions that are then licensed to their clients on multi year, multi million dollar contracts. That's the space Funfair wants to operate in. They will not offer live services, their business model is to license their platform to others.
The question here is, who do they license to? All the big players are already tied up with the two noted service providers above - or run their own proprietary software like Stars/Tilt/Party.
The noted above essentially rules out the top 15 online gambling operators that account for well over 95% of the market. The others feed on their scraps, and ultimately profit out of regulation dodging.
I worked in online gaming for many years, in marketing then development then operations and localisation and back to marketing. I started in 2002 and spent a lot of time going back and forth to Costa Rica and other mental locations working with the likes of Titan, CD, Bodog, Absolute, UB and Microgaming before moving to Full Tilt full time in LA, Vancouver and Dublin from 2005 to 2011.
I seen online gambling come out of nowhere in a completely unregulated space and explode, I was there when compliance and regulatory bodies were Indian reservations in Canada and also saw and lived through the real regulation slowly creep in and one swoop wipe 40%+ value off companies overnight or even cripple companies along the way, all for the good of the Vegas casinos btw, absolute scumbags.
The one thing that I had a lot of insight to was user numbers, user experience and player behaviour and retention across a very very large period of time so the sample data is huge. Full Tilt and Stars were trading blows in late 08 to late 09 in what was an insane period of traffic potentially hitting 125,000 users online at any given time on both networks, that was just poker.
On casino, slots and bingo, the peak network numbers were approximately 60,000 at any given time on the big sites. But that wasn't consistent wagering. I believe it's dropped significantly since I vacated the industry. Skinned sites could make their owners a comfortable living on <1000 users, again though a lot of skins still get their licensing certification from fake regulatory bodies in Kahnawake, or Panama.
The "legit" businesses are all regulated by either Isle Of Man, UK, Malta or Alderney gaming commissions.
If they're a multi country facing operation, and are not regulated by one of the above - chances are they're operating illegally with no proof of customer funds being held in escrow.
There are of course country specific regulations such as in France and Italy where you can only operate online gambling legally by offering it as a separate player pool as your main offering so that only players in that geographical location can play on the country specific platform, no one from the outside can play in it and no one in the country can play on non country specific networks. They audit the software, as much as they're allowed to, and sign off on changes before it goes live. That regulation model is spreading at a huge rate.
The regulation is crazy. I worked a lot on the license applications at Tilt in France and Italy and it was absolutely insane the hoops that had to be jumped through just to get a sub par product on the market.
The reason I bring up regulation in so much depth is because all the b2b suppliers specified above will not offer the software to anyone without the correct licensing in place, and that needs to be provided in advance pre any agreement being signed. So all the "big boys" have licenses to operate in all their jurisdictions legally.
What happens then is because the b2b suppliers have the comfort that these operators have invested all the time, money and effort into obtaining legal licensing on all these markets, they know they're serious and have subsequently got them tied up to long term deals which makes them ultimately unavailable for the likes of funfair to market to.
Don't forget it's not also just about the technology, it has to be a great visual user experience.
That's a big problem because it only leaves rogue or lightly regulated operators as the people funfair could realistically license to, which is never going to encourage widespread adoption.
Its with that in mind that I feel the only potential for the funfair technology to really take off as a main player is to be absorbed by Playtech or Microgaming (or Stars) to introduce the technology into their own offerings OR they come out with a serious marketing budget and play the " how do you know you're not being cheated" card and create such a worldwide buzz in the industry with technology of total transparency that they create a 2.0 bubble, but in my conversations with them directly and with the research I've done, they're holding back on complete transparency - at least for now.
It's interesting for sure, I'll invest in the upcoming - primarily because I do believe in Ethereum significantly as a framework, but not sure for how much."

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