{"id":13661,"date":"2026-05-12T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/13661\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:10:22","slug":"play-rugby-in-north-korea-pyongyang-reds-rfc-seeks-overseas-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/13661\/","title":{"rendered":"Play rugby in North Korea: Pyongyang Reds RFC seeks overseas players"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korean side Pyongyang Reds RFC are recruiting players for the Autumn season and are inviting international applications through long-running organisation China Rugby Recruitment.
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China Rugby Recruitment has ties to Chinese clubs Beijing Ducks and Shenzhen Pirates and has a video on their Instagram account of ex-Yokohama Canon Eagles scrum-half Faf de Klerk promoting opportunities to play and teach in China.
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Pyongyang Reds RFC are\u00a0looking for players in all positions and are offering a package that includes providing players with a full-time job as an English teacher and a competitive monthly salary. Flight allowance and a \u2018food ration package\u2019 is provided by the employer.
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Successful applicants will play in the Pyongyang Cup and DRPK Cup and will be expected to arrive in August or September.
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Applicants must hold a passport from Britain, South Africa, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada or America.
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Ex-England wing Jonny May, who now plays for Soyaux Angoul\u00eame in France\u2019s second division, famously had an invitation in 2017 from the North Korean Embassy to arrange a VIP tour to the country.
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North Korea won six medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, claiming silver medals in table tennis and diving as well as two bronze medals in wrestling. They completed their haul with a bronze medal in boxing and the same colour medal in diving.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to apply\u00a0or email recruitment@bd-rugby.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korean side Pyongyang Reds RFC are recruiting players for the Autumn season and are inviting international applications…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[129],"class_list":{"0":"post-13661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pyongyang","8":"tag-pyongyang"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}