(1)Korea expressed interest in holding the event in the form of co-hosting with neighboring countries such as China and Japan On March 2, 2017, Chung Mong-kyu, chairman of the Korea Football Association, proposed co-hosting the event in four countries: South Korea, North Korea, China and Japan #And on June 12, President Moon Jae In proposed to jointly host the 2030 World Cup in Northeast Asia, including South Korea, China and Japan, at a meeting with FIFA President Gianni Infantino who is visiting Korea because of the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup #However, as China and Japan reacted with skepticism and the relationship between the South and the North deteriorated, the joint plan between the two Koreas, China and Japan became virtually impossible to realizeimage text translation
(2)President Moon Jae In , who visited Russia as a state guest on June 23, 2018, met with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Mexico Exhibition and mentioned the co-hosting of the 2030 FIFA World Cup Chairman Infantino responded that he should prepare from now on, and recently, due to various favorable factors, it began to be said that the inter-Korean relationship has rapidly thawed and become a reality #
(3)On September 13, 2018, Do Jong-hwan, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, attended the 2nd Korea-Japan-China Sports Ministers’ Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, and proposed to Japan and China a plan to jointly host the 2030 or 2034 North-China-Japan World Cup #
(4)In Japan, there was an opinion that the three countries, Korea, China, and Japan, excluding North Korea, would jointly consider holding the event # However, there seems to be little repercussion in Japan’s domestic . In the first place, the eyes of the Japanese are now on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Pick, so it seems difficult to focus on attracting the World Cup right away
Is it far from being co-hosted by South Korea, China, and Japan?