Surely it can't be difficult to get attendance figures for Korea's baseball and football leagues. Even TV viewing figures for the sports would be helpful. I don't think it's right to claim football is a popular sport based only on support for the national team. The claim should be backed up with figures for K-league attendances, TV audiences for football generally (I understand European club football matches are more popular than domestic ones), or even statistics for numbers who play football regularly. If it were to be measured on interest and support for the national team alone, then it would be just as popular a sport as figure skating, baseball, speed skating, or any other sport in which Korea has reasonable international success.     