Erling Haaland picture highlights Man City's huge growth in South Korea

It really has been eye-opening to see just how popular Man City have become in Japan and South Korea.

Fresh off the back of their record-breaking trip to Tokyo, the Blues have wasted no time picking up where they left off with even more mania in Seoul.

23,000 fans attended the club's open training session on Saturday, further evidence of the club's huge popularity in this market. Earlier in the day, thousands of fans packed inside the Puma store for a special club event with six players, and queues of hundreds waited just to get inside a photobooth that had been decked out in club colours.

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That popularity could rise even further in the coming years, with City extremely savvy in its commercial commitments here. Hugely popular South Korean media personalities have been invited to vlog behind-the-scenes, and Erling Haaland posed for pictures with K-Pop star Jisoo, who has 74 million Instagram followers of her own.

The club has also collaborated on Roblox with another K-Pop band (ask your kids), further clever moves to generate huge interest in an untapped market. This increased popularity is even more impressive when you consider the affection for Son Heung-min at Tottenham, as well as the time Park Ji-sung spent on the other side of Manchester.

Pep Guardiola was asked about Son during his pre-match press conference, which came as no surprise. Rather than hint at a potential transfer, though, he simply joked about all the times they'd been tormented by him. Deep down, you can't help but think Son could be the perfect addition to this City side in so many ways.

There was a moment when it looked like we wouldn't even make it to the press conference in the first place. We had spent