Park Yong-woo is the latest Korean international to pass through TNT FC's doors, but he is certainly not the first. The Ulsan HD midfielder spent this summer training with TNT as he worked his way back to full fitness - prompting one question: just how many big names have used TNT as their training ground over the years?
Following an injury last year, Korea international midfielder Park Yong-woo joined TNT FC this summer as a training member as he prepared for his return to football. Training alongside TNT's younger players, Park worked to raise his match fitness before eventually rejoining Ulsan HD.
With TNT FC run like a professional club, it provides the ideal environment for players to keep themselves ticking over. Park isn't the only current or former international who has trained with TNT FC over the years.
TNT FC has clearly become a kind of unofficial "training/refresher home" for established Korean pros, particularly when they're between clubs, recovering from injury, or preparing to return.
The original TNT model was essentially "give players somewhere serious to train when they don't have a club." So for someone like Ki Sung-yueng, it wasn't that he was joining TNT because he needed to find a club. He was essentially using their established training environment while he was between FC Seoul contracts.

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