Park Ji-sung's transfer to English soccer power Manchester United is this year's top sports story in the nation.

In a Yonhap News Agency poll of 70 sportswriters and broadcasters nationwide, 38 picked Park's move as number one as soccer headlines grabbed four of the top ten spots.

The resignation under pressure of Jo Bonfrere as national soccer coach was second and third went to the heartbreaking pro debut of female golf prodigy Michelle Wie, in which she was disqualified for a minor scorecard error.

Fourth place went to the soccer team's sixth straight advance to the World Cup and fifth to the emergence of young dynamo Park Chu-young on the soccer scene.

Sixth went to the K-1 debut of former ssirum wrestling champion Choi Hong-man and seventh the Korean Series win by first-year Samsung Lions manager Sun Dong-yol.

The 100th career win of U.S. Major League Baseball pitcher Park Chan-ho, the proposed inter-Korean single athletic team and heightened exchanges and the International Olympic Committee's dropping of Kim Un-yong as an executive member rounded out the top ten.