STAMFORD Conn. October 17 2002 -– World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. today announced live event tour dates for South Korea and Japan in January 2003.

The "WWE® Far East Tour January 2003" will take place at the Jamsil Basketball Stadium in Seoul South Korea on January 23 2003 and the National Yoyogi Stadium (No. 1 Gymnasium) Tokyo on January 24 and 25 2003. Yukes’s Co. Ltd. is the presenting sponsor of the two-day tour in Tokyo. Yukes is the developer of content for WWE® videogames published by THQ.

The "WWE® Far East Tour January 2003" will feature many of the top superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment® including some WWE® Superstars yet to make their debut in Japan and South Korea. The tour card will be announced at an October 31 news conference at which ticket sale dates will be announced.

Total Sports Asia Ltd. WWE’s representative in Asia will coordinate the tour.

"We are excited about returning to Asia following on the heels of the highly successful ‘SmackDown! Tour’ that visited Japan Singapore and Malaysia in March 2002 and played to sellout crowds " said Roger Marment WWE® ’s Executive Vice President International Business Development. "We appreciated the enthusiastic response of our Asian fans and look forward to thanking them by providing them with three exciting events in January."

In appreciation of the support of Japanese fans WWE® is creating its first-ever official fan club outside North America — WWE® Fan Club Japan. "As so many of our fans were unable to obtain tickets to our event in Yokohama earlier this year we have been looking at various ways to ensure our most ardent fans are able to access tickets to WWE® events. We feel that we have a solution and that will be our fan club " Marment said.

Fan club members would be given priority access to tickets at all WWE® events in Japan with a host of benefits that are exclusive to fan club members including specially designed WWE® merchandise travel packages to attend Pay-Per-View events in the United States and free subscriptions to Japanese fan magazines.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: WWE) is an integrated media and entertainment company headquartered in Stamford Conn. with offices in New York City Los Angeles Toronto and London. Additional information on the company can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com.

Total Sports Asia Ltd. is Asia’s leading independent sports marketing company and WWE’s exclusive TV representative and marketing agent. Total Sports Asia also represents WWE in merchandizing licensing and sponsorship throughout Asia. For more information please log on to www.totalsportsasia.com.

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