THE ocean breeze plays with Catherine Kho's hair. She sits sipping a glass of chilled mango juice, relaxing on a couch in a luxurious resort in Bintan, in the Riau islands. The holiday taken by this 32-year-old Singaporean lady is not just a random splurge. Catherine Kho is escaping the hullabaloo that comes with the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

There was nothing she could do to stop her husband, a die-hard soccer fan, from flying to South Korea to