Young four and five-year-old children play a friendly game of soccer underneath colorful hanging paper lanterns at the Chogye Temple on May 15, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. The game is known as the Little Monk Soccer Match and is part of the celebration surrounding '21 Days of Little Monk' which honors Buddha's birt View more »
South Korea's World Cup qualifying highlights
South Korea coach Huh Jung-moo has named two English-based players in his 30-man preliminary squad for this summer's World Cup in South Africa.
Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-Sung and Bolton winger Lee Chung-Yong were both named in the initial group.
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Underdog: Park Ji-Sung continues to prove his doubters wrong and contributed five goals to South Korea's qualifying campaign Caps: 84Goals: 11World Cup appearances: 10 (2002, 2006)World Cup 2010 qualification: 11 appearances/5 goals
Club: Manchester UnitedAge: 28Position: Midfielder
There were strong suspic View more »
South Korea qualified easily for a seventh consecutive World Cup, but they lack the firepower to hurt the big beasts.
The good times: South Korea reached the World Cup semi-finals on home soil in 2002 South Korea World Cup record: 1954 1st rd, 1986 1st rd, 1990 1st rd, 1994 1st rd, 1998 1st rd, 2002 4th, 2006 View more »
Once the Taeguk Warriors' automatic choices up front, at present Ahn Jung-Hwan and Lee Dong-Gook are nervously waiting for their chances to take part in what would probably be their last FIFA World Cup™. The two strikers used to work in tandem with one another during the qualifying for Germany 2006, but four year View more »