The World Cup trophy will be on display in Seoul on Monday, but unless you are part of a select elite you won’t have a chance to see it. The trophy will be at the Seoul World Cup Stadium and will be viewed by 2,000 people hand picked by Coca-Cola, the sponsors of the [...]

Commentators in South Korea are talking a lot about Park Ju-young these days. The 21-year-old from FC Seoul has been hailed a genuis by some, but as his recent performance with the national team has shown he still has a long way to go. To be honest, Park played like a donkey during [...]

Well, that one turned out to be a little tougher than we thought. In a game largely dominated by the away side, South Korea downed Syria 2-1 in Aleppo, Syria. Lee Chun-soo’s second-half goal proved to be the game winner as South Korea started its 2007 Asian Cup campaign on a winning note. [...]

Syria is the next opponent for South Korea as the two teams meet in Asian Cup group play today. The two teams have not played each other for 22 years. South Korea will likely employ its usual 4-3-3 formation against Syria’s 4-5-1. Korea’s forward assignments will be Lee Dong-guk at center, Park Ju-young [...]

There is a story today that South Korea coach Dick Advocaat took a pay cut when he left the United Arab Emirates to coach South Korea. The Dutchman isn’t doing too poorly for himself, making an estimated $720,000 for seven months of work. Included in this is $7,000 for food. This will [...]

As World Cup Blog’s Ghana reporter reports, South Korea is likely to face Ghana in a friendly in late May in Scotland. This has left the Ghanian officials a bit unhappy since they wanted the game in London. Seems a bit silly to me since either way the teams will be playing in [...]

After five weeks living out of suitcases on the road, South Korea’s players will be enjoying the comforts of their own beds. The team has returned home after a tour that took them to the Middle East, Hong Kong and the United States. The team is certainly feeling better about itself after defeating [...]

South Korea ended its 41-day overseas training camp with an impressive 1-0 win over Mexico in California. Lee Dong-Gook scored in the 15th minute and keeper Lee Woon-Jae played out of his mind to earn the clean sheet. Woon-Jae, who started in the 1994 and 2002 World Cups, made three saves for the [...]

South Korea will square off tonight against Mexico tonight in a friendly that is being played in California. The game will be shown live on the Mexican station Telemundo for those in North America, as well as on television in South Korea at 12:30pm Thursday afternoon. The game marks the end of a [...]

Park Ji-sung was in Germany yesterday posing in the new Nike kits. He took some time out to talk with reporters. Among the highlights of his conversation, he stressed that despite being a younger team than it was in 2002, Korea is still dangerous and talented. Park also said that coach Dick [...]