South Korea - 2010 FIFA World Cup: 32 Teams, 1 Dream

In 2002, South Korea made a run at the FIFA World Cup that many will never forget. Now the "Taeguk Warriors" are hoping they do it again in South Africa.

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• 2010 FIFA World Cup
• South Africa
• ESPN
• Djimon Hounsou
• one game changes everything
• South Korea
• Taeguk Warriors
• Red Wave
• Park Ji-Sung

[Superstarrockmetal]

@paolo0113 Korea also suffered from bad refereeing many times in WCs. (ie. Korea vs Switzerland 2006) During Italy vs Korea 1986, Italy deceived the referee by diving on the Korean penalty area, got a "free" penalty, and the score ended up being 3:2. No one (No European) talks about it now, as if Asian teams didn't deserve such an achievement anyway, in the first place. It's always ok when white teams get unfair advantage over Asian teams, but the converse regarded as something like "blasphemy"

[Superstarrockmetal]

@gunsnrosesrocks877 During Italy vs Korea, 2002 - The first player to get a yellow card was KimTaeYoung. The thing is, he's also the only player in the match to get seriously injured by an opponent, and completely ignored by the referee. His nose was broken by Totti, who elbowed him when they both jumped to head the ball. The Italian who bled collided with a fellow Italian. Just watch it.

Start watching the actual match "Korea vs Italy Part 1". Seeing is believing

[nILLBMSQ]

south korea! im looking forward to the 2014 world cup

[Headcheezonium]

South Korea rules! Too bad the Italians forever ruined them with their stupidity.

[911sergios]

i respect Korea :)

[AsianAwesome69]

@BurnRoddy respect to you. It was a thrilling match for us too. Much more clean than a lot of other matches throughout the cup.

[truesky00]

damn, dirty Japanese trolls everywhere....

[chivaskyogre]

im mexicecan but i go for soyth korea too. i have korean frainds

[yuuniee]

watching this makes me so proud.... TT

[7RMadridfan]

How much you ppl wanna bet S. Korea is gonna be the 1st asian country to win the world cup? :)

[gonsuy]

wel... S. Korea defeating Italy and spain HUGE LOL...it was clear that referee and Fifa had A LOTTTT of preassure from asia