South Korea at the FIFA World Cup
This is a record of the South Korea's results at the FIFA World Cup. South Korea have appeared in the FIFA World Cup on ten occasions in 1954 and 1986 to 2018. Their best ever performance is a fourth place in the 2002 tournament co-hosted at home soil and at Japan. This made them the first ever team to end in fourth place in its own World Cup. South Korea is also the first team outside Europe and the Americas in reaching the top 4 of a FIFA World Cup in the history as well.
South Korea also advanced to the round of 16 in the World Cup 2010, ending the group stage in 2nd place with 4 points. South Korea also beat Germany 2-0 to eliminate Germany in the FIFA World Cup 2018 group stage.
Summary
Statistics
Matches
Records
World records
Goalscoring- Fastest goal conceded from kickoff
- Most goals conceded, one tournament
- Lowest goal difference, one tournament
- Biggest margin of loss
- Biggest upset in the knockout stage, per FIFA rankings
- Biggest upset of a defending champion, per FIFA rankings
- Biggest upset of a top ranked team, per FIFA rankings
Match records
Head-to-head records
Awards
South Korea is the only Asian team to ever win a team award at a FIFA World Cup when they were voted the Most Entertaining Team in 2002 after finishing in fourth place. In the same year, Hong Myung-bo and Yoo Sang-chul have been voted members of the All Star Team. They are the only Asians ever to have been named in a All-Star Team. Hong also received the Bronze Ball award for the first time among Asian players.Most capped players
Top goalscorers
Details
Switzerland 1954
SquadGroup stage
| Team | Qualification | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | +14 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 9 | –2 | 2 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | –16 | 0 |
Mexico 1986
SquadGroup stage
| Team | Qualification | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 2 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 1 |
Italy 1990
SquadGroup stage
| Team | Qualification | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |
United States 1994
SquadGroup stage
| Team | Qualification | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 1 |
France 1998
SquadGroup stage
| Team | Qualification | ||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 1 |
South Korea–Japan 2002
SquadGroup stage
| Team | Qualification | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 3 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 3 |
Knockout Stage
Germany 2006
SquadGroup stage
| Team | Qualification | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |
South Africa 2010
SquadGroup stage
| Team | Qualification | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | –1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | –3 | 3 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | –2 | 1 |
Knockout Stage
Brazil 2014
Group H
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Russia 2018
S.Koreans were out from round 1 in the World Cup 2018 but Korea got the great result in this World Cup now:S.Koreans beat Germany in FIFA World Cup 2018 so they are being unique Asian country to beat Germany in W.C.Group F
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