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The South Korea national football team played its first home match at the Dongdaemun Stadium on the 21st of April 1956. That fixture was a qualifier for the 1956 AFC Asian Cup against the Philippines.
The South Korea national football team has won two AFC Asian Cup titles in 1956 and 1960 while finishing as runners-up four times. The squad emerged as a major football power in Asia since the 1980s.
In 2002 South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup alongside Japan and became the first and only Asian team to reach the semi-finals during that tournament. They earned the award for Most Entertaining Team at the event despite controversy surrounding their path to the semi-final.
Cha Bum-kun is South Korea's top goalscorer with 58 goals across 136 caps during his career spanning 1971 to 1986. Cha Bum-kun was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Korea Football Association in 2005 alongside other legends like Kim Yong-sik and Lee Hoe-taik.
South Korea's biggest rival is Japan with an all-time series record of 42 wins 23 draws and 17 losses. Matches between these two nations often carry political weight beyond the pitch.