South Korea national under-20 football team

Having finished the qualifying tournament as third place, South Korea under-19 could not originally play the final stage in the 1982 AFC Youth Championship. However, the North Korean FA was punished with a two-year suspension for assaulting a referee at the 1982 Asian Games by the Asian Football Confederation, so South Korea fortunately advanced to the final stage instead of North Korea, the runners-up.[1] Then they qualified for the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship, after winning the championship. The manager Park Jong-hwan trained his team with tactics which demanded a lot of stamina and extreme teamwork for World Youth Championship.[2] Drawn in a group with Scotland, Australia and the host Mexico, South Korea lost their first game against Scotland, but they advanced to the knockout stage by defeating the other two teams. In the quarter-finals, they faced Uruguay, and won the game 2–1 with a forward Shin Yon-ho's two goals after extra time. The news that they reached the semi-finals for the first time in a FIFA competition became a myth in South Korea,[3] a weak country in sports at that time, although it was a youth competition. The foreign press were also interested in South Korean team's achievement, describing it as the "Red Fury".[4][5] South Korea finished the tournament in fourth place after losing to Brazil and Poland,[6] and a South Korean defender Kim Pan-keun was named in official All-Star Team.[7]

The Inter-Korean Sports Conferences were held on the recommendation of International Olympic Committee since 1963, but the conferences always broke down until the 1980s because both sides had not seen eye to eye. In February 1991, however, their efforts bore fruit for the first time by deciding to make Korean unified teams in table tennis and football.[8] In that same year, both South and North qualified for the FIFA World Youth Championship as winners and runners-up of AFC Youth Championship, so they urgently made allied under-20 football team for the world championship despite concerns about communication and teamwork.[9] Their challenge was ended in the quarter-finals.

The following players were named in the squad for the 2020 AFC U-19 Championship qualification

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Baek Jong-beom	(2001-01-21) 21 January 2001	FC Seoul
12	1GK	Jo Sung-bin	(2001-01-05) 5 January 2001	Jeonnam Dragons
21	1GK	Kim Jeong-hun	(2001-04-20) 20 April 2001	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC
2	2DF	Bak Jin-sung	(2001-05-15) 15 May 2001	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC
3	2DF	Cho Hyun-teak	(2001-08-02) 2 August 2001	Shingal High School
4	2DF	Nam Yun-jae	(2001-04-13) 13 April 2001	Jeonnam Dragons
5	2DF	Oh Sang-jun	(2001-02-02) 2 February 2001	Busan IPark
6	2DF	Kim Sang-jun	(2001-10-01) 1 October 2001	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
14	2DF	Gwon Seong-yun	(2001-03-30) 30 March 2001	FC Seoul
15	2DF	Choi Won-chang	(2001-05-09) 9 May 2001	Incheon United FC
17	2DF	Lee Jin-young	(2001-05-01) 1 May 2001	Daegu FC
19	2DF	Kim Ju-hwan	(2001-02-17) 17 February 2001	Pohang Steelers
22	2DF	Choi Se-yun	(2001-01-11) 11 January 2001	Incheon United FC
7	3MF	Go Young-joon	(2001-07-09) 9 July 2001	Pohang Steelers
8	3MF	Kwon Hyeok-kyu	(2001-03-13) 13 March 2001	Busan IPark
10	3MF	Hwang Jae-hwan	(2001-04-12) 12 April 2001	Ulsan Hyundai FC
11	3MF	Kwon Min-jae	(2001-06-11) 11 June 2001	Busan IPark
13	3MF	Park Gun-woo	(2001-08-09) 9 August 2001	Pohang Steelers
16	3MF	Lee Kang-hee	(2001-08-24) 24 August 2001	Sinpyeong High School
23	3MF	An Jae-jun	(2001-04-03) 3 April 2001	Ulsan Hyundai FC
9	4FW	Jung Han-min	(2001-01-08) 8 January 2001	FC Seoul
18	4FW	Oh Hyun-gyu	(2001-04-12) 12 April 2001	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
20	4FW	Heo Yool	(2001-04-12) 12 April 2001	Gwangju FC