72 years later, South Korea suffer consecutive goalless defeats and losses at the World Cup again

In the third round of the World Cup group stage, South Korea faced South Africa and ultimately lost 0–1. With this defeat, South Korea’s group-stage results in this tournament were: a 2–1 comeback win over Czechia in the first match, a 0–1 loss to Mexico in the second, and a 0–1 loss to South Africa in the third, finishing third in the group.

According to South Korean media statistics, after this match, South Korea have gone 72 years without consecutive World Cup matches without scoring and without winning. The last time South Korea experienced consecutive goalless defeats at a World Cup was in 1954 (their first-ever World Cup appearance), when they lost 0–9 to Hungary and 0–7 to Turkey.