Semis a bridge too far
Afp, Seoul
Nearly 90 percent of South Koreans think their team will reach the second round of the World Cup but fewer than four percent think the side can make the semi-finals.On home soil in 2002, South Korea reached the last four where they lost to Germany, the hosts this time around. The survey of 1,094 people, conducted by Sports Forum 21 and Global Sports Marketing, two Seoul-based private sports research centres, found that 88.3 percent of South Koreans thought the team would survive the group stage, Yonhap reported. Also, 24.1 percent said they believed the South Korean team would reach the quarterfinals.
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