Yet Kim Seong Bae, a director in charge of restructuring, still wonders why they are there.

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Chung Seong-hyun, a food vendor in the central Seoul shopping district of Myeongdong, said Chinese is now essential on his menu board.

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South Korea, silver-medallists in 1988 and 1996, earned a last-minute goal through captain Kim Seong-Eun, but it was not enough to keep them in contention for the semi-finals.

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