South Korea bags bronze

South Korea won men’s football Olympic bronze medal defeating Japan 2-0 on Friday.

Park Chu-young and Koo Ja-cheol scored the goals.

The bronze was South Korea's first football medal at the games. Japan has also won just one medal, also a bronze, in 1968, the last time an Asian time got an Olympic award.

The result: Bronze medal match: South Korea 2 bt Japan 0. — AP