South Korea beat Japan in WorldCup tune-up

May 24, 2010 09:08 pm | Updated 09:08 pm IST - Saitama, Japan

South Korea won 2-0 in Japan on Monday in a tune-up match of the 2002 World Cup host nations.

Manchester United’s Park Ji-Sung opened the scoring six minutes into the game and Park Chu-Young of Monaco wrapped up matters with a last-minute penalty in Saitama.

South Korea, who now move on to a training camp in Austria, meet Greece, Argentina and Nigeria in group B at the June 11-July 11 tournament in South Africa. Japan play Cameroon, the Netherlands and Denmark in group E.

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