In 2002, the red waves rose all of the region in Korea. All the red waves were delighted with each movement of players for a goal. Korea was beaten by Lebanon in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match on November 15, 2011. Have the 2014 World Cup ahead, the 2002 World Cup which was co-hosted by the Korea and Japan come up to many people. Thanks to World Cup in 2002, Korean was evaluated as one of the most dynamic people and they could have opportunity to promote the nation “Korea” to all over the world. The 2002 World Cup, however, didn’t give Korea advantages because of economic, forgetting important problems, and relationship between Korea and Japan.

      Above all, the World Cup didn’t help Korean economic development. Before holding the World Cup, Korea Development Institute predicted that Korea can create 12 trillion won and 350 thousand jobs. This turned out, however, it is just a matter of giant fantasy. The FEER, Far Eastern Economic Review, the economy magazine managed by Dow-Jones said that after the World Cup Korea had to get through the ‘World Cup Slump’ because the enormous investment for building stadium is far from long- term consumption and production.

      Besides, so many social issues were forgotten because of the World Cup’s fever. Vladimir Tihonov who is Oslo National University’s Koreanology professor in Norway stated that the World Cup hid our social lives’ dark sides and just focus on the shown sides. This statement can explain the matter clearly in Korea. At that time Korea had problems such as matter of temporary employee and foreign worker but most of the Koreans concentrated on just the World Cup. Because of this, those problems couldn’t be solved and got even worse. Also, the World Cup caused the local election’s low turnout. It led to political indifference and some parties used it for their authority. According to research at National Election Commission from 20s to 30s elector’s turnout was just 26.3 percent in the vote during the 2002 World Cup. 

       In addition, many experts who study the relationship between Korea and Japan insisted that World Cup was the good chance of improving partnership with Japan because of co-hosting. The partnership, however, didn’t go well. Korea and Japan insisted single host at first but it was miscarried because of extreme competitions between two nations. This competition caused two countries to have more conflicts, as well. Also, Korea and Japan have problems such as territorial dispute of Dok-Do and distorting of history until now.    

      The 2002 World Cup is the event that most Koreans cannot forget forever because of an impressive achievement of Korean national team. Contrastively with this, the 2002 World Cup didn’t bring impressive result to Korean society. The Korean society had to experience World Cup Slump because of an earnest investment. Also, Korean didn’t consider the important issues such as the temporary, foreign worker problem and the local vote. The relationship between Korea and Japan which expected to be better didn’t develop to good way as well. Consequently, the 2002 World Cup isn’t benefit to the Korean society.