South Korea's under-19 team, which finished third in the qualifying tournament, was initially ineligible to play in the final stage of the 1982 AFC Youth Championship.

[1] After winning the tournament, South Korea qualified for the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship as Asian champions.

Manager Park Jong-hwan trained his team with tactics that demanded a lot of endurance and teamwork for the World Youth Championship.

In the quarter-finals, they faced Uruguay, and won the game 2–1 with two extra time goals by Shin Yon-ho.

[7] The name of "Red Devils", the supporters' group for the South Korean national team, was inspired by this story.