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S.Koreans look to future SEOUL, Wednesday (Reuters) - South Koreans wasted little time moping on Wednesday after their soccer team's extraordinary World Cup adventure ended and focused instead on how to tap the energy unleashed by millions of "Red Devil" fans who backed the side. Germany beat South Korea 1-0 in Tuesday's semi-final in Seoul, ending a remarkable run that began with limited expectations of a first World Cup win for the Asian side and ended one stop short of Sunday's final in Yokohama, Japan. "In the end, the South Korean Express simply ran out of steam, the Korea Times newspaper said in a story on how united Germany won its first ticket to the final on the day South Korea marked the start of the war that divided it from the North. It may have been "game over" for high-tech South Korea, but disappointed yet proud South Koreans, in the media and on the streets, kept things in perspective and saw the bigger picture. "We need to relax all that passion and excitement and think about how we have created some beautiful history," said the newspaper Chosun Ilbo in an editorial. |
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