Tallest: 2 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 1 · Minute
South Korea's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 50% |
| Without them | 46 | 20 | 12 | 14 | 62 | 51 | 43.5% |
| Abbas Ali Atwi | Lebanon | 1 |
| Abel Aguilar | Colombia | 1 |
| Adam Straith | Canada | 1 |
| Adem Ljajic | Serbia | 1 |
| Adnan Haidar | Lebanon | 1 |
| Ahmad Al-Saleh | Syria | 1 |
| Ahmad Noorollahi | Iran | 1 |
| Alaa Al-Shbli | Syria | 1 |
| Aleksandar Prijovic | Serbia | 1 |
| Aleksandr Geynrih | Uzbekistan | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 11 Nov 2016 | v Canada | 2–0 | 25′ | — | Extended lead | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 24 Mar 2016 | v Lebanon | 1–0 | 90′ | — | Winning goal | 1–0 | FIFA World Cup qualification 2016 |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 25 Mar 2021 | v Japan | 0–3 | came on 45′ | 45 | — | — | Friendly |
| 5 Sep 2019 | v Georgia | 2–2 | started, off 45′ | 45 | — | — | Friendly |
| 11 Jun 2019 | v Iran | 1–1 | came on 83′ | 7 | — | — | Friendly |
| 14 Nov 2017 | v Serbia | 1–1 | came on 45′ | 45 | — | — | Friendly |
| 10 Nov 2017 | v Colombia | 2–1 | came on 45′ | 45 | — | Yellow | Friendly |
| 28 Mar 2017 | v Syria | 1–0 | came on 73′ | 17 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2017 |
| 23 Mar 2017 | v China PR | 0–1 | started, off 46′ | 46 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2017 |
| 15 Nov 2016 | v Uzbekistan | 2–1 | started, off 67′ | 67 | — | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2016 |
| 11 Nov 2016 | v Canada | 2–0 | started, off 80′ | 80 | 1 | — | Friendly |
| 24 Mar 2016 | v Lebanon | 1–0 | came on 70′ | 20 | 1 | — | FIFA World Cup qualification 2016 |
Caps, goals and cards count what the sources record: line-ups from about 2003 (World Cups from 1970, friendlies from about 2016), and few scorers in older friendlies — so career totals run low.