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Now there were a lot of Chinese posters here who despise S Korean soccer. A lot of this has to do with the fact that the Chinese team do particularly poorly against south korea. They dont have this when they play against the arabs or japanese, but their media is absolutely unforgiving when they lose to Korea.
I solute your overall knowledge of Asian football. But I don't agree with this. Nowadays Chinese team will have little chance against Japan but can beat South Korea sometimes (3:0 of a recent friendly game). And due to historical reasons, Chinese have much more negative feelings against Japan so I don't think emotion is a big factor. The reason I don't like Korean soccer is that I see no hope in the team from the way they are playing. But Japan is very different, as you mentioned, they play like "Spain" and their game is enjoyable. South Korea won 4th in 2002 world cup but very few people out of Korea believes they deserve it. The fact that they can beat China doesn't mean they are that good.
Austrialia plays ugly as well. Personally I could only enjoy games from following Asian teams: Japan, Saudi Arab, Iran and Turkey (half Asia).