South Korea surprisingly progressed together with Portugal into the knockout stage after beating them by 2:1 at Education City stadium.
South Korea sealed their qualification after Uruguay defeated Ghana in the other group game, but Uruguay were shot on goal scored
Portugal topped Group H with six points after winning their first two games against Ghana and Uruguay to secure their place in the next round.
Although coach Paulo Bento wasn't on the bench but his men reacted quickly after going down by 1:0 to stage a perfect comeback.
Ricardo Horta tapped home on the 5th minute from Diogo Dalot's silky pass to hand Portugal an early lead.
Referee disallowed Jin-Su Kim's leveller for offside on the 17th minute.
Young-Gwon Kim slotted in in the middle of the post on the 27th minute, from a rebound of Heung-min Son's corner to equalise for South Korea.
Eight minutes later, Diogo Dalot forced Seung-Gyu Kim to pull off a brilliant save at the bottom left corner to deny Portugal from reclaiming their lead.
Seung-Gyu stopped Vitinha's terrific strike in the middle if the post before Cristiano Ronaldo's headed wide of the left post on the 42nd minute.
Hee-Chan Hwang fired home the winner to send Japan into the round 16 after chancing on loose ball just inside the box on the first minute of the additional time.
By: Abdul Razak Salim
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