place_of_birth choi sung-hwan
The K League Challenge is a South Korean professional league for association football clubs . Being the second tier ___MASK54___ the South Korean football league system , it is currently contested by ten clubs , and operates on a system ___MASK54___ promotion and relegation with the K League Classic . The Korean FA Cup is a national cup knockout competition involving K League Classic , K League Challenge , National League , and various amateur and university - level clubs , which is held annually by the ___MASK73___ Football Association ( KFA ). Its previous format began in 1921 , as the All ___MASK31___ Football Tournament ( 1921  1940 ) and became the National Football Championship ( 1946  2000 ), but the FA Cup in it present format began in 1996 . The KFA merged its cup competition with the FA Cup in 2000 . The winner gains entry to the Asian Champions League . ___MASK58___ is a province in the southeast ___MASK54___ South Korea . The provincial capital is at Changwon . It is adjacent to the major metropolitan ___MASK43___ and port ___MASK54___ Busan . There is UNESCO World Heritage Site Haeinsa , a Buddhist temple that houses the " Tripitaka Koreana " and attracts many tourists . Automobile and petrochemical factories are largely concentrated along the southern part ___MASK54___ the province , extending from Ulsan through Busan , Changwon , and Jinju . ___MASK95___ Samsung Bluewings is a South Korean football club based in the city ___MASK54___ ___MASK95___ , South Korea , that plays in the K League Classic . Founded in December 1995 , they have become one ___MASK54___ Asian football ' s most famous clubs with a host ___MASK54___ domestic and continental honours . ___MASK95___ have won the championship on four occasions , in 1998 , 1999 , 2004 and 2008 . Choi Sung - Hwan ( Korean :  ; born 6 October 1981 ) is a South Korean football defender , who plays for Gyeongnam FC in K League Challenge . His previous club was ___MASK96___ FC , ___MASK95___ Samsung Bluewings , Ulsan Hyundai and Gwangju FC . ___MASK8___ , officially the ___MASK70___ ___MASK54___ Korea ( ROK ), is a sovereign state in East Asia , constituting the southern part ___MASK54___ the Korean Peninsula . Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , is a team sport played between two teams ___MASK54___ eleven players with a spherical ball . It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies , making it the world ' s most popular sport . The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end . The object ___MASK54___ the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal . ___MASK96___ , (  ,  , literally ' large hill ') formerly spelled Taegu , and officially known as the ___MASK96___ Metropolitan City , is a city in ___MASK8___ , the fourth largest after ___MASK66___ , Busan , and Incheon , and the third largest metropolitan area in the nation with over 2 . 5 million residents . ___MASK96___ is the principal city of the surrounding North Gyeongsang Province . The two areas combined are often referred to as ___MASK96___ - Gyeongbuk , with a total population of over 5 million . ___MASK75___ is the ___MASK12___ ___MASK54___ Gyeongsangnam - do , South Korea . ___MASK75___ is the 8th most populated city in South Korea , with an established population ___MASK54___ 1 , 089 , 039 people in 2010 . It encompasses a land area ___MASK54___ on the southeastern coast ___MASK54___ South Korea . The population ___MASK54___ southeastern Korea , including the city ___MASK54___ Busan , is more than 6 , 478 , 000 . ___MASK75___ is known as a heavy industrial city . The city only covers 7 % ___MASK54___ Gyeongsangnam - do province , also known as Gyeongnam , but holds 33 . 6 % ___MASK54___ its population ; it also accounted for 38 . 5 % ___MASK54___ the total 2 . 1821 trillion won budget ___MASK54___ the Gyeongnam province . Gyeongnam FC is a South Korean football club based in Gyeongsangnam - do . Its ___MASK99___ stadium is in Changwon , the capital ___MASK54___ South Gyeongsang Province . Gyeongnam FC was founded in 2006 and joined the K - League as its 14th club for the 2006 season . ___MASK95___ ( Hangul :  , Hanja :  ) is the capital and largest metropolis ___MASK54___ Gyeonggi - do , South Korea ' s most populous province which surrounds ___MASK66___ , the national capital . ___MASK95___ lies about south ___MASK54___ ___MASK66___ . It is traditionally known as " The City ___MASK54___ Filial Piety ". With a population close to 1 . 2 million , it is larger than Ulsan , although it is not governed as a metropolitan city . ___MASK96___ Football Club , commonly referred to as ___MASK96___ FC ( Korean :  FC ), is a South Korean professional football club based in ___MASK96___ . The club was founded as a community club at the end ___MASK54___ 2002 , and the club made their K League Classic debut in 2003 . Historically , ___MASK96___ have always placed in the lower reaches ___MASK54___ the K League Classic . Their best season in the K League Classic to date was 2006 , when they finished in 7th place ( out ___MASK54___ 14 teams ), as well as reaching the quarter - finals ___MASK54___ the Korean FA Cup . Two years later , in 2008 , ___MASK96___ reached the semi - finals ___MASK54___ the Korean FA Cup , but lost to the Pohang Steelers . At the end ___MASK54___ the 2013 season ___MASK96___ was relegated to the K League Challenge . They were promoted back to the K League Classic in 2016 . The K League Classic is one ___MASK54___ South Korea ' s professional association football leagues . At the top ___MASK54___ the South Korean football league system , it is the country ' s highest and most prestigious level ___MASK54___ football competition currently contested by 12 clubs . Asia is Earth ' s largest and ___MASK51___ populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass ___MASK54___ Eurasia with the continent ___MASK54___ Europe . Asia covers an area ___MASK54___ , about 30 % ___MASK54___ Earth ' s total land area and 8 . 7 % ___MASK54___ the Earth ' s total surface area . The continent , which has long been home to the majority ___MASK54___ the human population , was the site ___MASK54___ many ___MASK54___ the first civilizations . Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent ___MASK54___ 4 . 4 billion people . ___MASK34___ Steelers is a South Korean professional football club based in ___MASK34___ , North Gyeongsang . They were originally called " ___MASK34___ Steelworks ", after the ___MASK34___ Iron and Steel Company that owned it . The club was founded in 1973 and is one ___MASK54___ Korean football ' s most successful sides . In sports leagues , promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between two divisions based on their performance for the completed season . The ___MASK90___ - ranked team ( s ) in the lower division are " promoted " to the higher division for the next season , and the worst - ranked team ( s ) in the higher division are " relegated " to the lower division for the next season . In some leagues , playoffs or qualifying rounds are also used to determine rankings . This process can continue through several levels ___MASK54___ divisions , with teams being exchanged between levels 1 and 2 , levels 2 and 3 , levels 3 and 4 , and so on . During the season , teams that are high enough in the league table that they would qualify for promotion are sometimes said to be in the " promotion zone ", and those at the bottom are in the " relegation zone " ( or , colloquially , the " drop zone " or " facing the drop ").