The World Cup came to a successful close.

The whole nation applauded a national team whose overwhelming achievement had made a mockery of the phrase co-hosting.

People rated this World Cup highly for having given hope to a population that had spent a long stretch of time in pain.

And the new supporting culture of street cheering had planted the idea that if everyone gathered with one heart and one purpose, there was nothing they could not accomplish.

[Decoration to be conferred on Ilhyeon Group for the successful hosting of the World Cup and the creation of street-cheering culture]

[Announced that the Mugunghwa Medal of the Order of Civil Merit will be conferred on Ilhyeon Group Chairman Tak-hyeon Lee, and the Blue Dragon Medal of the Order of Sport Merit on Mr. Seong-ho Kim, for his efforts on behalf of the squad within the support committee]

[Accounts are steadily emerging that Mr. Seong-ho Kim, Chairman Tak-hyeon Lee's youngest son-in-law, made the single greatest contribution to driving this World Cup semifinal run. He is said to have spared no form of support in bringing the squad to peak condition, to have personally arranged the opposition for the friendlies, and to have accompanied the team to its overseas training camp, where he oversaw every aspect of the players' condition. He donated the enormous sum of 50 billion won to the government-formed support committee, becoming the driving force that allowed the committee to function in practice, and multiple testimonies have revealed that he acted as the manager who handled everything so that the squad need not concern itself with anything beyond the matches. It has also come to light, to widespread astonishment, that the originator of street cheering was Mr. Seong-ho Kim as well]

The government spared no praise for Ilhyeon Group, which had been of great help in the successful hosting of the World Cup, and there was not a single person who quibbled with the government's decision.

Tak-hyeon Lee went without saying; but people who had learned how hard Seong-ho Kim had worked for this World Cup went so far as…