Korean coach Park Hang Seo is now the brand ambassador of Samsung in Vietnam.

CEO of Samsung Vina Electronics Co., Ltd., Park Cheol Gi (L) and coach Park Hang Seo. (Photo: Samsung Vina)

According to Samsung Vina, the coach will attend product and brand promotion campaigns of Samsung and its activities that contribute to Vietnamese community during this year.

Park Hang-seo, born in 1959, used to be a player of the RoK national team before starting the professional coaching career. He was known as the No.1 assistant of Guus Hiddink, who led the RoK team to the semi-finals of the World Cup 2002 and the RoK’s U23 team to win the bronze medal at the Asian Games in the same year.

Park and his teams obtained many achievements at different tournaments of the RoK. Notably, he set a record in 2013 when he led the Sangju Sangmu FC with all players being RoK citizens to win 11 consecutive victories at the K.League Challenge.

Park is currently the head coach of Vietnam national Olympic football team and Vietnam national under-23 football team.

He helped Vietnam’s U23 team claim second place at the AFC U23 Championship 2018 that concluded in China recently./.

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