Kang-In Lee and Heung-min Son came to blows during a collective meal on February 5. South Korea were eliminated from the Asian Cup the next day.
The two men tried to clear up the matter via two almost simultaneous messages on their social networks. Lee: "I behaved in a way that I shouldn't have at the dinner table that day" Son: "Please forgive him. If the same situation happened again, I would act in the same way, because it is one of the duties of the captain"