The Korea Football Association (KFA), the country’s football governing body, has already contacted Farias, Sports Hochi said, adding that both sides will begin full-fledged negotiations in the coming days.
The KFA, however, dismissed the report as untrue.
Under Farias, the Pohang Steelers won K League 2007, Korean FA Cup 2008, K League Cup 2009 and AFC Champions League 2009, and placed third in FIFA Club World Cup 2009.
The post of head coach for South Korea’s national football squad has been vacant since Hong Myung-bo resigned on July 10 after the team went winless in Group H preliminary matches of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, its worst World Cup performance since 1998.
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Park Sae-jin
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