South Korea scraped into the Asian Cup quarter-finals with a 1-0 win over Indonesia in their final Group D game on Wednesday.
The victory, coupled with Saudi Arabia's 4-0 hammering of Bahrain, sent the 2002 World Cup semifinalists into last eight after going into the last round of matches bottom of the standings.
Kim Jung-woo scored the priceless goal for South Korea in the 34th minute, but they were made to sweat in a torrid second half as Indonesia threw everything into attack.
South Korea were the stronger team throughout at a hostile Gelora Bung Karno Stadium but failed once again to kill the game off. The Koreans had surrendered one-goal leads to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in earlier group games.  South Korea had the best of the early exchanges, but Indonesia's counterattacks were posing a problem and Elie Aiboy should have done better than curl the ball over the bar on the half hour.  The co-hosts were made to pay when Korea took the lead four minutes later.
Lee Chun-soo floated past three half-hearted challenges and laid the ball off to midfielder Kim. His crisp shot from the edge of the area took the slightest of deflections on the way past goalkeeper Muhammad Ridwan.
South Korea face Group C winners Iran in the quarterfinals in Malaysia on Sunday.
Uzbek stun China
Earlier, Uzbekistan knocked Group C favourites China out with a stunning 3-0 upset victory, adds Reuters from Kuala Lumpur.
Dynamo Kiev striker Maksim Shatskikh, Pakhtakor midfielder Timur Kapadze and veteran Alexander Geynrikh scored late in the second half to break the hearts of the 2004 runners-up.
Iran finished top of the group on seven points after their 2-0 win over co-hosts Malaysia, with Uzbekistan second on six points. China finished with four points and Malaysia lost all three matches.
China needed only a draw to reach the quarterfinals, while Uzbekistan, needed to win.  Uzbekistan will travel to Jakarta to face Saudi Arabia in the quarterfinals on Sunday. Iran stay in Malaysia to take on South Korea.