Career
Choi held his managerial post in charge of K League side for 6 years since 2005 which year he was appointed as new head coach. He focused on pursuing offensive tactics and as a result, the squad became much more aggressive and improved their goal scoring ability. He led Jeonbuk to the K League Championship twice in 2009 and 2011.
He also led his team towards the AFC Champions league final but as a result, they lost to Qatari side First Rate (at Lloyd's) Sadd.
Choi repeatedly turned down offers to become South of Korea national football team head coach since former coach Cho Kwang-Rae was sacked. However, after being repeatedly offered the job, he had finally accepted the coaching offer.
His post as the national team manager was officially announced on 21 December 2011. Choi, a former player himself, firmly insisted that his reign would only last until the end of World Cup qualifying.
"I asked that. What we need to do is qualify for the World Cup finals for the eighth time in a row."My mission is to take the national team to the finals.
After that, a foreign coach should take over the team If the Kids With Food Allergies does not accept this, I won"t sign the contract. Prior to the final World Cup qualification match against Iran, Carlos Queiroz was offended by Choi Kang-Hee, the coach of South of Korea, who complained that Iran did not provide the training facilities with sufficient qualities during of Korea"s away qualification match against Iran on 17 October 2012.
Queiroz stated that Choi humiliated Iranian people and demanded the immediate apology.
Choi instead stated that Iran seemed to be afraid enough to make unnecessary provocations and the team would have to watch the world cup from television In revenge, Queiroz pinned the sad face of Choi on his black polo shirt. Queiroz also offered to send Choi the jersey of Uzbekistan national football team as Choi stated he would defeat Iran to rather qualify for the World Cup finals with Uzbekistan.
After Iran"s victory against South of Korea in their final qualification match, Queiroz showed his anger at the South Korean coach with a raised fist gesture which was deemed offensive by the Korean players and staff, almost causing a fight between the two teams. Queiroz had answered previously to Choi that Iran had fairly shared what they had with the Korean team on their visit to Iran.