Eight hundred members of Korea's national guard formed a human tunnel to allow the squad to walk into Incheon Airport without any hint of danger on Friday.
A suffocating security blanket has been thrown over the team hotel.
Everybody is searched on the way into a lobby liberally sprinkled with unsmiling, gun-toting members of the army and police.
Nothing has been left to chance and the attention to detail is appreciated the by the players.
"A lot of the guys are very happy to see all the security considering what is going on in the world", Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper Brad Friedel told BBC Sport Online.