Mashable: The football star reportedly had to switch off his phone because he was receiving too many marriage proposals.

South Korean striker Cho Gue-sung's popularity unexpectedly increased after South Korea and Ghana's FIFA World Cup 2022 encounter. Through his charisma, the 24-year-old was able to steal the show and is now an internet heartthrob.

Cho Gue-sung, who was playing in his first FIFA World Cup, is a forward for Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and the South Korean national team. According to reports, the football star had to switch off his phone because he was receiving too many marriage proposals.

At the beginning of the FIFA World Cup, he had around 20,000 Instagram followers, while at the time of writing this he has 2.5 million followers.

Many people who were unfamiliar with his name began referring to him as "Player no 9" just because of his jersey number. Twitter got flooded with videos of the football star with fans drooling over his looks.

Check out a few tweets here:

Well at least ChoGuesung won our heartspic.twitter.com/iiq0NcSrpn

— Maryam (@txtgenleaders) December 5, 2022
Cho Gue-sung’s fancam already has over 6M views lol pic.twitter.com/L4B2JI3Te1

— Hyunsu Yim (@hyunsuinseoul) November 28, 2022
People discovering the 9 of Korea Cho Gue-sung.... I saw that is a trend  pic.twitter.com/QCabkrXEe3

— sexyfoxy0901 (@jemin1130) November 24, 2022
When I first saw his instagram account he had 40k, now he's on 1 million in just a few days. Cho Gue-sung, the powerful man that you are! Thank you for the 2 beautiful goals and making history today, king. Now, accept my hand in marriage #WorldcupQatar2022 #SouthKoreaghana pic.twitter.com/u91GBL1dbb

— cho guesung (@csynthpop) November 28, 2022
korea is losing but atleast they have cho gue sung pic.twitter.com/81bFr923CS

— BOYZ  (@dukyuality) December 5, 2022
he was wildin' out today but i ain't complaining.. marrying him soon idc idc #ChoGuesung pic.twitter.com/ua9rDzGn8a

— lena (@louvkou) November 28, 2022
s.korea lost the world cup, but cho gue sung won the world pic.twitter.com/xs8XrfBoTm

— min  (@niksjpg) December 5, 2022
Meanwhile, it is all over for the Asian powerhouses after Brazil beat South Korea 4-1 to advance to the World Cup quarterfinal round in Qatar.