Sweden will face South Korea in their opening Group F game of the FIFA World Cup in Nizhny Novgorod on Monday.

"Well, I think that it's good that we have a lot of people [in the stadiums] since it's a World Cup. I think that it helps the atmosphere when there are a lot of people. Whether they are Swedish or Korean, it really doesn't matter," Ki Sung-yueng told journalists.

South Korea will also face Mexico on Saturday and Germany on 27 June.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicked off on Thursday and will continue until 15 July, with a total of 64 matches set to be played at 12 stadiums across 11 Russian cities.