"Spain have several experienced players and one or two times in the match they had superiority with their fast counter attacks. But then again we had periods like that as well."
But he was unhappy with suggestions that the officials in the match were biased toward his team.
"That is not fair," he said. "Errors are made, by players,
by coaches and by referees and linesmen.
"The losing team should look in the mirror, not to external
circumstances."
Hiddink looked ahead to his side's semi-final match against Germany.
"We approach the next game against the Germans like a bunch
of young dogs, we have nothing to lose," he said.
"We have less recovery time than the Germans and so the schedule is not working for us."
He refused to be drawn on whether he will continue with his role after the World Cup.
South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung said the victory was the finest moment for the country since Dangung founded the Korean nation 5,000 years ago.
"This is the happiest day since Dangung and now a new path to national prosperity has been opened," he said.
"Now let's go to the final and win the tournament in Yokohama,
let's make the World Cup ours."
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