South Korea men's national ice hockey team

South Korea men's national ice hockey team
Hangul	대한민국 아이스하키 국가대표팀
Hanja	大韓民國 아이스하키 國家代表팀
Revised Romanization	Daehan Minguk Aiseuhaki Gukga Daepyo Tim
McCune–Reischauer	Taehan Min'guk Aisŭhak'i Kukka Taep'yo T'im

South Korea
	Shirt badge/Association crest
Association	Korea Ice Hockey Association
Head coach	Lee Chang-young
Assistants	Oh Hyon-ho; Son Ho-seung
Captain	Kim Ki-sung
Most games	Kim Ki-sung (140)
Top scorer	Kim Ki-sung (71)
Most points	Kim Ki-sung (141)
Team colors
IIHF code	KOR
Ranking
Current IIHF	21 1 (29 September 2022)
Highest IIHF	16 (2018)
Lowest IIHF	33 (2010)
First international
	Spain 7–1 South Korea; (Barcelona, Spain; 16 March 1979)
Biggest win
	South Korea 44–0 Hong Kong; (Perth, Australia; 14 March 1987)
Biggest defeat
	Latvia 27–0 South Korea; (Bled, Slovenia; 18 March 1993)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	36 (first in 1979)
Best result	16th (2018)
Asian Winter Games
Appearances	8 (first in 1986)
Best result	Silver (2017); Bronze (1986, 1990, 2007, 2011)
Olympics
Appearances	1 (first in 2018)
International record (W–L–T)
	104–196–14

The South Korean national ice hockey team (Korean: 대한민국 아이스하키 국가대표팀) is the national men's ice hockey team of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). They are currently ranked 19th in the IIHF World Rankings and competed in the World Championship top division tournament. The team's most successful campaign thus far was a second-place finish in the 2017 Division I Group A tournament and thus qualifying for the top division in 2018. They competed in their first Winter Olympics in 2018 in Pyeongchang as the host nation.

History

South Korea at the 2017 World Championship Division IA tournament in Ukraine. They finished second and earned promotion to the 2018 IIHF World Championship Top Division tournament for the first time.

South Korea first participated in the World Championship in 1979, playing in Pool C, the third level of the tournament. They did not return until 1982, again in Pool C, and became a regular participant in 1986. They remained at the Division I level, the second tier of the World Championship, from 2010 until 2017, when they earned a promotion to the 2018 World Championship.

Upon being named the host country for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the South Korean team began efforts to steadily improve themselves in order to be competitive with the other teams expected at the tournament, led by the efforts of Korea Ice Hockey Association president Chung Mong-won.^[2]

Several North American players playing for teams in South Korea were offered South Korean citizenship, thus allowing them to play at the Olympics.^[3] This was done to help the team perform better in the lead-up to the Olympics, which proved successful: when awarded the Olympics in 2011, the South Korean team was ranked 31st in the IIHF World Ranking, while on the eve of the Olympics had moved up to 18th.^[4]

Tournament record

Olympic Games

2018 – 12th place

World Championship

1979 – 25th place (7th in Pool C)
1982 – 24th place (8th in Pool C)
1986 – 25th place (9th in Pool C)
1987 – 26th place (2nd in Pool D)
1989 – 23rd place (7th in Pool C)
1990 – 25th place (9th in Pool C)
1991 – 24th place (8th in Pool C)
1992 – 26th place (6th in Pool C, Group A)
1993 – 25th place (9th in Pool C)
1994 – 30th place (10th in Pool C)
1995 – 33rd place (13th in Pool C)
1996 – 33rd place (5th in Pool D)
1997 – 30th place (2nd in Pool D)
1998 – 31st place (7th in Pool C)
1999 – 30th place (6th in Pool C)
2000 – 29th place (5th in Pool C)
2001 – 30th place (1st in Division II, Group A) Promoted to Division I
2002 – 27th place (6th in Division I, Group A) Relegated to Division II
2003 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group A) Promoted to Division I

2004 – 27th place (6th in Division I, Group B) Relegated to Division II
2005 – 33rd place (3rd in Division II, Group A)
2006 – 31st place (2nd in Division II, Group B)
2007 – 30th place (1st in Division II, Group B) Promoted to Division I
2008 – 28th place (6th in Division I, Group A) Relegated to Division II
2009 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group B) Promoted to Division I
2010 – 25th place (5th in Division I, Group B)
2011 – 22nd place (3rd in Division I, Group A)
2012 – 23rd place (1st in Division I, Group B) Promoted to Division I A
2013 – 21st place (5th in Division I, Group A)
2014 – 22nd place (6th in Division I, Group A) Relegated to Division I B
2015 – 23rd place (1st in Division I, Group B) Promoted to Division I A
2016 – 21st place (5th in Division I, Group A)
2017 – 18th place (2nd in Division I, Group A) Promoted to Top Division
2018 – 16th place (8th in Group B) Relegated to Division I A
2019 – 19th place (3rd in Division I, Group A)
2020 – Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[5]
2021 – Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[6]
2022 – 20th place (4th in Division I, Group A)

Asian Winter Games

1986 – 3rd place
1990 – 3rd place
1996 – 4th place
1999 – 4th place
2003 – 4th place
2007 – 3rd place
2011 – 3rd place
2017 – 2nd place

All-time record against other nations

Last match update: 16 February 2018^[7]

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
Japan	24	3	1	20	44	173
China	21	5	2	14	59	120
Hungary	15	3	1	11	45	105
Australia	14	9	3	2	84	55
Spain	14	7	3	4	54	52
North Korea	12	5	1	6	40	64
Kazakhstan	11	1	0	10	14	79
Poland	9	4	0	5	23	32
Romania	9	4	0	5	27	50
Bulgaria	9	3	0	6	44	54
Netherlands	9	3	0	6	39	49
Croatia	9	3	1	5	24	24
Great Britain	8	3	0	5	23	42
Belgium	7	4	0	3	27	24
Yugoslavia/ Serbia and Montenegro	8	2	0	6	19	62
New Zealand	6	6	0	0	99	5
Italy	6	1	0	5	6	33
South Africa	5	5	0	0	46	8
Slovenia	5	0	0	5	7	31
Denmark	7	1	0	7	9	61
Mexico	4	4	0	0	49	6
Israel	4	3	1	0	23	11
Lithuania	5	2	1	2	17	17
Austria	7	1	0	6	16	37
France	4	0	0	4	7	60
Hong Kong	3	3	0	0	79	1
Ukraine	4	1	0	3	7	28
Estonia	3	1	0	2	7	24
Chinese Taipei	2	2	0	0	46	0
Mongolia	2	2	0	0	37	2
Iceland	2	2	0	0	24	2
Norway	4	0	0	5	5	27
Turkey	1	1	0	0	14	0
Malaysia	1	1	0	0	14	1
Canada	3	0	0	3	2	18
Belarus	1	0	0	1	1	12
Latvia	2	0	0	2	0	32
Finland	3	0	0	3	3	17
Sweden	1	0	0	1	1	5
Czech Republic	1	0	0	1	1	2
Germany	1	0	0	1	1	6
United States	1	0	0	1	1	13
Total	275	94	14	166	1113	1465

All-time record against other clubs

Last match update: 11 August 2017^[7]

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA
Russia Olympic Team	2	0	2	7	9
Admiral Vladivostok	2	0	2	5	8
HC Sparta Praha	1	1	0	2	1
Mountfield HK	1	0	1	3	4
HC Dynamo Pardubice	1	0	1	1	4
HC Škoda Plzeň	1	0	1	1	2
Motor České Budějovice	1	0	1	1	9
Total	11	2	9	25	43

References

^ "IIHF Men's World Ranking". IIHF. 29 September 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
^ Podnieks, Andrew (4 February 2020). "Legends join IIHF Hall of Fame". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
^ Crouse, Karen; Berkman, Seth (23 February 2017). "South Korea, Next Olympics Host, Went Shopping in North America to Build Its Hockey Teams". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
^ Lerner, Matt (4 May 2017). "South Korea and China Chasing Hockey Dreams". The Diplomat. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
^ "IIHF cancels Division I tournaments". iihf.com. 17 March 2019.
^ "IIHF – IIHF Council announces more cancellations". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b "South-Korea-Men-All-Time-Results.pdf" (PDF). National Teams of Ice Hockey. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

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IIHF profile
National Teams of Ice Hockey profile

[IIHF_Men's_World_Ranking-1] "IIHF Men's World Ranking". IIHF. 29 September 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.

[2] Podnieks, Andrew (4 February 2020). "Legends join IIHF Hall of Fame". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 4 February 2020.

[3] Crouse, Karen; Berkman, Seth (23 February 2017). "South Korea, Next Olympics Host, Went Shopping in North America to Build Its Hockey Teams". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 April 2017.

[4] Lerner, Matt (4 May 2017). "South Korea and China Chasing Hockey Dreams". The Diplomat. Retrieved 4 October 2018.

[5] "IIHF cancels Division I tournaments". iihf.com. 17 March 2019.

[6] "IIHF – IIHF Council announces more cancellations". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.

[NTOIH-7] "South-Korea-Men-All-Time-Results.pdf" (PDF). National Teams of Ice Hockey. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

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