Korea national rugby union team

Infobox rugby team
country =South Korea


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union = Korea Rugby Union
nickname =
emblem = The Rose of Sharon
coach = flagicon|South Korea Hyung Suk Chung and Chun Oh Seo
from =
caps = Back Kwang Soo
top scorer =
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first = ru-rt|JPN 23 - 5 ru|KOR
(1969-03-16)
bigwin = ru-rt|KOR 135 - 3 ru|MAS
(1992-09-20)
bigloss = ru-rt|TGA 119 - 0 ru|KOR
(2003-03-22)
url = rugby.sports.or.kr
best =Repechage 2The Korea national rugby union team represents South Korea in international rugby union. The team is recognized as "Korea" by the International Rugby Board. Korea is the second best squad from Asia, after Japan but still has to make their debut at the Rugby World Cup finals. Korea was eliminated by Tonga at the repechage, for the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals.

Korea participated in the 2008 Asian Five Nations, the inaugural Asian Five Nations.

Current Team

1 Sung-Un Jung (Samsung SDI)
2 Tae-Hyung Kim (captain) (PROP(1); Korea Electric Power; 6caps)
3 Min-Sung Kang
4 Young-Nam Kim (Samsung SDI)
5 Kwon-Woo Youn
6 Jeong-Min Kim (Sangmu)
7 Young-Nam You
8 Kwang-Moon Lee (Sangmu)
9 Seong-Hyuk Ahn (S.H.; Sangmu)
10 Jun-Ki Hong
11 In-Soo Cho (Sangmu)
12 Jong-Su Kim (CTB; Sangmu; 12 caps)
13 Sung-Soo Kim (CTB; Sangmu; 13caps)
14 Byung-Kwan Noh
15 Young-Ki Ji
16 Kwang-Sik Kim
17 Soon-Kil Eon
18 Tae-Gyun Jung
19 Song-Gun Jung
20 Dae-Hoon Lim
21 Tae-Il Yoon (SO; Sangmu; 1cap)
22 Woong Heo

Former players

Woong Heo (2004-2006) (PROP(3);Gwangmu)
Chan-Sik Park (2003-2005)
Yong-Don Park (N0.8; 2006)
Young-Hun Yang (S.H; 2003-2006)
Chang-Min Park (2000-2004) (Samsung SDI)
Jae-Young Chae (2006) (Gwangmu)
Sung-Woon Yoon (2002)
Kun-Kyu Han (2006)
Jeong-Min Kim (2003) (Gwangmu)
Min-Hyung Yoo (2005-2006) (Korea Electric Power)

External Link

* [http://rugbydata.com/korea]