The South Korean national ice hockey team is the national men's ice hockey team of the Republic of 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.
The South Korean women's national ice hockey team is controlled by the Korea Ice Hockey Association (KIHA). In 2017,the team was promoted to Division IB after winning the Division IIA World Women's Ice Hockey Championships. As of 2022,the team was ranked 18th in the world.
South Korea competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang,from 9 to 25 February 2018,as the host nation. It was represented by 122 competitors in all 15 disciplines.
The ice hockey (hockey) competitions of the 2018 Winter Olympics were played at two venues within the Gangneung Coastal Cluster in Gangneung,South Korea. The Gangneung Hockey Centre,which seats 10,000,and the Kwandong Hockey Centre,which seats 6,000,were both originally scheduled to be completed in 2016 but appear to have been completed in early 2017. Both venues contain Olympic-sized rinks.
The women's tournament in ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held in Gangneung,South Korea between 10 and 22 February 2018. Eight countries qualified for the tournament;five of them did so automatically by virtue of their ranking by the International Ice Hockey Federation,one,South Korea,automatically qualified as hosts,while the two others took part in a qualification tournament. Under a special agreement with the IOC and the IIHF,twelve North Korean players joined the host team to form a united team. They were allowed to have an expanded roster of 35 where 22 players dress for each game. Three North Korean players were selected for each game by coach Sarah Murray.
Shin So-jung is a South Korean retired ice hockey goaltender and former member of the South Korean women's national ice hockey team and the Korean Unified women's ice hockey team,currently serving as an assistant coach to the South Korean national team. She was the first Korean to play professional women's ice hockey in North America,as a member of the New York Riveters in the 2016–17 season of the National Women's Hockey League.
A unified team of South Korea and North Korea competed under the title "Korea" at the 2018 Winter Olympics in ice hockey.
The Korea women's national ice hockey team is a representative side which is composed of players from both South Korea and North Korea.
Caroline Nancy Park is a physician,and a former actress and hockey player.
Ko Hye-in is a South Korean ice hockey player.
Eom Su-yeon is a South Korean ice hockey player and member of the South Korean national team,currently playing with the St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey conference of NCAA Division I.
Kim Un-hyang is a North Korean ice hockey player.
Choi Yu-jung is a South Korean ice hockey player.
Danelle Im is a South Korean ice hockey player.
Park Jong-ah is a South Korean ice hockey player and the captain of the South Korean national ice hockey team,currently playing in the Korean Women's Hockey League (KWHL) with the Suwon City Hall women's ice hockey team. As of April 2022,she was the all-time leader in goals (41) and points scored (68) for the South Korean women's national team.
Choi Ji-yeon is a South Korean ice hockey player and member of the South Korean national ice hockey team,currently playing in the Korean Women's Hockey League (KWHL) with the Suwon City Hall women's ice hockey team.
Park Ye-eun is a South Korean ice hockey player.
Marissa Brandt,also known by her birth name Park Yoon-jung,is a Korean-American ice hockey player who plays with the South Korean national team. When competing internationally with the South Korean or Unified Korean national teams,she uses her birth name.
Jong Su-hyon is a North Korean ice hockey player. She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Chung Mong-won is a South Korean ice hockey administrator and businessman. He has served as chief executive officer of both Halla Group and Mando Corporation,founded the Anyang Halla hockey team in 1994,and co-founded Asia League Ice Hockey in 2003. He became involved in international ice hockey as manager of the South Korea men's national ice hockey team in 2003,then became chairman of the Korea Ice Hockey Association in 2013,and implemented a development plan for the men's national team and the South Korea women's national ice hockey team in advance of ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics hosted in South Korea. Under his leadership,the men's national team earned promotion to the top tier at the 2018 IIHF World Championship,and the women's national team played in the 2018 Winter Olympics on a Unified Korea team with North Korea. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has named Chung to its 2020 IIHF Hall of Fame group of inductees.
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