South Korea men's national handball team

South Korea
Information
Association	Korea Handball Federation
Coach	Rolando Freitas
Assistant coach	Vanja Radić Herlander Silva
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	7 (First in 1984 )
Best result	2nd (1988)
World Championship
Appearances	13 (First in 1986 )
Best result	8th (1997)
Asian Championship
Appearances	18 (First in 1977 )
Best result	1st (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2000, 2008, 2010, 2012)
Last updated on Unknown.

South Korea men's national handball team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	Team
Asian Games
	1986 Seoul	Team
	1990 Beijing	Team
	1994 Hiroshima	Team
	1998 Bangkok	Team
	2002 Busan	Team
	2010 Guangzhou	Team
	2014 Incheon	Team
	1982 New Delhi	Team
	2018 Jakarta-Palembang	Team
Asian Championship
	1983 Seoul
	1987 Amman
	1989 Beijing
	1991 Hiroshima
	1993 Manama
	2000 Kumamoto
	2008 Isfahan
	2010 Beirut
	2012 Jeddah
	1977 Kuwait City
	1995 Kuwait City
	2006 Bangkok
	2020 Kuwait City
	2018 Suwon

The South Korea national handball team is the national handball team of South Korea and is controlled by the Korea Handball Federation. They are one of the most successful teams in Asia with a record 9 Continental Championships. They have however not won the title since 2010. They are also the only Asian team to have won medals at the Summer Olympics. ^[1]

Competitive record

 Champions   Runners-up

Olympic Games

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	did not qualify
1976 Montreal
1980 Moscow	did not participate
1984 Los Angeles	Match for 11th place	11th of 12	6	1	1	4	148	178	−30
1988 Seoul	Runners-up	2nd of 12	6	4	0	2	152	149	+3
1992 Barcelona	Match for 5th place	6th of 12	6	3	0	3	135	153	−18
1996 Atlanta	did not qualify
2000 Sydney	Match for 9th place	9th of 12	6	2	1	3	152	150	+2
2004 Athens	Match for 7th place	8th of 12	8	2	0	6	221	238	−15
2008 Beijing	Match for 7th place	8th of 12	8	3	0	5	198	224	−26
2012 London	Group stage	11th of 12	5	0	0	5	115	140	−25
2016 Rio de Janeiro	did not qualify
2020 Tokyo
2024 Paris
Total	7/15	0 Titles	45	15	2	28	1,121	1,232	−111

World Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1938	Not a IHF member
1954
1958
1961	did not enter
1964
1967
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986	Match for 11th place	12th	7	2	0	5	179	186
1990	Match for 11th place	12th	7	1	0	6	167	197
1993	Ranking round	15th	6	1	1	4	151	167
1995	Match for 11th place	12th	9	5	0	4	249	220
1997	Match for 7th place	8th	9	4	1	4	233	253
1999	Round of 16	14th	6	2	0	4	169	153
2001	Round of 16	12th	6	3	0	3	171	160
2003	did not qualify
2005
2007	President's Cup	15th	6	3	1	2	193	187
2009	Match for 11th place	12th	9	3	0	6	239	239
2011	President's Cup	13th	7	4	1	2	192	175
2013	President's cup	21st	7	2	0	5	182	189
2015	did not qualify
2017
2019	President's cup	22nd [a]	7	1	0	6	177	216
2021	President's cup	31st	7	1	0	6	176	225
2023	President's cup	28th	7	2	0	5	206	227
2025	did not qualify
2027	to be determined
Total	13/28		100	34	4	62	2684	2794

• ^
  Participated as Unified Korea

Asian Games record

• 1982 – 3rd place
• 1986 – Champions
• 1990 – Champions
• 1994 – Champions
• 1998 – Champions
• 2002 – Champions
• 2006 – 4th place
• 2010 – Champions
• 2014 – Runners-up
• 2018 – 3rd place
• 2022 – 5th place

Asian Championship

• 1977 – Runners-up
• 1983 – Champions
• 1987 – Champions
• 1989 – Champions
• 1991 – Champions
• 1993 – Champions
• 1995 – Runners-up
• 2000 – Champions
• 2002 – 4th place
• 2006 – Runners-up
• 2008 – Champions
• 2010 – Champions
• 2012 – Champions
• 2014 – 5th place
• 2016 – 6th place
• 2018 – 3rd place
• 2020 – Runners-up
• 2022 – 5th place
• 2024 – 5th place

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship. ^{[2] [3]}

Head coach: Rolando Freitas

Assistant Coach: Herlander Silva

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 3 RW Shin Jae-seop (1999-11-05) 5 November 1999 (age 26) 1.83 m 7 54 Hanam Handball Club 7 CB Kang Jeon-gu (1990-05-11) 11 May 1990 (age 35) 1.80 m 6 4 Doosan 8 P Ku Chang-eun (1993-12-23) 23 December 1993 (age 31) 1.90 m 26 48 Doosan 10 LB Park Young-jun (1994-01-28) 28 January 1994 (age 31) 1.88 m 0 0 Incheon Metropolitan City Corporation 11 LW Jang Dong-hyun (1995-01-13) 13 January 1995 (age 30) 1.80 m 0 0 SK Hawks 13 RB Jo Tae-hun (1991-06-30) 30 June 1991 (age 34) 1.83 m 33 72 Doosan 14 P Lee Seong-min (1995-12-14) 14 December 1995 (age 29) 1.92 m 0 0 Doosan 17 RB Kim Yeon-bin (1997-03-24) 24 March 1997 (age 28) 1.82 m 0 0 Doosan 26 RW Kim Jin-young (2000-02-02) 2 February 2000 (age 25) 1.85 m 8 49 CB Ademar León 28 LW Kim Gi-min (1994-08-09) 9 August 1994 (age 31) 1.83 m 15 30 SK Hawks 33 RW Ha Min-ho (1992-01-23) 23 January 1992 (age 33) 1.90 m 0 0 Incheon Metropolitan City Corporation 34 CB Oh Ju-an (1994-06-23) 23 June 1994 (age 31) 1.86 m 0 0 SK Hawks 37 RB Ha Tae-hyun (1994-04-15) 15 April 1994 (age 31) 1.88 m 23 107 SK Hawks 66 GK Kim Dong-wook (1997-09-19) 19 September 1997 (age 28) 1.92 m 8 0 Doosan 71 LB Lee Hyeon-sik (1992-02-16) 16 February 1992 (age 33) 1.85 m 0 0 SK Hawks 77 CB Lee Yo-seb (1998-04-27) 27 April 1998 (age 27) 1.75 m 13 31 Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps 79 P Park Se-ung (1998-03-18) 18 March 1998 (age 27) 1.88 m 9 33 SK Hawks 94 GK Lee Chang-woo (2003-04-27) 27 April 2003 (age 22) 1.90 m 8 1 Korea National Sport University 97 P Jin Yu-sung (2000-10-12) 12 October 2000 (age 25) 1.90 m 0 0 Korea National Sport University 99 GK Park Jae-yong (1997-03-20) 20 March 1997 (age 28) 1.92 m 13 0 Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps

Notable players

• Yoon Kyung-shin: 2001 World Handball Player of the Year
• Kang Jae-won: 1989 World Handball Player of the Year, six-time MVP of Swiss Bundesliga

See also

• South Korea women's national handball team

References

1. "Handball at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
2. ""이젠 세계선수권"… 막차 티켓 거머쥔 男핸드볼 대표팀 출국" (in Korean). sports.news.naver.com. 25 December 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
3. "Team Roster South Korea" (PDF). ihf.info. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2023.

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile