Korea national rugby union team
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| Union | Korea Rugby Union | |||||||||||||||||
| Emblem(s) | The Rose of Sharon | |||||||||||||||||
| Coach |  Hyung Suk Chung and Chun Oh Seo |
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| Most caps | Back Kwang Soo (26)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| First international | ||||||||||||||||||
Japan  23 - 5 Korea(1969-03-16) |
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| Largest win | ||||||||||||||||||
Korea 135 - 3  Malaysia(1992-09-20) |
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Tonga  119 - 0 Korea(2003-03-22) |
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The 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 will participate in the 2008 Asian Five Nations, the inaugural Asian Five Nations.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
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