South Korea men's national ice hockey team

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). 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 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.
Several North American players playing for teams in South Korea were offered South Korean citizenship, thus allowing them to play at the Olympics. 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.
==Tournament record==
===Olympic Games===
*2018 – 12th place
===World Championship===
Year 	Finish 	Rank
1979 Barcelona 	7th in the Group C 	25th
1981 Beijing 	Did not participate 	Did not participate
1982 Jaca 	8th in the Group C 	24th
1983 Budapest 	Did not participate 	Did not participate
1985 Megève, Chamonix and Saint-Gervais 	Did not participate 	Did not participate
1986 Jaca 	9th in the Group C, Relegated 	25th
1987 Perth 	2nd in the Group D, Promoted 	26th
1989 Sydney 	7th in the Group C 	23rd
1990 Budapest 	9th in the Group C 	25th
1991 Brøndby 	8th in the Group C 	24th
1992 Hull 	6th in the Group C1 	26th
1993 Bled 	9th in the Group C 	25th
1994 Barcelona 	10th in the Group C 	30th
1995 Johannesburg and Krugersdorp 	13th in the Group C 	33rd
1996 Kaunas and Elektrenai 	5th in the Group D 	33rd
1997 Canillo 	2nd in the Group D, Promoted 	30th
1998 Budapest, Székesfehérvár and Dunaújváros	7th in the Group C 	31st
1999 Eindhoven and Tilburg 	6th in the Group C 	30th
2000 Beijing 	5th in the Group C 	29th
2001 Majadahonda 	1st in Division II, Group A, Promoted 	30th
2002 Székesfehérvár and Dunaújváros 	6th in the Division II, Group A, Relegated	27th
2003 Seoul 	1st in Division II, Group A, Promoted 	29th
2004 Gdańsk 	6th in the Division I, Group B, Relegated 	27th
2005 Zagreb 	3rd in the Division II, Group A 	33rd
2006 Auckland 	2nd in the Division II, Group B 	31st
2007 Seoul 	1st in the Division II, Group B, Promoted 	30th
2008 Innsbruck 	6th in the Division I, Group A, Relegated 	28th
2009 Sofia 	1st in the Division II, Group B, Promoted 	29th
2010 Ljubljana 	5th in the Division I, Group B 	25th
2011 Budapest 	3rd in the Division I, Group A 	22nd
2012 Krynica 	1st in the Division I, Group B, Promoted 	23rd
2013 Budapest 	5th in the Division I, Group A 	21st
2014 Goyang 	6th in the Division I, Group A, Relegated 	22nd
2015 Eindhoven 	1st in the Division I, Group B, Promoted 	23rd
2016 Katowice 	5th in the Division I, Group A 	21st
2017 Kyiv 	2nd in the Division I, Group A, Promoted 	18th
2018 Copenhagen and Herning 	8th in the Group B, Relegated 	16th
2019 Astana 	3rd in Division I, Group A 	19th
2020 Ljubljana 	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic 	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Ljubljana 	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic 	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022 Ljubljana 	4th in Division I, Group A 	20th
2023 Nottingham 	4th in Division I, Group A 	20th
2024 Bolzano 	6th in the Division I, Group A Relegated 	26th
===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: 24 April 2023
Team 	GP 	W 	T 	L 	GF 	GA
 	7 	1 	0 	6 	16 	37
 	14 	9 	3 	2 	84 	55
 	3 	1 	0 	2 	10 	19
 	7 	4 	0 	3 	27 	24
 	9 	4 	0 	5 	48 	53
 	3 	0 	0 	3 	2 	18
 	21 	5 	2 	14 	59 	120
 	2 	2 	0 	0 	46 	2
 	9 	2 	1 	6 	28 	29
 	1 	0 	0 	1 	1 	2
 	10 	1 	0 	9 	16 	86
 	3 	1 	0 	2 	7 	24
 	3 	0 	0 	3 	4 	17
 	4 	0 	0 	4 	9 	49
 	2 	0 	0 	2 	4 	10
 	8 	3 	0 	5 	23 	42
 	3 	3 	0 	0 	79 	1
 	21 	5 	1 	15 	57 	122
 	2 	2 	0 	0 	24 	2
 	4 	3 	1 	0 	23 	11
 	9 	1 	0 	8 	12 	46
 	31 	7 	1 	23 	57 	188
 	25 	6 	0 	19 	49 	136
 	3 	0 	0 	3 	2 	38
 	7 	2 	1 	4 	22 	24
 	1 	1 	0 	0 	14 	1
 	4 	4 	0 	0 	48 	6
 	2 	2 	0 	0 	37 	2
 	9 	3 	0 	6 	39 	49
 	6 	6 	0 	0 	99 	5
 	12 	5 	1 	6 	40 	64
 	6 	0 	0 	6 	6 	31
 	12 	4 	0 	8 	29 	44
 	10 	5 	0 	5 	34 	51
 	1 	0 	0 	1 	1 	8
/ 	8 	2 	0 	6 	14 	67
 	1 	0 	0 	1 	1 	2
 	10 	1 	0 	9 	16 	53
 	5 	5 	0 	0 	46 	8
 	14 	7 	3 	4 	54 	52
 	1 	0 	0 	1 	1 	5
 	1 	0 	0 	1 	0 	8
 	1 	1 	0 	0 	14 	0
 	5 	2 	0 	3 	11 	30
 	1 	0 	0 	1 	1 	13
Total	321	104	14	203	1214	1654
==All-time record against other clubs==
Last match update: 11 August 2017
Team 	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
 	2 	0	0	2	7 	9
Admiral Vladivostok 	2 	0	0	2	5 	8
HC Sparta Praha 	1 	1	0	0	2 	1
Mountfield HK 	1 	0	0	1	3 	4
HC Dynamo Pardubice 	1 	0	0	1	1 	4
HC Škoda Plzeň 	1 	0	0	1	1 	2
Motor České Budějovice	1 	0	0	1	1 	9
Total 	9 	1	0	8	20	37
==References==
==External links==
*Official website
*IIHF profile
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