The South Korean national ice hockey team ( ko, 대한민국 아이스하키 국가대표팀) is the national men's

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team of the

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(South Korea). They are currently ranked 19th in the

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s and competed in the

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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

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. They competed in their first

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in Pyeongchang as the host nation.

History

South Korea first participated in the

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, 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

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, when they earned a promotion to the 2018 World Championship. Upon being named the host country for the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

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

, while on the eve of the Olympics had moved up to 18th.

Tournament record

Olympic Games

– 12th place

World Championship

– 25th place (7th in Pool C) * 1982 – 24th place (8th in Pool C) * 1986 – 25th place (9th in Pool C) *

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– 26th place (2nd in Pool D) *

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– 23rd place (7th in Pool C) * 1990 – 25th place (9th in Pool C) *

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– 24th place (8th in Pool C) * 1992 – 26th place (6th in Pool C, Group A) *

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– 25th place (9th in Pool C) * 1994 – 30th place (10th in Pool C) *

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– 33rd place (13th in Pool C) * 1996 – 33rd place (5th in Pool D) * 1997 – 30th place (2nd in Pool D) *

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– 31st place (7th in Pool C) * 1999 – 30th place (6th in Pool C) *

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– 29th place (5th in Pool C) * 2001 – 30th place (1st in Division II, Group A) Promoted to Division I * 2002 – 27th place (6th in Division I, Group A) Relegated to Division II * 2003 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group A) Promoted to Division I * 2004 – 27th place (6th in Division I, Group B) Relegated to Division II * 2005 – 33rd place (3rd in Division II, Group A) * 2006 – 31st place (2nd in Division II, Group B) * 2007 – 30th place (1st in Division II, Group B) Promoted to Division I * 2008 – 28th place (6th in Division I, Group A) Relegated to Division II * 2009 – 29th place (1st in Division II, Group B) Promoted to Division I * 2010 – 25th place (5th in Division I, Group B) * 2011 – 22nd place (3rd in Division I, Group A) *

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– 23rd place (1st in Division I, Group B) Promoted to Division I A *

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– 21st place (5th in Division I, Group A) *

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– 22nd place (6th in Division I, Group A) Relegated to Division I B * 2015 – 23rd place (1st in Division I, Group B) Promoted to Division I A *

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– 21st place (5th in Division I, Group A) *

– 18th place (2nd in Division I, Group A) Promoted to Top Division *

– 16th place (8th in Group B) Relegated to Division I A *

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– 19th place (3rd in Division I, Group A) *

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– Cancelled due to the

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– Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic *

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– 20th place (4th in Division I, Group A)

Asian Winter Games

* 1986 –

3rd place * 1990 – Bronze medal with cup

3rd place * 1996 – 4th place * 1999 – 4th place * 2003 – 4th place * 2007 – Bronze medal with cup

3rd place * 2011 – Bronze medal with cup

3rd place *

–

2nd place

All-time record against other nations

''Last match update: 16 February 2018''

All-time record against other clubs

''Last match update: 11 August 2017''

References

External links

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