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Korea

Five years of results, read from this team's own point of view.

Rating

46

Average — 42nd percentile · Glicko-2 906 ±103

Record

4-0-8

33.3% of 12 matches in the last five years

Average margin

-4.5

27.8 for, 32.3 against

Home advantage

+32.1

Points per match better at home

Attack

+6%

27.8 scored per match, against the placed field's average

Defence

-18%

32.3 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

About the team
Head coach
Ju Ga-ram
Captain
Lee Jin-kyu
Union
Korea Rugby Union
Emblem
The Mugunghwa
Home ground
Incheon Namdong Asiad Rugby Field
First match
Taiwan 15–9 (Tokyo, Japan; 8 March 1969)
Most caps
Back Kwang-soo (26)
Leading scorer
Oh Youn-hyung (98)
Most tries
Lee Jin-wook (13)
World Cups
0

Anthem

애국가Patriotic Song

Korean (Han-geul script) · August 15, 1948 · 0:57

Words
Korean lyrics (Han-geul script) 1. 동해 물과 백두산이 마르고 닳도록 하느님이 보우하사 우리나라 만세 CHORUS: 무궁화 삼천리 화려강산 대한사람 대한으로 길이 보전하세 2. 남산 위에 저 소나무 철갑을 두른 듯 바람서리 불변함은 우리 기상일세 Chorus 3. 가을 하늘 공활한데 높고 구름 없이 밝은 달은 우리 가슴 일편단심일세 Chorus 4. 이 기상과 이 맘으로 충성을 다하여 괴로우나 즐거우나 나라 사랑하세 Chorus Korean lyrics (Revised Romanization) 1. Donghae mulgwa Baekdusani mareugo daltorok Haneunimi bo-uhasa uri nara manse CHORUS: Mugunghwa samcheolli hwaryeo gangsan Daehan saram Daehan euro giri bojeonhase 2. Namsan wie jeosonamu cheolgapeul dureundeut Baram seori bulbyeon naneun uri gisang ilse Chorus 3. Gaeul hanal gonghwal hande nopgogu reumeopsi Byalgeun dalgeun uri gasim ilpyeon dansim ilse Chorus 4. Igi sangnwa imam euro chungseongeul dahayeo Goero una jeulgeo una nara sarang hase Chorus English translation 1. Until that day when the waters of the Eastern Sea run dry and Mt. Baekdu is worn away, God protect and preserve our nation. CHORUS: Three thousand Li of splendid rivers and mountains, filled with Roses of Sharon; Great Korean people, stay true to the Great Korean way! 2. As the pine atop Mt. Namsan stands firm, as if wrapped in armour, unchanged through wind and frost, so shall our resilient spirit. Chorus 3. The Autumn sky is void and vast, high and cloudless; the bright moon is our heart, undivided and true. Chorus 4. With this spirit and this mind, give all loyalty, in suffering or in joy, to the love of country. Chorus

Recording and words from nationalanthems.info, used under CC BY 4.0.

From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.

Recent results

Newest first, from Korea's own point of view. Home and away are as the record stores them; a fixture the record does not mark neutral is listed as one side's home, which is right for a league round and wrong for a final played at a third ground.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer42%
Matches totalling 50 or more67%
Margin swing32.3 points
Last five, most recent firstlostlostlostwonlostL3

Biggest win: 55-5 v Malaysia

Heaviest defeat: 7-67 v Hong Kong China

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating46
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Average — 42nd percentile

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Korea. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.

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28 of 66 teams sit too close together to name without covering another team's point, so they are drawn unlabelled. Every dot is still a link to that team, and hovering one names it.

  1. 1Croatia0.20
  2. 2Japan0.20
  3. 3Romania0.42
  4. 4Uruguay0.49
  5. 5Brazil0.53

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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