South Korea women's national handball team

South Korea women's national handball team
Medal record
Olympic Games
World Championship
Asian Games
Asian Championship

South Korea
South Korea
Information
Association	Korea Handball Federation
Coach	Henrik Signell
Assistant coach	Erik Larholm; Vanja Radić
Captain	Shin Eun-joo
Most caps	Ryu Eun-hee (171)
Colours
1st	2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	11 (First in 1984)
Best result	Gold medal (1988, 1992)
World Championship
Appearances	20 (First in 1978)
Best result	Champions (1995)
Asian Championship
Appearances	19 (First in 1987)
Best result	Champions (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022)
	Last updated on Unknown.

The South Korea women's national handball team is the national team of South Korea. Since 1984 the Korean team has not only participated constantly in Olympic Games but also ranked among the top four nations every time until 2012. Korea grabbed the gold medal in 1988 and 1992, won the silver medal in 1984, 1996, 2004 and took bronze medal in 2008. They have earned two World Championship medals so far: In 1995, they also won the World Championship title in Austria/Hungary 1995 World Women's Handball Championship, they came off third to secure the bronze medal at the Croatia in 2003 World Women's Handball Championship. It is a twelve time Asian Champion, the tournament has been won by any other nation only twice.

Both the men's and women's and children's teams failed to qualify in the regional qualifiers for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in 2007 August due to the biased refereeing, but the International Handball Federation ordered replays of both qualifying tournaments after acknowledging biased officiating by Middle Eastern referees. South Korea beat Japan in both the men's and women's matches and qualified for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 January. However, the Executive Committee of the Kuwait-based federation, which had rejected the International Handball Federation's ruling to hold the replays, agreed to fine Japan and South Korea $1,000 and issued a warning to both countries. In addition, the Asian Handball Federation appealed the IHF's decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ruled the Asian women's qualification invalid and forced the Korean ladies to play in the final Olympic qualifying tournament. The replay was decided to be invalid by the Court. The Korean women's team earned their ticket to the Beijing Olympics at the Olympic qualifying game held at Nîmes, France.
In the semi-final match of 2008 Beijing Olympic games with Norway, Norway's deciding goal was requested to be annulled by the Korean delegation, because they claimed the ball had not crossed the goal line before the end whistle of the game. Korea's appeal was turned down by the IHF's Disciplinary Commission, confirming the end result to be 29–28 in favor of Norway.^[1]

The 2008 film Forever the Moment is a fictionalized account of the teams' journey to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Results

Olympic Games

Year	Position	Tournament	Host
1984	2	Los Angeles Olympics	United States
1988	1	Seoul Olympics	South Korea
1992	1	Barcelona Olympics	Spain
1996	2	Atlanta Olympics	United States
2000	4	Sydney Olympics	Australia
2004	2	Athens Olympics	Greece
2008	3	Beijing Olympics	China
2012	4	London Olympics	Great Britain
2016	10	Rio Olympics	Brazil
2020	8	Tokyo Olympics	Japan
2024	10	Paris Olympics	France

World Championship

1978 – 10–12th place
1982 – 6th place
1986 – 11th place
1990 – 11th place
1993 – 11th place
1995 – Champions
1997 – 5th place
1999 – 9th place
2001 – 15th place
2003 – 3rd place
2005 – 8th place
2007 – 6th place
2009 – 6th place
2011 – 11th place
2013 – 12th place
2015 – 14th place
2017 – 13th place
2019 – 11th place
2021 – 14th place
2023 – 22th place

Asian Games

1990 – Champions
1994 – Champions
1998 – Champions
2002 – Champions
2006 – Champions
2010 – 3rd place
2014 – Champions
2018 – Champions
2022 – 2nd place

Asian Championship

1987 – Champions
1989 – Champions
1991 – Champions
1993 – Champions
1995 – Champions
1997 – Champions
1999 – Champions
2000 – Champions
2002 – Runners-up
2004 – 3rd place
2006 – Champions
2008 – Champions
2010 – Runners-up
2012 – Champions
2015 – Champions
2017 – Champions
2018 – Champions
2021 – Champions
2022 – Champions

Other tournaments

Carpathian Trophy 1994 – 2nd place
Carpathian Trophy 2006 – 2nd place
Møbelringen Cup 2017 – 4th place

Team

Current squad

Roster for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

A 22-player squad was announced on 14 May 2024.^[2] It was reduced to 17 players on 2 July 2024.^[3]

Head coach: Henrik Signell^[4]

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
2	RW	Song Ji-young	(1995-05-05)5 May 1995 (aged 29)	1.64 m	29	55	Seoul City
7	LW	Shin Eun-joo	(1993-09-09)9 September 1993 (aged 30)	1.70 m	56	106	Incheon City
11	RB	Ryu Eun-hee	(1990-02-24)24 February 1990 (aged 34)	1.79 m	171	524	Győri ETO KC
12	GK	Jeong Jin-hui	(1999-03-24)24 March 1999 (aged 25)	1.80 m	33	0	Seoul City
16	GK	Park Sae-young	(1994-08-11)11 August 1994 (aged 29)	1.76 m	67	0	Wonderful Samcheok
18	LB	Han Mi-seul	(1993-08-13)13 August 1993 (aged 30)	1.78 m	48	79	Incheon City
19	P	Kang Eun-hye	(1996-04-17)17 April 1996 (aged 28)	1.86 m	65	90	SK Sugar Gliders
23	LB	Woo Bit-na	(2001-10-23)23 October 2001 (aged 22)	1.72 m	10	36	Seoul City
24	CB	Kang Kyung-min	(1996-11-08)8 November 1996 (aged 27)	1.65 m	19	42	SK Sugar Gliders
26	RB	Kang Eun-seo	(1999-03-04)4 March 1999 (aged 25)	1.69 m	6	1	Incheon City
27	RW	Jeon Ji-yeon	(2003-05-02)2 May 2003 (aged 21)	1.68 m	5	5	Wonderful Samcheok
29	LB	Kim Da-young	(1996-09-16)16 September 1996 (aged 27)	1.70 m	0	0	Busan
31	P	Gim Bo-eun	(1997-12-08)8 December 1997 (aged 26)	1.77 m	32	68	Wonderful Samcheok
33	CB	Shin Jin-mi	(1998-06-23)23 June 1998 (aged 26)	1.67 m	6	9	Busan