TheBreakdown
Full time26 April 2008
Korea
17–39
Japan
Incheon Munhak Sports Complex, Incheon, Korea · Asian Five Nations 2008Head-to-head

Japan won by 22 points.

Scoring

  1. –CKorea conversion · Jun Ki Hong2–0
  2. –CKorea conversion · Jun Ki Hong4–0
  3. –PKorea penalty · Jun Ki Hong7–0
  4. –TKorea try · Young Nam You12–0
  5. –TKorea try · Sung Soo Kim17–0
  6. –CJapan conversion · James Arlidge17–2
  7. –CJapan conversion · James Arlidge17–4
  8. –TJapan try · James Arlidge17–9
  9. –TJapan try · Hirotoki Onozawa17–14
  10. –TJapan try · Bryce Robins17–19
  11. –TJapan try · Hiroki Yoshida17–24
  12. –TJapan try · Go Aruga17–29
  13. –TJapan try · Tatsuya Kusumi17–34
  14. –TJapan try · Tatsuya Kusumi17–39

Line-ups

Korea

  1. 1Young-Geun KimProp
  2. 2Tae-Hyung KimHooker
  3. 3Kwang-Mo KimProp
  4. 4Dae Ik JeongSecond row
  5. 5Yong Nam KimSecond row
  6. 6Kwon Woo YounFlanker
  7. 7Young Nam YouFlanker
  8. 8Kwang Moon LeeNumber 8
  9. 9Younghun YangScrum-half
  10. 10Tae Il YoonFly-half
  11. 11Chui Kyu YooWing
  12. 12Min-Hyung YooCentre
  13. 13Sung Soo KimCentre
  14. 14Jung Min LeeWing
  15. 15Jae Young ChaeFull-back
  16. 16Sung-Kyun JungBench
  17. 17Woong HeoBench
  18. 18Seon Kyu ParkBench
  19. 19Wanyong ParkBench
  20. 20Jun Ki HongBench
  21. 21Sang Yong MoonBench
  22. 22Gyu Deuk LeeBench

Japan

  1. 1Tatsukichi NishiuraProp
  2. 2Yusuke AokiHooker
  3. 3Tomokazu SomaProp
  4. 4Hitoshi OnoSecond row
  5. 5Tomoaki TaniguchiSecond row
  6. 6Koji ShinozukaFlanker
  7. 7Takashi KikutaniFlanker
  8. 8Takuro MiuchiNumber 8
  9. 9Tomoki YoshidaScrum-half
  10. 10James ArlidgeFly-half
  11. 11Hirotoki OnozawaWing
  12. 12Ryan NicholasCentre
  13. 13Bryce RobinsCentre
  14. 14Hiroki YoshidaWing
  15. 15Go ArugaFull-back
  16. 16Taku InokuchiBench
  17. 17Akira OzakiBench
  18. 18Toshizumi KitagawaBench
  19. 19Yoshitaka NakayamaBench
  20. 20Takashi SatoBench
  21. 21Shotaro OnishiBench
  22. 22Tatsuya KusumiBench

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Context

All-time, Korea 7–33 Japan, 1 drawn in 41 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Korea going in
Japan going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.