TheBreakdown
Full time24 October 1998
Korea
12–40
Japan
Singapore National Stadium, Singapore, Singapore · Asian Championship 1998Head-to-head

Japan won by 28 points.

Scoring

  1. –CKorea conversion · Jae-Sung Kim2–0
  2. –TKorea try · Jin Bae Park7–0
  3. –TKorea try · Jae-Sung Kim12–0
  4. –CJapan conversion · Keiji Hirose12–2
  5. –CJapan conversion · Keiji Hirose12–4
  6. –CJapan conversion · Keiji Hirose12–6
  7. –CJapan conversion · Keiji Hirose12–8
  8. –CJapan conversion · Keiji Hirose12–10
  9. –TJapan try · Naoto Nakamura12–15
  10. –TJapan try · Yasunori Watanabe12–20
  11. –TJapan try · Yasunori Watanabe12–25
  12. –TJapan try · Terunori Masuho12–30
  13. –TJapan try · Tsutomu Matsuda12–35
  14. –TJapan try · Tsutomu Matsuda12–40

Line-ups

Korea

  1. 1Kyung-Woo KimProp
  2. 2Han Young HoonHooker
  3. 3In Sueng BaekProp
  4. 4Kwang-Jae KimSecond row
  5. 5Dong Ho KangSecond row
  6. 6Tae-Il WooFlanker
  7. 7Sung-Su LimFlanker
  8. 8Jin Bae ParkNumber 8
  9. 9Chul-Ki NoScrum-half
  10. 10Jae-Sung KimFly-half
  11. 11Hyun Min ChoiWing
  12. 12Min-Suk YooCentre
  13. 13Sung-Nam KimCentre
  14. 14Hyung Ki KimWing
  15. 15Chui-Woong KwanFull-back
  16. 16Hae-Kyung SungBench
  17. 17Jong Man ChunBench
  18. 18Jae-Hyun KimBench
  19. 19Je-Kil LeeBench
  20. 20Jon-Heung KimBench
  21. 21Jin Hwan AnBench
  22. 22Dong-Sun KimBench

Japan

  1. 1Toshikazu NakamichiProp
  2. 2Masahiro KundaHooker
  3. 3Naoto NakamuraProp
  4. 4Yoshihiko SakurabaSecond row
  5. 5Hiroyuki TamuraSecond row
  6. 6Yasunori WatanabeFlanker
  7. 7Greg SmithFlanker
  8. 8Takeomi ItoNumber 8
  9. 9Wataru MurataScrum-half
  10. 10Keiji HiroseFly-half
  11. 11Terunori MasuhoWing
  12. 12Yukio MotokiCentre
  13. 13Andrew McCormickCentre
  14. 14Daisuke OhataWing
  15. 15Tsutomu MatsudaFull-back
  16. 16Osami YatsuhashiBench
  17. 17Kensuke IwabuchiBench
  18. 18Katsuji OharaBench
  19. 19Ko Izawa-NakamuraBench
  20. 20Kei YasudaBench
  21. 21Kohei OguchiBench
  22. 22Shin HasegawaBench

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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.