TheBreakdown
Full time14 July 2002
Korea
17–55
Japan
Tongdaemun Stadium, Seoul, Korea · Men's Rugby World Cup Qualifying 2003Head-to-head

Japan won by 38 points.

Scoring

  1. 1’TJapan try · Hirotoki Onozawa0–5
  2. 1’TJapan try · Hideki Namba0–10
  3. 1’TJapan try · Adam Parker0–15
  4. 1’TJapan try · Ryohei Miki0–20
  5. 1’TJapan try · Takuro Miuchi0–25
  6. 5’TJapan try · Daisuke Ohata0–30
  7. 11’TJapan try · Luatangi Samurai Vatuvei0–35
  8. 12’CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara0–37
  9. 20’TKorea try · Young Jun Choi5–37
  10. 21’CKorea conversion · Young Jun Choi7–37
  11. 27’TKorea try · Chang-Min Park12–37
  12. 38’TJapan try · Yukio Motoki12–42
  13. 39’CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara12–44
  14. 48’CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara12–46
  15. 65’TKorea try · Jin-Wook Lee17–46
  16. 74’CJapan conversion · Toru Kurihara17–48
  17. 78’CJapan conversion · Andy Miller17–50
  18. 82’TJapan try · Toru Kurihara17–55

Line-ups

Korea

  1. 1Young-Geun KimProp
  2. 2Han Young HoonHooker
  3. 3Jon-Heung KimProp
  4. 4Jin Bae ParkSecond row
  5. 5Dong Ho KangSecond row
  6. 6Tae-Il WooFlanker
  7. 7Yong Nam KimFlanker
  8. 8Noh-Young ParkNumber 8
  9. 9Myung-Geun LeeScrum-half
  10. 10Young Jun ChoiFly-half
  11. 11Jin-Wook LeeWing
  12. 12Chang-Min ParkCentre
  13. 13Min-Suk YooCentre
  14. 14Chul-Woong KwakWing
  15. 15Hwan-Myung YongFull-back
  16. 17Woo Sik ShinBench
  17. 18Dong-Sun KimBench
  18. 19Chan Sik ParkBench
  19. 20Chul-Ki NoBench
  20. 21Se-Woong KimBench
  21. 22Jae-Hyun KimBench

Japan

  1. 1Shin HasegawaProp
  2. 2Masaaki SakataHooker
  3. 3Masahiko ToyoyamaProp
  4. 4Koichi KuboSecond row
  5. 5Luatangi Samurai VatuveiSecond row
  6. 6Naoya OkuboFlanker
  7. 7Takuro MiuchiFlanker
  8. 8Yuya SaitoNumber 8
  9. 9Shinichi TsukdaScrum-half
  10. 10Andy MillerFly-half
  11. 11Toru KuriharaWing
  12. 12Yukio MotokiCentre
  13. 13Hideki NambaCentre
  14. 14Daisuke OhataWing
  15. 15Hirotoki OnozawaFull-back
  16. 16Masahito YamamotoBench
  17. 17Ryo YamamuraBench
  18. 18Adam ParkerBench
  19. 19Takeomi ItoBench
  20. 20Wataru MurataBench
  21. 21Kensuke IwabuchiBench
  22. 22Ryohei MikiBench

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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.