TheBreakdown
Full time18 December 1998
Korea
21–17
Japan
Army Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand · Asia Games 1998Head-to-head

Korea won by 4 points.

Scoring

  1. –CKorea conversion · Jae-Sung Kim2–0
  2. –CKorea conversion4–0
  3. –CKorea conversion6–0
  4. –TKorea try · Tae-Il Woo11–0
  5. –TKorea try · Tae-Il Woo16–0
  6. –TKorea try21–0
  7. –CJapan conversion · Keiji Hirose21–2
  8. –CJapan conversion · Keiji Hirose21–4
  9. –PJapan penalty · Keiji Hirose21–7
  10. –TJapan try · Keisuke Sawaki21–12
  11. –TJapan try · Tsutomu Matsuda21–17

Line-ups

Korea

  1. 1Kyung-Woo KimProp
  2. 2Han Young HoonHooker
  3. 3In Sueng BaekProp
  4. 4Dong Ho KangSecond row
  5. 5Kwang-Jae KimSecond row
  6. 6Sung-Su LimFlanker
  7. 7Tae-Il WooFlanker
  8. 8Jin Bae ParkNumber 8
  9. 9Cheol-Kee NoScrum-half
  10. 10Jae-Sung KimFly-half
  11. 11Hwan-Myung YongWing
  12. 12Min-Suk YooCentre
  13. 13Hyung Ki KimCentre
  14. 14Chui-Woong KwanWing
  15. 15Dong-Sun KimFull-back
  16. Jin Hwan AnBench
  17. Hae-Kyung SungBench

Japan

  1. 1Shin HasegawaProp
  2. 2Masahiro KundaHooker
  3. 3Naoto NakamuraProp
  4. 4Yoshihiko SakurabaSecond row
  5. 5Hiroyuki TamuraSecond row
  6. 6Ko Izawa-NakamuraFlanker
  7. 7Jun KomuraFlanker
  8. 8Takeomi ItoNumber 8
  9. 9Masami HorikoshiScrum-half
  10. 10Keiji HiroseFly-half
  11. 11Takafumi HiraoWing
  12. 12Yukio MotokiCentre
  13. 13Masamitsu OyabuCentre
  14. 14Tsutomu MatsudaWing
  15. 15Keisuke SawakiFull-back
  16. 16Hideki NambaBench
  17. 17Osami YatsuhashiBench
  18. 18Wataru MurataBench
  19. 19Masahiro KurokawaBench
  20. 20Takayuki SugataBench
  21. 21Kohei OguchiBench
  22. 22Tsuyoshi KinashitaBench

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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.