TheBreakdown
Full time9 November 1996
Korea
25–41
Japan
Taipei Stadium, Taipei, Chinese Taipei · Asian Championship 1996Head-to-head

Japan won by 16 points.

Scoring

  1. –CKorea conversion · Soo Song Young2–0
  2. –PKorea penalty · Soo Song Young5–0
  3. –TKorea try · Min-Suk Yoo10–0
  4. –TKorea try · Chul-Ki No15–0
  5. –TKorea try · Young-Choon Kim20–0
  6. –TKorea try · Young-Choon Kim25–0
  7. –CJapan conversion · Keiji Hirose25–2
  8. –PJapan penalty · Keiji Hirose25–5
  9. –PJapan penalty · Keiji Hirose25–8
  10. –PJapan penalty · Keiji Hirose25–11
  11. –TJapan try · Hiroki Ozeki25–16
  12. –TJapan try · Daisuke Ohata25–21
  13. –TJapan try · Daisuke Ohata25–26
  14. –TJapan try · Daisuke Ohata25–31
  15. –TJapan try · Ko Izawa-Nakamura25–36
  16. –TJapan try · Hiroyuki Kajihara25–41

Line-ups

Korea

  1. 1Jin-Hong KimProp
  2. 2Hyeong Jun KimHooker
  3. 3In Sueng BaekProp
  4. 4Young-Choon KimSecond row
  5. 5Dong Ho KangSecond row
  6. 6Tin-Bae ParkFlanker
  7. 7Young Jae ChoiFlanker
  8. 8Keun Wook LeeNumber 8
  9. 9Chul-Ki NoScrum-half
  10. 10Soo Song YoungFly-half
  11. 11Sang-Kill LeeWing
  12. 12Jae-Hyun KimCentre
  13. 13Min-Suk YooCentre
  14. 14Hyan Min ChoiWing
  15. 15Deuk Joon ChaeFull-back
  16. 16Sung-Kyu ParkBench
  17. 17Dong-Sun KimBench
  18. 18Sung-Nam KimBench
  19. 19Hae-Kyung SungBench
  20. 20Jae-Sung KimBench
  21. 21Chul-Woong KwakBench

Japan

  1. 1Kazu HamabeProp
  2. 2Masaaki SakataHooker
  3. 3Shuji ShimizuProp
  4. 4Yoshihiko SakurabaSecond row
  5. 5Hiroyuki TanumaSecond row
  6. 6Hiroyuki KajiharaFlanker
  7. 7Ko Izawa-NakamuraFlanker
  8. 8Takeomi ItoNumber 8
  9. 9Wataru MurataScrum-half
  10. 10Keiji HiroseFly-half
  11. 11Daisuke OhataWing
  12. 12Yukio MotokiCentre
  13. 13Akira YoshidaCentre
  14. 14Hiroki OzekiWing
  15. 15Tsutomu MatsudaFull-back
  16. 16Osami YatsuhashiBench
  17. 17Hitoshi KawashimaBench
  18. 18Hideki NishidaBench
  19. 19Takashi AkatsukaBench
  20. 20Kenichi KimuraBench
  21. 21Takayuki FujiBench

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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.