Coach: Sung-Ok Oh

 

Key Players: Geum-Jeong Kim (left wing), Bit-Na Woo (centre back), Ji In Jung (right back)

 

Qualification for Poland 2018: 2017 AHF Asian Women’s Youth Championship – Winners

 

History in Tournament: 2006: 2nd, 2008: 6th, 2010: 9th, 2012: 9th, 2014: 5th, 2016: 3rd

 

Overview

 

Could the resurgence of Republic of Korea in recent years continue? With their junior team winning bronze at the 2018 IHF Women’s Junior World Championship earlier this month in Debrecen, Hungary, the pressure is on the Korean youth team to equal that feat – and replicate their result from the 2016 edition of the youth championship, held in Bratislava, Slovakia.

 

Two 17-year-old players were part of the squad in Hungary with right back Ji In Jung and centre back Geum-Jeong Kim playing three and five games respectively, scoring three and four goals – they will expect to play a lot more under Coach Oh in Poland as they aim to be on the podium again.

 

As usual, Korea have little competition on their continental courts in Asia and will look to European teams to play against before the tournament. They qualified for Poland having won their seventh-straight AHF Asian Women’s Youth Championship – held in Jakarta, Indonesia last August.

 

Korea won all six of their games, including the title decider in their final match – and the last match of the championship, where they beat Japan 34:20 to end on 12 points. The record in Indonesia was impressive with wins over Kazakhstan (49:16), hosts Indonesia (60:11), Uzbekistan (49:16), China (42:18) and then Japan.

 

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Group at Poland 2018

Group D: Republic of Korea, France, Spain, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Montenegro

 

Games at Poland 2018

All times local

 

Tuesday 7 August: KOR-TUN (16:00)

Wednesday 8 August: KAZ-KOR (18:00)

Friday 10 August: KOR-MNE (10:00)

Saturday 11 August: ESP-KOR (18:00)

Monday 13 August: KOR-FRA (14:00)

 

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Photo: Korean Handball Federation