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National team · South Korea

49 Matches
32 wins
17 losses
4152–3823 Points
+329 Difference
84.7 Average per match
Form W 10 Sep · Home Saudi Arabia · 82:66 W 11 Sep · Away Indonesia · 102:48 W 13 Sep · Away Japan · 100:83 W 16 Sep · Away Jordan · 114:80 W 18 Sep · Home Iran · 77:51 W 20 Sep · Away Japan · 67:57

South Korea remains a fixture near the top of Asian basketball, still chasing the FIBA Asia Cup titles that eluded it through the 2000s and 2010s while China and Iran have overtaken it as the region's benchmark. The gap with the rest of the world has been harder to close: the team has never reached an Olympic or World Cup podium, its best showings an eighth place at the 1948 Olympics and eleventh at the 1970 World Cup, played in Ljubljana.

Continentally the record reads differently. Two Asia Cup golds, in 1969 and 1997, sit alongside eleven silvers and twelve bronzes, a spread that says more about consistency than dominance — Korea has almost always been in the conversation, rarely the last team standing. The Asian Games have been kinder, with four golds, the most recent in 2014 under Yang Dong-geun, who captained that squad after four MVP awards in the domestic league.

No rivalry defines the team more than the one with Japan, known at home as Haniljeon, a fixture sharpened by decades of shared history on and off the court. Ha Seung-jin gave the programme its first NBA player, a rare crossing that briefly put Korean basketball on an American radar it has not occupied since. Earlier, Hur Jae built a reputation physical enough to earn the nickname "the Korean Charles Barkley," a label that stuck long after his playing days.

The Korea Basketball Association, which now runs the national team, was not always called that. It began in 1925 as the Choson Basketball Association, formed under Japanese colonial rule, and only took its current name in 1948 after liberation, later absorbing the National Basketball Federation in 2016.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
20 Sep Asian Games Japan A 67:57 W
18 Sep Asian Games Iran H 77:51 W
16 Sep Asian Games Jordan A 114:80 W
13 Sep Asian Games Japan A 100:83 W
11 Sep Asian Games Indonesia A 102:48 W
10 Sep Asian Games Saudi Arabia H 82:66 W

Standing

Asian Games

Group stage · Group D

# Team M W L Goals Pts
1 Japan 3 3 0 248:197 0
2 South Korea 3 2 1 248:202 0
3 Qatar 3 1 2 201:238 0
4 Indonesia 3 0 3 179:239 0
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 49
49 Matches
32 wins
17 losses
4152–3823 Points
+329 Difference
84.7 Average per match
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 49
32wins: 32 · 65% 17losses: 17 · 34%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
10 Sep · Home Saudi Arabia · 82:66
11 Sep · Away Indonesia · 102:48
13 Sep · Away Japan · 100:83
16 Sep · Away Jordan · 114:80
18 Sep · Home Iran · 77:51
20 Sep · Away Japan · 67:57
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 49 24 25
Scored 4152 2101 2051
Conceded 3823 1833 1990
Average per match 84.7 87.5 82.0
Conceded per game 78.0 76.4 79.6
Difference +329 +268 +61

Fixtures of South Korea

Honours of South Korea

  • Asian Games 1970, 1982, 2002, 2014 4
  • FIBA Asia Cup 1969, 1997 2
  • FIBA Asia Cup 1967, 1973, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003 11
  • Asian Games 1966, 1974, 1986, 1994, 1998, 2010 6
  • FIBA Asia Cup 1963, 1965, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1993, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2017 12
  • Asian Games 1962, 1966, 1990, 2018 4