The South Korea national rugby sevens team is a minor national sevens side. They sometimes take part in the
Rugby World Cup Sevens
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, and have competed in the
Hong Kong Sevens
The Hong Kong Sevens () is an rugby sevens tournament held annually in Hong Kong on a weekend in late March or early April. Considered the premier tournament on the World Rugby Sevens Series competition, the Hong Kong Sevens is currently the s ...
since the 1980s.
South Korea made their Olympic debut at the
2020 Tokyo Olympics
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, they had qualified the previous year after defeating
Hong Kong
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at the
2019 Asia Rugby Sevens Olympic Qualifying Tournament in
Incheon
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.
Tournament history
Summer Olympics
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Asian Games
Hong Kong Sevens results
Sri Lanka Sevens
:
Players
Current squad
Squad to the
2021 Olympics in Tokyo:
Head coach:
Seo Chun-oh
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Organisations
* SEO Economic Research, a scientific institute
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References
* McLaren, Bill ''A Visit to Hong Kong'' in Starmer-Smith, Nigel & Robertson, Ian (eds) ''The Whitbread Rugby World '90'' (Lennard Books, 1989),
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