South Korea women's national football team

The South Korea women's national team (also known as Korea Republic women's national football team and Taegeuk Nangja) represent South Korea in women's association football. It is run by the Korean Football Association.

They played their first game against Japan on September 6, 1990, almost three months after the World Cup in Italy, which it lost 13-1. The defeat by Japan remains to be Korea Republic's biggest defeat.

South Korea qualified for their first World Cup in 2003, the year after co-hosting the 2002 FIFA World Cup with Japan. They lost all three of their games in the group stage, including a goal in their game against Norway. The Koreans lost 1-7, the same score as the 2014 FIFA World Cup semifinal.

The South Koreans would not qualify again until the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, after finishing inside the top four at the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup and drawing China PR. The South Koreans advanced on goal difference, popularly due to that 12-0 win over Myanmar. They qualified on 17 May, almost four weeks before the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. 2015 will be South Korea's first appearance in 12 years since 2003, the same with Russia and Belgium for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, both appeared for the first time since 2002.

Trivia

 * South Korea's first appearance was the 2003 tournament. Originally scheduled for China PR, it made decision to move it to the USA, who hosted the previous tournament.