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The Korea women's national basketball team is a combined representative team composed of players from both South Korea and North Korea. The team competed in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.
FIBA ranking | N/A |
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Joined FIBA | N/A |
FIBA zone | N/A |
National federation | Korea Basketball Association / Amateur Basketball Association of DPR of Korea |
Coach | Lee Moon-kyu |
Olympic Games | |
Appearances | None |
World Cup | |
Appearances | None |
Asian Games | |
Appearances | 1 |
Medals | Silver: (2018) |
First international | |
Korea 108–40 Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia; 15 August 2018) | |
Biggest win | |
Korea 108–40 Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia; 15 August 2018) | |
Biggest defeat | |
China 71–65 Korea (Jakarta, Indonesia; 1 September 2018) |
The team competed in the 2018 Asian Games.[1] South Korea and North Korea will compete as one in select events in the Asian Games. The composition of the 12-player team roster will be largely South Korean with 3 players being North Korean.[2] The team will be led by South Korea's head coach Lee Moon-kyu.[3]
South Korea and North Korea held exhibition games in men's and women's basketball at the Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Gymnasium in the latter's capital of Pyongyang in July 2018.[4] Two of the games featured mixed-teams with players from both countries; Team Prosperity and Team Peace while the other two games featured the national teams of both countries.[5] Head coach Lee Moon-kyu used the exhibition matches by the women's teams to scout for possible North Korean players who may be included in the unified Korea team.[6]
In the group stage of the women's basketball competition, the unified Korea was drawn in Group X with Kazakhstan, Indonesia and India.[6]
In April 2019, the FIBA Central Board approved their participation "in principle" at the 2019 FIBA Women's Asia Cup.[7] However such plan did not materialize with the Korean peninsula represented solely by South Korea in the tournament.
The unified Korean team had a local Korean manufacturer as their kit supplier instead of the Nike, the kit-supplier of the South Korea women's national team to avoid violating sanctions imposed on North Korea banning the importation of luxury goods including sports equipment.[8]
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