Women's volleyball won the bronze medal at the 1976
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Montreal Olympics, marking the first ever Olympic medal in Korean sports.
In London in 2012 and Tokyo in 2021, they made it to the semifinals of the Olympics.
Men's volleyball also surprised the world by reaching the semifinals of the 1978 World Championships in Italy.
However, both men and women are not confident of winning medals at the Asian Games.
The current "six-man volleyball" has become an official Asian Games event since the 1958 Tokyo Olympics for men and the 1962 Jakarta Games for women.
Korean men's volleyball has been on the podium in 14 consecutive competitions, from the 1966 Bangkok Games to the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games.
He won gold medals in Bangkok in 1978, Busan in 2002, and Doha in 2006. It came in second place seven times and third place four times.
At the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, he won a silver medal.
South Korea's women's volleyball team finished fifth at the 2006 Doha Games, but won medals in all 14 other competitions.
He reached the top of Hiroshima in 1994 and Incheon in 2014, and added eight silver and two bronze medals. In 2018, it ranked third.
The prospects for the Hangzhou Games are very gloomy.
South Korea's men's volleyball ranked 27th in the world, the fourth in Asia after Japan (5th), Iran (11th), and Qatar (17th).
In the 2023 Asian Challenge Cup, where Japan and China (29th) were absent, they were defeated by Bahrain (73rd) in the semifinals and finished third, and at the 2023 Asian Volleyball Championships, they lost to China in the semifinals.
Lim Do-hun, head coach of the Korean men's national team, tried to turn the mood around by including veteran setter Han (Korean Air) in the Asian Games national team.
It is hoped that Han, experienced outside heaters Jung Ji-seok (Korean Air) and Jeon Kwang-in (Hyundai Capital) will run the game stably, while young apogit spyers Heo Soo-bong (Hyundai Capital) and Lim Dong-hyuk (Korean Air) will cheer up.
The fact that Japan, Iran, Qatar, and China will hold preliminary rounds for the Paris Olympics from the 30th after completing their Asian Games schedule could also be a good thing for South Korea. South Korea, which failed to qualify for the Paris Olympics, will focus on the Asian Games.
The Hangzhou Asian Games will open on the 23rd, but the men's volleyball, which will involve 19 teams, will start its schedule on the 19th and play the final match on the 26th.
Host country China has adjusted its Asian Games men's volleyball schedule to send the "first-tier national team" to the Asian Games and Paris Olympics qualifiers.
Japan, Iran and Qatar plan to run the national team with weight on qualifying for the Paris Olympics.
The Korean men's national team will play Group C qualifiers against India (72nd) and Cambodia (not counted in the rankings), and advance to the round of 12 if it is in the top two. After that, he begins his medal challenge in earnest.
As Kim Yeon-kyung, Kim Soo-ji (Hukkuk Life Insurance) and Yang Hyo-jin (Hyundai Engineering & Construction) announced their retirement from the national team after the Tokyo Olympics, the Korean women's volleyball team continues its difficult move.
The world ranking fell to 36th place.
In Asia, there are four teams ranked higher in the world than Korea, from China (6th), Japan (8th), Thailand (14th), and Kazakhstan (33rd).
South Korea's women's volleyball team realized its harsh reality by finishing sixth at the 2023 Asian Volleyball Championships.
Women's volleyball at the Hangzhou Asian Games, which will feature 13 teams, will be held from 30th to October 7th.
South Korea, China, Japan, and Thailand will travel to Hangzhou after qualifying for the Paris Olympics from the 16th to the 24th.
China and Japan, which are qualifying for the Paris Olympics in their countries, are not burdened with physical strength. South Korea and Thailand, which are competing in the preliminary round of the Paris Olympics in Poland, must also fight the "time difference."
The South Korean women's national team, led by Cesar Hernandez Gonzalez, will use wing striker Park Jung-ah (Pepper Savings Bank), Kang So-hwi (GS Caltex), middle blocker Lee Da-hyun (Hyundai Engineering & Construction), Lee Ju-ah (Heungkuk Life Insurance), Jung Ho-young and Park Eun-jin (Jeong Kwan-jang).
The Korean women's team will play against Vietnam (40th) and Nepal (not ranked). The top two teams advance to the quarterfinals.
The beach volleyball "two-man volleyball" will be held in Ningbo from the 19th to the 28th.
In Korea, men's Kim Myung-jin and Bae In-ho (Yeongcheon Sports Council), Lee Dong-seok and Kim Joon-young (Hwaseong City Hall), women's Lee Ho-bin, Shin Ji-eun, Jeon Ha-ri, and Kim Se-yeon (Gyeongil University) will participate.
