Korea women's national ice hockey team
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| General Manager | Lee Ji-yoon |
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| Head coach | Sarah Murray |
| Assistants | Rebecca Baker Kim Do-yun Pak Chol-ho |
| Captain | Park Jong-ah |
| Team colors | |
| IIHF code | N/A |
| Ranking | |
| Current IIHF | Unranked |
| First international | |
 Sweden 3–1 Korea  (Incheon, South Korea; 5 February 2018) |
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| Biggest win | |
| None | |
| Biggest defeat | |
 Switzerland 8–0 Korea (Gangneung, South Korea; 10 February 2018) Sweden 8–0 Korea (Gangneung, South Korea; 12 February 2018) |
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| Olympics | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2018) |
| International record (W–L–T) | |
| 0–5–0 | |
The Korea women's national ice hockey team is a representative side which is composed of players from both South Korea and North Korea.
The team competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics, competing as "Korea" under the IOC country code "COR".
In 2014, it was confirmed that South Korea women's national ice hockey team had qualified to participate at the 2018 Winter Olympics as part of the host country. Their participation at the 2018 Winter Olympics had been their second appearance following their debut in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
South Korea had proposed a unified team of the two Koreas at the Games. It was proposed that the team would participate at least in the women's ice hockey event and possibly more disciplines. The proposal came after North Korea competed in the Group A tournament of IIHF Women's World Championship Division II which was hosted in South Korea on April 2017. North Korea initially refused the proposal in June 2017 on the grounds of time constraints. However, an agreement was made with four weeks left before the Games commenced.
On 20 January 2018, the International Olympic Committee allowed a Unified Korean team to compete in the women's ice hockey event for the 2018 Winter Olympics under the "Olympic Korean Peninsula Declaration", allowing the team to compete as "Korea", using the acronym "COR". On 30 January 2018, the full roster of the unified Korean team was named.
The language difference of Korean spoken by players from South and North Korea became a challenge for the team during training. South and North Korea also use different terminology in ice hockey and head coach Sarah Murray does not speak Korean and has to rely her assistant and manager to communicate to the team's players.
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