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This article is about the South Korean Women’s National Football Team at the Women’s World Cup 2015 in Canada. South Korea took part in the World Cup final for the second time. The team qualified as fourth in the 2014 Asian Championship.

Qualification
South Korea did not have to qualify for the Asian Championship, but was set like Australia, China and Japan and benefited from the ban of the North Korean women because of the doping offenses at the last World Cup.

Group phase

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Already by the first place in the group South Korea was qualified for the World Cup. Preliminary round opponents Thailand qualified through the match for 5th place against hosts Vietnam also for the World Cup and participates for the first time.

Semi-finals

Play for Place 3

In total, coach Yoon Deok-yeo used 20 players, of which only eight were used in all five games. The best scorer with six goals was Park Eun-sun, who was thus together with the Chinese Yang Li queen of the tournament.

Preparation
After the Asian Championship, South Korea also participated in the Asian Games and contested the qualification for the East Asian Championship:
14 September 2014 in Incheon against World Cup participants Thailand: 5:0 (2:0)
17 September 2014 in Incheon against India: 10:0 (5:0)
21 September 2014 in Incheon against the Maldives: 13:0 (5:0)
September 26, 2014 quarterfinals in Incheon against the Republic of China: 1:0 (0:0)
29 September 2014 semi-final in Incheon against North Korea: 1:2 (1:1)
1 October 2014 Match for third place in Incheon against Vietnam: 3-0 (0:0)
12 November 2014 Qualification for the East Asian Championship in Hsinchu against Guam: 15:0 (5:0)
15 November 2014 Qualification for the East Asian Championship in Hsinchu against Hong Kong: 9:0 (7:0)
18 November 2014 Qualification for the East Asian Championship in Taipei against the Republic of China: 2:0 (1:0)

In January 2015, South Korea participated in the four-nation tournament with three other World Cup participants in Shenzhen (People's Republic of China):
11 January 2015 against Canada 1:2 (1:0)
13 January 2015 against China 3:2 (1:2)
15 January 2015 against Mexico 2:1 (1:0)

In March 2015, the team again participated in the traditional Cyprus Cup, meeting World Cup hosts Canada (0:1 on 6 March) as well as the teams from Italy (1:2 on 4 March) and Scotland (1:2 on 9 March) who failed in the European playoff games. As the worst group fourth of the two more heavily occupied groups, the South Koreans met on 11 March in the match for 11th place on the fourth of group C, the Belgian women, against whom they had never played before. After the game was 1:1 after 90 minutes, the penalty shooting was won with 5:3.

On 5 and 8. In April, South Korea played in Incheon. Daejeon against Russia and won 1-0 and 2-0 respectively. On May 1, a provisional squad of 26 players was named, which will run from 8 to 15. May come together for a training camp and