South Korea has competed in the FISU World University Games in several years.

South Korea at the Universiade
IOC code	KOR
National federation	Korea University Sports Federation (KUSF)
Website	www.kusf.or.kr
Medals	Gold 367 Silver 296 Bronze 331 Total 994
Summer appearances
1967 1970 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021
Winter appearances
1966 1968 1970 1972 1975 1978 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2023

History

In the 1959 Turin Universiade, South Korea participated as an observer and don't send competitors. In 1966, South Korea joined International University Sports Federation as an official member and participated in Summer World University Games in 1967.^[1]

Medal count

Summer Universiade

South Korea has won 736 medals at the Summer Universiade and is in the sixth place on the all-time Summer Universiade medal table.

  Host nation

Edition					Rank
Turin 1959	Did not participate
Sofia 1961	Did not participate
Porto Alegre 1963	Did not participate
Budapest 1965	Did not participate
Tokyo 1967	1	9	1	11	10
Turin 1970	0	0	1	1	21
Moscow 1973	0	0	2	2	23
Rome 1975	Did not participate
Sofia 1977	0	0	1	1	22
Mexico City 1979	1	1	0	2	15
Bucarest 1981	0	1	4	5	20
Edmonton 1983	0	0	1	1	23
Kobe 1985	3	0	4	7	12
Zagreb 1987	0	1	2	3	27
Duisburg 1989	0	0	1	1	27
Sheffield 1991	4	2	4	10	9
Buffalo 1993	2	4	4	10	13
Fukuoka 1995	10	7	10	27	5
Sicily 1997	5	3	2	10	9
Palma de Mallorca 1999	2	4	8	14	12
Beijing 2001	3	10	14	27	10
Daegu 2003	26	12	17	55	3
Ízmir 2005	11	14	9	34	7
Bangkok 2007	15	18	18	51	5
Belgrade 2009	21	11	15	47	3
Shenzhen 2011	28	21	30	79	3
Kazan 2013	17	12	12	41	4
Gwangju 2015	47	32	29	108	1
Taipei 2017	30	22	30	82	2
Naples 2019	17	17	16	50	5
Chengdu 2021	17	18	23	58	3
Rhein-Rühr 2025
Chungcheong 2027
Total	260	219	257	736

Winter Universiade

South Korea has won 256 medals at the Winter Universiade and are in the third place on the all-time Winter Universiade medal table.

  Host nation

Edition					Rank
Chamonix 1960
Villars 1962
Špindlerův Mlýn 1964
Sestriere 1966
Innsbruck 1968
Rovaniemi 1970
Lake Placid 1972	1	2	1	4	7
Livigno 1975
Špindlerův Mlýn 1978
Jaca 1981
Sofia 1983
Belluno 1985
Štrbské Pleso 1987
Sofia 1989	4	3	2	9	4
Sapporo 1991	6	2	2	10	2
Zakopane 1993	5	2	3	10	5
Jaca 1995	6	4	4	14	1
Muju-Jeonju 1997	5	2	4	11	6
Poprad Tatry 1999	0	0	0	0	0
Zakopane 2001	8	4	2	14	2
Tarvisio 2003	5	3	4	12	5
Innsbruck/Seefeld 2005	10	7	6	23	2
Turin 2007	10	12	9	31	1
Harbin 2009	12	7	9	28	3
Erzurum 2011	7	3	5	15	2
Trentino 2013	8	9	7	24	3
/ Granada/Štrbské Pleso-Osrblie 2015	5	9	2	16	2
Almaty 2017	11	5	5	21	3
Krasnoyarsk 2019	6	4	4	14	2
Lake Placid 2023	12	8	9	29	2
Total	121	86	78	285	2/3

Sports
Curling	1	2	2	5
Figure skating	0	1	1	2
Freestyle skiing	0	1	1	2
Short track speed skating	81	48	41	170
Ski jumping	4	5	1	10
Snowboarding	2	3	3	8
Speed skating	18	18	24	60

See also

• South Korea at the Olympics
• South Korea at the Paralympics
• South Korea at the Asian Games

References

• 2015 Sport White Paper by Korea Institute of Sport Science

External links