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General interest
- Highlights : Korea did not compete at the first Asian Games, but have appeared in every edition since making its debut in 1954. In that time Korea has only finished outside the top three of the medal table twice, in 1962 and 1974.
  
  Korea will host the Games for a third time in 2014 in Incheon, after the 1986 Games in Seoul and the 2002 Games in Busan.
  
  Shooter Park Byung-Taek has the second biggest medal collection in Asian Games history. His 19 medals, including five gold, were won between 1990 and 2010, and only Chinese shooter Wang Yifu has claimed more medals.
  
  Despite only making his debut in 2006, swimmer Park Tae-Hwan has already amassed six gold medals - a number only matched by dressage rider Suh Jung-Kyun and archer Yang Chung-Hoon. Park Tae-Hwan's total haul of 14 medals for Korea is only beaten by Park Byung-Taek.
Anthem
- Title : Aegukka [Patriotic Song]
- Composer : Music by Ahn Eaktay.
- Inducted : 1948
Officials
- NOC President's name : Kim Jung Haeng
- NOC general secretary's name : Yang Jaiwan

Participation

Medals per sport

sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Archery	33	19	14	66
Athletics	33	31	48	112
Badminton	15	15	31	61
Baseball	3	1	1	5
Basketball	6	11	4	21
Bodybuilding	3	0	4	7
Bowling	24	19	15	58
Boxing	56	22	29	107
Canoe Sprint	3	10	14	27
Carom	1	1	2	4
Cycling Mountain Bike	1	0	0	1
Cycling Road	11	5	13	29
Cycling Track	18	21	25	64
Dance Sports	0	7	3	10
Diving	1	4	9	14
Dragon Boat	0	0	1	1
Equestrian Dressage	10	3	2	15
Equestrian Eventing	1	4	0	5
Equestrian Jumping	0	4	2	6
Fencing	32	34	24	90
Football	3	3	4	10
Go	3	0	1	4
Golf	12	8	8	28
Gymnastics Artistic	16	15	26	57
Gymnastics Rhythmic	0	0	3	3
Handball	11	0	2	13
Hockey	8	4	1	13
Judo	32	23	33	88
Karate	0	0	4	4
Modern Pentathlon	6	4	4	14
Pool	0	3	2	5
Roller Speed Skating	3	2	2	7
Rowing	1	14	21	36
Rugby Sevens	2	1	1	4
Rugby Union	2	0	0	2
Sailing	17	9	14	40
Sepaktakraw	1	1	6	8
Shooting	55	79	83	217
Soft Tennis	16	12	10	38
Squash	0	0	2	2
Swimming	21	14	54	89
Synchronised Swimming	0	3	4	7
Table Tennis	10	27	43	80
Taekwondo	47	9	4	60
Tennis	15	21	17	53
Triathlon	0	0	1	1
Volleyball	4	17	6	27
Water Polo	0	1	1	2
Weightlifting	31	25	28	84
Wrestling Freestyle	17	15	33	65
Wrestling Greco-Roman	32	10	13	55
Wushu	1	4	6	11
Total	617	535	678	1830

Medals per year

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2010	76	65	91	232
2006	58	52	82	192
2002	96	80	84	260
1998	65	46	53	164
1994	63	56	64	183
1990	54	54	73	181
1986	93	55	76	224
1982	28	28	37	93
1978	18	20	31	69
1974	16	26	16	58
1970	18	13	23	54
1966	12	18	21	51
1962	4	9	10	23
1958	8	7	12	27
1954	8	6	5	19
Total	617	535	678	1830