The South Korean men's ice hockey team struggled hard at the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games, but finally lost to the Japanese team and failed to reach the final. On the 13th, the South Korean men's ice hockey team led by coach Kim Woo-jae played in the semifinals of this Asian Winter Games held at the Harbin Ice Hockey ArenaPenalty shootout, losing 3-4 to Japan. The South Korean team will face the Chinese team in the bronze medal match to be held at the same venue at 10 am on the 14th.

South Korea men's ice hockey team

South Korea's best men's ice hockey result in the 2017 Asian Winter Games was the silver medal at the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo. He challenged for the championship for the first time in this tournament, but was blocked by the Japanese team.

Previously, South Korea defeated Japan 5-2 in the third match of Group A of the group stage, but met again in the semi-finals, kneeling after a penalty defeat. In the game, South Korea took the lead for most of the game, and the struggling Japanese team pulled a goal back more than 2 minutes before the end of the third game to bring the game back to the original point of 3-3.

In the 10-minute extra time game won by the Golden Goal, the South Korean team once fell into a small number disadvantage, but with the excellent defense of Goley, Lee Liansheng and others, they struggled through the crisis, and the two teams finally went to a penalty shootout. However, in the penalty shootout, the South Korean team did not score a goal and could only accept the result of defeat.