South Korea at the Paralympics

Sporting event delegation

South Korea at the Paralympics

IPC code	KOR
NPC	Korean Paralympic Committee
Website	www.koreanpc.kr
Medals Ranked 16th	Gold 127 Silver 108 Bronze 111 Total 346
Summer appearances
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter appearances
1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

The Republic of Korea (South Korea) first participated at the Paralympic Games in 1968, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Paralympic Games since then. South Korea has also participated in every Winter Paralympic Games since the 1992 Games.^[1]

With 343 medals, of which 126 gold, 108 silver and 109 bronze, South Korea (following the 2016 Summer Paralympics) has been ranked among the top twenty nations around the world in the all-time Paralympic Games medal tally.^[2]

Medals

Medals by Summer Games


Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1968 Tel-Aviv	0	0	0	0
1972 Heidelberg	4	2	1	7
1976 Toronto	1	2	1	4
1980 Arnhem	2	2	1	5
1984 Stoke Mandeville and New York City	0	2	2	4
1988 Seoul*	40	35	19	94
1992 Barcelona	11	15	18	44
1996 Atlanta	13	2	15	30
2000 Sydney	18	7	7	32
2004 Athens	11	11	6	28
2008 Beijing	10	8	13	31
2012 London	9	9	9	27
2016 Rio	7	11	17	35
2020 Tokyo	2	10	12	24
Totals (14 entries)	128	116	121	365

Medals by Winter Sports


Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1992 Tignes-Albertville	0	0	0	0
1994 Lillehammer	0	0	0	0
1998 Nagano	0	0	0	0
2002 Salt Lake City	0	1	0	1
2006 Turin	0	0	0	0
2010 Vancouver	0	1	0	1
2014 Sochi	0	0	0	0
2018 Pyeongchang*	1	0	2	3
2022 Beijing	0	0	0	0
Totals (9 entries)	1	2	2	5

Medals by Summer Sport

Source:^[2]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Archery	15	10	13	38
Athletics	27	23	21	71
Boccia	10	5	6	20
Cycling	3	6	5	14
Dartchery	0	1	0	1
Judo	4	2	8	14
Lawn Bowls	0	1	2	3
Powerlifting	7	8	5	20
Shooting	23	19	15	57
Swimming	7	2	6	15
Table Tennis	27	35	36	98
Weightlifting	2	0	1	3
Wheelchair Fencing	3	1	1	5
Total	128	116	121	365

Medals by Winter Sport

Source:

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Alpine skiing	0	1	0	1
Cross-country skiing	1	0	1	2
Para ice hockey	0	0	1	1
Wheelchair curling	0	1	0	1
Total	1	2	2	5

References

^ Korea at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
^ ^a ^b "Team Republic of Korea". Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

National sports teams of South Korea

A1GP
American football
Badminton
Baseball
- M
- W
Baseball5
Basketball
- M
- M U-19
- M U-17
- M 3x3
- W
- W U-19
- W U-17
Beach soccer
Boxing
Cricket
- M
- W
Esports
Field hockey
- M
- W
Floorball
Football
- M
- M U-23
- M U-20
- M U-17
- CP
- W
- W U-20
- W U-17
Futsal
Goalball
Handball
- M
- M-J
- M-Y
- W
- W-J
Ice hockey
- M
- M U-20
- M U-18
- W
- W U-18
Korfball
Kabaddi
Rugby union
- M
- M7
- W7
Short track
- M
- W
Softball
- M
- W
- W U-19
Squash
Tennis
- M
- W
Volleyball
- M
- W
- W U-18
Water polo
- M
- W
Wheelchair basketball

Olympics
Paralympics
Asian Games

v t e Nations that have competed at the Paralympic Games
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Comoros Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany East West Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel¹ Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia Winter Fiji New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu
Other	Independent Paralympic Participants Individual Paralympic Athletes Neutral Paralympic Athletes Refugee Paralympic Team RPC Unified Team
Historical	Czechoslovakia East Germany Rhodesia Serbia and Montenegro Soviet Union Yugoslavia
¹ Israel has been a member of the European Paralympic Committee (EOC) since 1994.