South Korea (officially the Republic of Korea) competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from July 27 to August 12, 2012. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Olympics, having missed the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its support for the United States boycott. The Korean Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1992. A total of 248 athletes, 135 men and 113 women, competed in 22 sports.

South Korea left London with a total of 30 medals (13 gold, 9 silver, and 8 bronze), finishing fifth in the medal standings and tying its record for the most gold medals won at an Olympics with the total it set at Beijing. Six of these medals were awarded to the team in fencing, five in shooting, four in archery, and three in judo. South Korean athletes dominated in archery, where they won gold medals in all but one sporting events and broke two world records. Despite the absence of baseball and softball at the Olympics, South Korea's team-based athletes proved successful in London, as the men's football team won the bronze medal against neighbouring Japan. For the first time in its history, South Korea won Olympic medals in team fencing.

Among the nation's medalists were pistol shooter Jin Jong-oh, and taekwondo jin Hwang Kyung-seon, who both successfully defended their Olympic titles from Beijing. Three South Korean athletes won Olympic gold medals for the first time in history: gymnast Yang Hak-seon in the men's vault exercises, archer Oh Jin-hyek in the men's individual event, and sabre fencer Kim Ji-yeon in the women's individual event. Park Tae-hwan, who won two silver medals in London, emerged as the most successful South Korean swimmer in history, with a total of four Olympic medals.

Medalists

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Delegation 

The Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) selected a team of 245 athletes, 133 men and 112 women, to compete in 24 sports; it was the nation's smallest team sent to the Olympics since 1992. South Korea did not qualify athletes in basketball, canoeing, equestrian, and tennis. There was only a single competitor in rhythmic gymnastics, and in triathlon.

The South Korean team featured nine defending champions from Beijing, including freestyle swimmer Park Tae-hwan, the men's archery team (led by Im Dong-hyun), pistol shooter Jin Jong-oh, weightlifters Jang Mi-ran and Sa Jae-hyouk, and taekwondo jins Hwang Kyung-seon and Cha Dong-min. Among these champions, Jin Jong-oh only managed to defend his Olympic title for the second consecutive time. Handball player Yoon Kyung-shin, who competed at his fifth Olympics since 1992 (except the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where his team did not qualify), was the oldest athlete of the team, at age 39, and later became South Korea's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Platform diver Kim Su-ji, on the other hand, was the youngest of the team, at age 14.

Other notable South Korean athletes featured judoka and top medal contenders Wang Ki-chun and Kim Jae-bum, foil fencer and Olympic silver medalist Nam Hyun-hee, and butterfly swimmer and Youth Olympic gold medalist Chang Gyu-cheol.

The following table lists the number of South Korean competitors who participated in each Olympic sport. Note that swimming, synchronized swimming, diving and water polo are technically considered as one sport, aquatics. However, due to their significant practical differences, they are listed separately by tradition.

Archery

South Korea has qualified three archers for the men's individual event, three archers for the women's individual event, a team for the men's team event and a team for the women's team event

Men

Women

Athletics

South Korean athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):

Men
Track & road events

Field events

Women
Track & road events

Field events

Badminton

Men

Women

Mixed

Boxing

South Korea has so far qualified in the following events.

Men

Cycling

Road

Track
Sprint

Team sprint

Pursuit

Keirin

Omnium

Diving

Men

Women

Fencing

South Korea has qualified 14 fencers.
Men

Women

Field hockey

The South Korean women's hockey team have qualified a team of 16 players for the games by virtue of being runner-up at the 2010 Asian Games hockey tournament.

Men's tournament

Roster

South Korea is in Pool B of the men's tournament.

Group play

7th/8th place game

Women's tournament

Roster

South Korea is in Pool A of the women's competition.

Group play

7th/8th place

Football

Men's tournament

South Korea qualified a team of 18 players for the men's tournament. The squad won the bronze medal and the team were granted exemption to two years of mandatory military service but still required to do four weeks of basic training.

Roster

Group play

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Bronze medal game

Final rank 

Controversy
Park Jong-Woo was not present at the medal ceremony after the gold medal match between Mexico and Brazil and did not receive the bronze medal with the rest of his team due to his political position on the Liancourt Rocks, which are disputed both by South Korea and Japan by having a claim on the islands, after FIFA was notified about Park holding a sign of South Korea having claim on Dokdo, the Korean name for the islets. On 11 February 2013, Park attended an International Olympic Committee disciplinary hearing at Lausanne, Switzerland. After the Disciplinary Commission reviewed Park's action at the Olympics, the IOC decided to award the player the bronze medal he had been barred from collecting for several months.

Gymnastics

Artistic
Men
Team

Individual finals

Women

Rhythmic

Handball

South Korea has qualified for the men's and women's event by winning the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament

Men's tournament

Group play

Women's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Bronze medal match

Judo

Men

Women

Modern pentathlon

Based on their results at the 2011 Asian/Oceania Championships three South Korean pentathletes have qualified for London; Hwang Woo-Jin and Jung Jin-Hwa have earned places in the men's event; Yang Soo-jin has earned places in the women's event.

Rowing

South Korea has qualified the following boats.

Men

Women

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal);SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

South Korea has qualified 1 boat for each of the following events

Men

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race;

Shooting

South Korea has ensured berths in the following events of shooting:

Men

Women

Swimming

Korean swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):

Men

Women

Synchronized swimming

South Korea has qualified 2 quota places in synchronized swimming.

Table tennis 

South Korea has qualified three men and three women.

Men

Women

Taekwondo 

South Korea has ensured berths in the following events of taekwondo by reaching the top 3 of the 2011 WTF World Qualification Tournament:

Triathlon

South Korea has qualified the following athletes.

Volleyball

South Korea has qualified a women's team for the indoor tournament.

Women's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Bronze medal match

Weightlifting

South Korea has qualified 6 men and 4 women.
Men

Women

* Sa Jae-Hyouk was forced to retire from the competition after he dislocated his elbow during his second snatch attempt.

Wrestling 

South Korea has so far qualified the following quota places.

Men's freestyle

Men's Greco-Roman

Women's freestyle

References

Summer Olympics
Nations at the 2012 Summer Olympics
2012
대한민국은 2012년 7월 27일에서 8월 12일까지 영국 런던에서 열린 제30회 하계 올림픽에 참가했다. 미국 주도의 보이콧으로 인해 모스크바에서 열린 1980년 하계 올림픽을 불참한 것을 제외하면 연속 출전한 대한민국은 2012년 하계 올림픽이 대한민국의 16번째 올림픽이다. 대한체육회(KOC)는 1992년 하계 올림픽 이래 최소 인원의 선수단을 파견하였다. 총 248명의 선수들로 남자 135명, 여자 113명의 선수들이 이번 대회의 22종목에 참가하였다.

대한민국은 런던에서 30개의 메달 (금메달 13개, 은메달 9개, 동메달 8개) 을 획득여, 종합 순위 5위에 랭크되었고, 그에 따라 베이징에서 열린 전 대회인 2008년 하계 올림픽의 최다 금메달 기록과 동률을 이루었다. 이 30개의 메달 중 6개는 펜싱에서, 5개는 사격에서, 4개는 양궁에서, 3개는 유도에서 나왔다. 대한민국은 양궁 정상을 점하였는데, 금메달 3개를 획득하고, 이 대회에 기록한 신기록 두개를 모두 이 종목에서 기록하였다. 야구와 소프트볼이 올림픽에서 퇴출되었으나, 팀 종목에 출전한 대한민국의 선수들은 런던에서도 성공을 거두었다. 남자 축구 U-23 국가대표팀은 일본과의 동메달 결정전에서 이웃나라 일본에게 완승을 거두며 동메달을 획득하였고, 펜싱 단체전에서는 첫 메달을 획득하는 것은 물론, 금메달 획득에도 성공하였다. 여자배구는 36년 만에 4강에 진출하였다.

메달리스트들 중 피스톨 사격 선수 진종오와 태권도 선수 황경선은 베이징 대회에서 획득한 타이틀을 성공적으로 방어하였다. 3명의 대한민국 선수들은 각자 출전한 개인전 종목에서 첫 금메달을 수확하였다: 펜싱 사브르 선수인 김지연은 여자 사브르 개인전에서, 양궁 선수 오진혁은 남자 양궁 개인전에서, 체조 선수 양학선은 체조 도마에서 각각 금메달을 획득하였다. 이 대회에서 은메달 2개를 수확한 박태환은 통산 금메달 1개, 은메달 3개로 대한민국 올림픽 역사상 가장 성공적인 수영 선수가 되었다.

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 7월 30일  대한민국 2 : 0  뉴질랜드
 8월 2일  대한민국 0 : 1  독일
 8월 4일  벨기에 2 : 1  대한민국
 8월 5일  인도 1 : 4  대한민국
 8월 7일  대한민국 2 : 4  네덜란드

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 8월 9일  파키스탄 3 : 2  대한민국

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 7월 29일  중화인민공화국 4 : 0  대한민국
 8월 1일  영국 5 : 3  대한민국
 8월 2일  대한민국 1 : 0  일본
 8월 4일  네덜란드 3 : 2  대한민국
 8월 7일  대한민국 3 : 1  벨기에

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 8월 8일  대한민국 1 : 4  독일

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 7월 29일  크로아티아 31 : 21  대한민국
 7월 31일  대한민국 19 : 22  헝가리
 8월 2일  스페인 33 : 29  대한민국
 8월 4일  대한민국 22 : 28  세르비아
 8월 6일  덴마크 26 : 24  대한민국

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 7월 28일  스페인 27 : 31  대한민국
 7월 30일  대한민국 25 : 24  덴마크
 8월 1일  노르웨이 27 : 27  대한민국
 8월 3일  대한민국 21 : 24  프랑스
 8월 5일  스웨덴 28 : 32  대한민국

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 8월 7일  러시아 23 : 24  대한민국

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 8월 9일  노르웨이 31 : 25  대한민국

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 8월 11일  대한민국 29 : 31  스페인

신기록

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각주

외부 링크 
 Malaysia at the 2012 London Summer Games

대한민국
올림픽 대한민국 선수단
올림픽