He applied to the North Korean national team in 1985, where he participated in the qualifying campaigns for three World Cups in 1986, 1990 and 1994.
In 1992, he first opened the scoring against the host country, Japan who manages to equalize ten minutes from the end of the match at the 1992 AFC Asian Cup.
Since 2007, he is the head coach of the North Korean women's team, which he leads in the final stages of the 2007 World Cup in China and 2011 in Germany.
[5] The North Koreans reach the quarter-finals at the 2007 edition, the best result achieved by the selection in the World Cup.
They also won the 2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup and is on the North Korean bench at the 2008 Summer Olympics football tournament Beijing.