Korea reached the repechage round of qualification for the 1999, 2003, and 2007 Rugby World Cups, being eliminated by Tonga each time.

[2] For 2015, South Korea finished third in the final round, missing qualification directly and to the repechage phase.

Similar to 2015, South Korea missed direct or indirect qualification to the Rugby World Cup for both 2019 and 2023.

In 2022 South Korea lost to Hong Kong by two points, failing to advance to the repechage qualification play-offs.

During the mid-19th century, European sailors are recorded as playing some of the earliest games in north east Asia, in ports such as Shanghai and Yokohama in neighbouring China and Japan, but it is unclear whether this occurred in Korea itself.

The massive growth of the economy since the 1960s, meant that a number of Korean corporations were to set up company teams along the lines of those in Japan, and this has broken up the former dominance of the military.

In late 1977 Billy Cornett and Brad Handley got together and decided to form a new expat club – the Seoul Survivors.