Both nations participate in international sport as individual countries; unified teams are exceptions to this practice rather than the norm.

[1] A unified team under the name Korea (KOR) competed in 1991 World Table Tennis Championships and FIFA World Youth Championship with athletes from both North and South Korea.

[4] A unified team played in the women's ice hockey tournament as Korea under the IOC country code COR, using the Unification Flag and the "Arirang" anthem.

[8] Four unified teams also participated in the international table tennis event, 2018 Korea Open.

During the 2007 Asian Winter Games opening ceremony in China where North and South Korea marched together, their placard displayed only the English name "Korea", with no Chinese-language name present.