The women’s volleyball team (39th in the world) finished the 2025 Korea Invitational Jinju International Women’s Volleyball Competition with 1 win and 4 losses.
The national team, led by Fernando Morales, lost 0-3 (18: 25/22: 25/21: 25) in the Czech Republic (13th) in the last day of the tournament at the Jinju Gymnasium in Gyeongnam. The day before (16th), Japan did not continue to ride the set score 3-2 (25: 18/19: 25/20: 25/25: 21/15: 12).
Korea, which is being replaced by generations, confirmed the gap with the world again. Although he has won Japan for the first time since the Tokyo Olympics (2021), the world’s fifth largest Japan played only 1.5 players. In addition, the Korean side, such as net touch and sub -ace, left behind.
Korea, which cannot be played in the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) next year, has held this competition to check international competitiveness. In addition to Korea, Japan, Argentina (17th), France (15th), Sweden (26th), and Czech Republic. Other teams, except Korea, held this tournament in order to check the world volleyball championship in Thai on the 22nd. Korea has no right to participate in the world championship, so this year was the last tournament of the women’s volleyball team this year.
Meanwhile, the women’s volleyball team under 21 advanced to the 13th to 14th place in the 2025 International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) U-21 World Championships. Korea, which was defeated in the round of 16 and defeated the 9th to 16th place in Brazil, was defeated in the Czech Republic and fell to the 13th to 16th place. However, he won the 13th to 14th place in the Indonesian match.
By Kim Yang -hee, reporter whizzer4@hani.co.kr