Kim Woo-young

Kim Woo-young
Date of birth	17th June 1988
place of birth	Seoul , South Korea
size	183 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2007-2011	Korea University
2011-2015	Anyang Halla
2015-2017	Daemyung Sangmu
since 2017	Daemyung Killer Whales

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김우영
Hanja	金宇陽
Revised Romanization	Gim U-yeong
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Uyŏng
See also : Korean name

Kim Woo-young (born June 17, 1988 in Seoul ) is a South Korean ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Daemyung Killer Whales in the Asia League Ice Hockey since 2017 .

Career

Kim Woo-young began his career as an ice hockey player on the Korea University team . There Anyang Halla became aware of him and he moved to the team from the Asia League Ice Hockey in 2011 . At the beginning of the 2012/13 season he played briefly in Finland, where he played one game for the second division HC Keski-Uusimaa and six games for the Porvoo Hunters from the third-class Suomi-sarja . In the 2013/14 season he was the captain of Anyang Halla. He played for Daemyung Sangmu from 2015 to 2017 before joining the Daemyung Killer Whales .

International

For South Korea, Kim Woo-young already took part in Division I of the 2006 U18 World Cup and Division II of the 2008 U20 World Cup.

For the men's national team , he was nominated for the first time in Division II of the 2009 World Cup and was promoted to Division I with his team. In 2011 and 2012 Kim represented his country at the World Championships in Division I. After rising 3-2 against hosts Poland , South Korea played in the following World Cup in 2013 for the first time in the A group of Division I. At the 2014 World Cup , he had to with the However, the South Koreans then accept relegation to the B group.

He also took part with the South Korean team in November 2012 in the qualifying tournament for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Promotion to Division I at the World Cup Division II, Group B
• 2012 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the World Championship Division I, Group B

Asia League statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	6th	232	10	37	47	199
Playoffs	3	14th	1	0	1	8th

(Status: end of the 2017/18 season)

Web links

• Kim Woo-young at eliteprospects.com (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Woo-young is the first name.