South Korea - 2013 Ansan-Wooricard Cup

South Korea Cup is going to start soon (20 July). The participating teams are the same teams that plays V-League. I really don't know if KBSN will allow broadcasting to foreigners this year. It seems that access to live tv are restricted to south koreans only.

Pool A
GS
Hyundai
Heungkuk

Pool B
IBK
EX
KGC

Round Schedule (July)
20 - GS X Hyundai
21 - IBK X EX
22 - Hyundai X Heungkuk
23 - EX X KGC
24 - Heungkuk X GS
25 - KGC X IBK

New clothes to GS Caltex's players




Source: kovo.co.kr

GS is the current Champion of South Korea Cup (2012 Suwon Cup).

GS 1X3 Hyundai (25:20, 20:25, 18:25, 23:25)

Best player: Yang Hyo-jin (MB).
She scored 20 points (11 kills, 5 aces and 4 blocks). Not bad for a middle-blocker.

IBK 3X0 EX (25:15, 25:19, 25:21)

Best player: Kim Hee-jin (MB)
17 points (15 kills and 2 blocks)

Without foreigners players to lead the attack actions, teams with good MBs are using them a lot.

Quote from forzalube

Team has same rosters of Korean championship but without foreign player?

Yep.

Hyundai 3X0 Heungkuk (25:23, 25:17, 25:24)

Best player: Yang Hyo-jin (MB) - 12 points (8 kills - 8/18, 44,44%, 1 ace and 3 blocks). She is the most reliable player since last season.

I don't know why but this season I'm supporting anyone against Heungkuk.

EX 2X3 KGC (22:25, 25:17, 20:25, 25:16, 12:15)

Joyce is coming...

Heungkuk 1X3 GS (15:25, 25:22, 21:25, 22:25)

Best player: Han Song-yi - 27 points (23 kills, 45,10%, and 4 blocks)

KGC 1X3 IBK (25:23, 10:25, 15:25, 20:25)

Best players
Kim Hee-jin (IBK): 28 points (22 kills - 46,81%, 3 aces and 3 blocks)
Park Jeong-ah (IBK): 23 poinst (22 kills - 44,90% and 1 block)
They spiked 71,64% of IBK attacks. The other players altogether scored only 20 points.

Baek Mok-Hwa (KGC): 21 points (20 kills - 37,04% and 1 ace). Baek is a good player.

Semi-final
Hyundai 3:2 KGC (22:25, 25:17, 23:25, 26:24, 15:11)

Best scorer: Baek Mok-hwa - 20 points (17 kills, 1 ace and 2 blocks). Hyundai served on her for a long time.

Semi-final 2
IBK 3X1 GS (25:17, 20:25, 25:17, 25:19)

Best player: Kim Hee-jin - 19 points (16 kills - 41,03% and 3 blocks)

South Korea has a great pair of middle-blockers, Kim Hee-jin and Yang Hyo-jin. Three promising players: Baek Mok-Hwa, Park Jeong-ah and Lee So-young. A good setter, Kim Sa-nee. A volleyball star: there's no need to say the name. And much more... There's only few countries in the world with such balanced roster.
An amazing team and a really competitive one.
The problem is that their strategy and tactics are really bad. With a good coach they could be one of the greatest teams in the whole world. No doubt.

Final (tomorrow)
Hyundai X IBK

Congratulations to IBK!

Without their main player, Yang Hyo-jin, Hyundai couldn't level the playing field and defeat IBK, also champion of last V-League.

Best player: Kim Hee-jin again - 20 points (17 kills - 47,22%, 1 ace and 2 blocks)

Hyundai 0X3 IBK (20:25, 13:25, 17:25)