Seven middle school and fourteen high school teams will play from the 15th through the 27th, the A group for the university level will play from April 3rd through 11th, and the B group goes from March 27th through the 31st. This article says Cheongju Boys' Middle School and Chungbuk High School were last year's winners. The middle school, high school, and the A group play in Gangjin, while group B plays in Seoul (서울럭비구장). The Korea Rugby Union website doesn't provide information about these matches, but if you'd like to watch a couple you might try emailing the address given on the English-language pop-up (nathallemans@yahoo.ca) for details.
But given the difficulty I've had trying to track down the most basic information, I think maybe it's supposed to be a secret. The article says the matches in Gangjin take place at the 공설운동장. That's not really the name of the public fields out at 강진종합경기장, but if I had to take a guess I'd say the matches are there, on fields built a couple years ago next to a large facility about a 25 minute walk northeast of the bus terminal in Gangjin-eup, the county seat (map in Korean here). Gangjin is roughly two hours south of Gwangju by bus.
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Samsung used to have a Sevens tournament every summer. Two different tourneys were played at the same time, high school and uni.
At least back in 97, I was on the training staff of the only (at the time) women's rugby team in Korea. Our exhibition match against a quickly-thrown-together team from Kyunghee U was actually televised during halftime of the Samsung Sevens finals.
I think the women's team is still active, and now travels around Asia to play tourneys.
I'm going to have to look up any rugby schedules (men or women) for something to do this summer.
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