Head coach Sunwook Byun will be leading a national team which started to practise on 24th March at the Taereung Ice Rink. Korea will be in Khabarovsk, Russia, from 2nd to 14th April for a training camp. During this period, the team will have four exhibition games against local teams as preparation for the tournament in Goyang.

The roster also includes three Canadian-born, naturalized players and experienced veterans from Daemyung Sangmu Seoul.

Brock Radunske (Anyang Halla) is preparing for his second World Championship Division I event as a Korean. He had three goals and two assists in the 2013 event in Budapest. Forward Michael Swift and powerful defencemen Bryan Young got Korean citizenship in January and will play their first games in an IIHF championship in Goyang.

Swift is a talented player who scored most goals in the Asia League for three consecutive years. His teammate from High1, Young, is expected to improve the penalty kill, which has been a weakness of the Korean team.

Woosang Park (Daemyung Sangmu) has not recovered from injury yet but is still preparing for the World Championship while Sangwoo Shin (Daemyung Sangmu), who suffered a shoulder injury in the last round of the Asia League’s regular season, will be missing. Kisung Kim (Daemyung Sangmu) and his younger brother Sangwook Kim (Anyang Halla) will be playing their fourth consecutive World Championship together since 2011.

Korea jumped to 25th to 23rd place in the IIHF World Ranking in February and they will face Slovenia (14th), Austria (16th). Hungary (19th), Ukraine (20th) and Japan (22th) in the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A.