Ri Kum-suk

Ri Kum-suk (; or ; born 16 August 1978) is a North Korean footballer who plays for April 25 Sports Club. She plays a key role not only for her club, but also for national teams in the AFC Women's Asian Cup, Asian Games and FIFA Women's World Cup. She is the highest goalscorer for North Korea with 40 goals and the most prolific female footballer ever from North Korea with 165 goals. She also won the title of People's Athlete in 2003.

Club career Ri Kum-suk began her international career at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup at age 20. She played as a midfielder during three matches, supporting their young and talented striker Jin Pyol-hui.

In 4 years, the PRK Women's National Team qualified for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup and Ri teamed again with her friend Jin. In a winning match 3-0 over Nigeria she took 5 shots and 2 shots on goal. Even though, her team could not proceed to the quarterfinals, she played very well in last two games against Sweden and United States, with 6 Shots and 1 SOG.

The 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup was her best tournament. The team qualified for the finals by taking 3rd place in 2006 AFC Women's Championship due to referee judgement during the game against China. Her team belonged to Group B with United States, Sweden and Nigeria.

At their first game, against USA, and with the injury of key midfielder Ho Sun-hui at 10 minutes in the first half, they conceded a goal 50 minutes, but scored at 58 and 62 minutes. At 69 minutes the USA scored again. Ri scored in the next game against Nigeria with a head shot and the team played well enough against Sweden to get out of the group stage.

The most game she showed her strike and dribble skill was against China PR in the 15th Doha Asian Games, when the two teams tied after 90 minutes. Ri Kum-suk scored a goal in the 2nd extra time, by striking a powerful shot with her left foot.

Ri pulled a hat-trick sending DPRK into the final of the AFC Women's Asian Cup after they defeated Australia 3–0 at Thong Nat Stadium in the 2007 AFC Women's Asian Cup.

Ri also played for DPRK at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

She is the captain of the national team. Recently she retired to start a coaching career. She married Pak Chung Hyok(student of ), coach of the women's football team of the Jebi Sports Team, in November 2008, and gave birth to a son.

International goals No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1. 10 December 2001 New Taipei City, Taiwan 1–0 1–0 2001 AFC Women's Championship 2. 16 December 2001 1–0 2–0 3. 11 October 2002 Changwon, South Korea 3–0 4–0 2002 Asian Games 4. 10 June 2003 Bangkok, Thailand 2–0 13–0 2003 AFC Women's Championship 5. 6–0 6. 7–0 7. 8–0 8. 10–0 9. 11–0 10. 12 June 2003 4–0 14–0 11. 5–0 12. 7–0 13. 11–0 14. 14 June 2003 3–0 16–0 15. 19 June 2003 1–0 3–0 16. 2–0 17. 21 June 2003 1–0 2–1 18. 2–1 19. 24 February 2004 Brisbane, Australia 1–0 11–0 2004 Australia Cup 20. 18 April 2004 Hiroshima, Japan 1–0 4–0 2004 Summer Olympics qualification 21. 4–0 22. 20 April 2004 4–0 9–0 23. 5–0 24. 9–0 25. 22 April 2004 3–0 8–0 26. 4–0 27. 26 April 2004 2–0 5–1 28. 18 July 2006 Adelaide, Australia 1–0 9–0 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup 29. 3–0 30. 30 November 2006 Doha, Qatar 4–0 5–0 2006 Asian Games 31. 7 December 2006 Al-Rayyan, Qatar 1–0 4–1 32. 3–0 33. 10 December 2006 Doha, Qatar 2–1 3–1 34. 3 June 2007 Pyongyang, North Korea 1–0 2–0 2008 Summer Olympics qualification 35. 2–0 36. 10 June 2007 Coffs Harbour, Australia 1–0 2–0 37. 14 September 2007 Chengdu, China 2–0 2–0 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup 38. 18 February 2008 Chongqing, China 1–1 2–3 2008 EAFF Women's Football Championship 39. 24 February 2008 3–0 4–0 40. 28 May 2008 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2–0 5–0 2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup 41. 30 May 2008 2–0 3–0 42. 3–0 43. 5 June 2008 1–0 3–0 44. 2–0 45. 3–0 46. 8 June 2008 1–1 2–1 47. 9 August 2008 Shenyang, China 1–2 1–2 2008 Summer Olympics