On the 7th, the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games will officially kick off the gorgeous curtain. The opening ceremony will be held at 8 p.m. Beijing time at the Harbin International Convention and Exhibition Sports Center in China. A total of 222 players (148 players, 52 tournament managers, and 22 headquarters managers) from the Korean Legion will participate in the tournament, and at the opening ceremony, ice hockey player Lee Congmin and curling player Kim Eun-ji will serve as flag bearers, and the Korean Legion will be the 13th of the 34 participating countries (regions) to enter the tournament.
On the afternoon of the 5th, the players of the South Korean short track speed skating team posed in a V-shape with their hands to the camera during the official training held in the comprehensive hall of the Heilongjiang Ice Training Center.
Before the opening ceremony, some of the events of this year's Asian Winter Games will also be competed. Although there is no medal competition, the "world's strongest" Korean short track speed skating will announce its attack. Starting from the women's 1500m quarterfinals at 9 a.m. on the 7th, the first day of short track speed skating will be held in the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center Complex in Harbin. The men's 1500m quarterfinals, men's and women's 500m heats, men's and women's 1000m heats, and mixed 2000m relay semifinals will also be held one after another.
The South Korean short track speed skating team will participate in the individual event in the men's team Park Ji-won, Jang Sung-woo, Kim Jian-woo, and women's team Kim Ju-ri, Choi Min-jung and Shim Seok-hee. However, Kim Jian-woo and Shim Seok-hee will focus on the main events of the 1000m and 1500m and relay races, and will not participate in the 500m race, and Kim Tae-sung and Lee So-yeon will attack on their behalf.
In the mixed 2000m relay, Park Ji-won, Jang Sung-woo, Kim Keon-woo, Kim Tae-sung, Kim Jut-ri, Choi Min-jeong, Shim Seok-hee, and Roh Do-hee will cooperate to attack. The ice hockey match on the 7th will be played between Korea and Japan. The South Korean men's ice hockey team led by coach Kim Woo-jae will play the third game of Group A of the group stage against Japan at the Harbin Sports University Ice Rink at 12:30 p.m. The South Korean men's ice hockey team won the first game against the home team China on the 4th, and won 6-5 in overtime, and won the second game with Chinese Taipei on the 5th 14-1, and the South Korean team will lock in the group stage for three consecutive victories in this game.