South Korean media said on the 8th that the "world's strongest" South Korean short track speed skating team broke through the strong containment of the host China and won 4 golds, 2 silvers and 3 bronzes in the short track speed skating of the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games held on the 8th. In all nine events of short track speed skating, the Korean team is aiming for more than six gold medals, and the results on the 8th gave the green light to achieve the goal.

On the 8th, in the Asian Winter Games short track speed skating mixed 2000-meter relay final, the gold medalists Kumquat ri, Park Ji-won and Kim Tae-sung were very happy holding the Taiji flag

Hindering the South Korean short track speed skating team from winning gold medals in five events on the 8th was China's Lim Hyo-jun (South Korean name Lin Hyo-jun), who served as South Korea's representative and was naturalized to China in 2020. Lin Xiaojun won the men's 500m race on the same day, bringing the first gold medal in short track speed skating to the Chinese team in this Asian Winter Games. The South Korean men's team Park Ji-won, the women's team Choi Min-jung and Kumquat Li all won two golds on the same day and won the double championship together.

South Korea won the gold medal in the mixed 2000m relay final, the first event of the medal competition. The South Korean team composed of Park Ji-won, Kim Tae-sung, Choi Min-jung, and Kumquat Ri defeated Kazakhstan and Japan in the short track speed skating mixed 2000-meter relay final held at the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center Complex in Harbin on the 8th with a time of 2:41.534. Kim Jianyu, Zhang Chengyu, Shen Shixi, and Lu Daoxi, who participated in the preliminaries, also won gold medals.

On the 8th, in the women's 1500m short track speed skating final of the Asian Winter Games, Kumquat Li was very happy after winning the gold medal. On the right is Cui Minjing

South Korea came in second place after China, and with two laps left at the finish line, China's last runner, Lim Hyo-jun, fell alone, and South Korea took the opportunity to jump to the top of the standings. South Korea's last runner, Park Ji-won, finally calmly crossed the finish line first. In the women's 1500m final that followed, Kumquat Li defeated Chinese players Gong Li (2:23.884) and Zang Yize (2:23.965) with a time of 2:23.781 to win the gold medal. Choi Minjing and Shen Shixi, who participated in the finals together, ranked 4th and 5th.

With four laps left on the finish line, Kumquat Li came to the outside lane and tried to turn defeat into victory, but the top-ranked Chinese athlete Yang Jingru fell, and Kumquat Li took advantage of the situation to move to the lead position. Kumquat then picked up her pace, shook off the Chinese race's pursuit, and crossed the finish line first. The Korean short track speed skating team won the women's 1500m Asian Winter Games for six consecutive championships since the 1999 Gangwon Asian Winter Games.

On the 8th, in the men's 1500m short track speed skating final of the Asian Winter Games, Park Ji-won was crossing the finish line. On the left is China's Lin Xiaojun

In the men's 1500m final, Park Ji-won defeated China's Lin Xiaojun (2:16.956) with a time of 2:16.927 to win the gold medal. Jang Sung-woo, who also competed, won the bronze medal in 2:17.057, and Kim Jian-woo finished fourth. Park Ji-won took the lead early in the race and dominated the development of the game. In the process of maintaining the first place, he resisted Lin Xiaojun's attempt to overtake the inside lane on the last lap and crossed the finish line first.

In the women's 500m race, which is considered to be the weakest event in South Korea, three Korean women won gold, silver and bronze medals. Choi Min-jung won the championship in 43.016 seconds, followed by Kumquat Li (43.105 seconds) and Lee So-yeon (43.203 seconds). Choi Min-jung set a meaningful record for South Korea to win the women's 500m short track speed skating title at the Asian Winter Games for the first time. In the women's 500m, from the second Asian Winter Games held in Sapporo in 1990 to the 2017 Sapporo Asian Winter Games, the Chinese team once won seven consecutive gold medals. Conversely, the best result for a South Korean woman in the 500m at the Asian Winter Games was Choi Min-kyung's silver medal at the 1999 Asian Winter Games in Gangwon-do.

In the men's 500m final, Park Ji-won and Jang Sung-woo won the silver and bronze medals respectively after the second restart. The championship was won by China's Lin Xiaojun.

On the 8th, in the men's 500m short track speed skating final of the Asian Winter Games, Lin Hyojun, who won the gold medal, was receiving congratulations from Park Ji-won and Jang Sung-woo.

The Korean short track speed skating team will challenge for the gold medals in the men's and women's 1000m and men's and women's relay events at the same venue on the 9th.