On the 9th, South Korea won four more gold medals and four silver medals, increasing the number of medals won after the opening of the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games to 11 gold, nine silver and seven bronze medals. South Korea is firmly in second place in the medal table after China, the host country, with 15 golds, 15 silvers and 14 bronzes.

On the 9th, in the men's and women's 1000m short track speed skating finals of the Asian Winter Games, Cui Minjing (left) and Zhang Chengyu, who won the gold medal respectively, wore Tai Chi flags and were very happy

The short track speed skating team, which swept 4 golds, 2 silvers and 3 bronzes the day before, added 2 golds and 2 silvers on the same day, ending the competition with 6 golds, 4 silvers and 3 bronzes. Cui Minjing, the "ace" of the women's team, topped the 1,000m final at the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center in Harbin, China, with a new Asian Winter Games record of 1:29.637. Choi Min-jeong won the gold medal for the third time after the short track speed skating mixed 2000m relay and the women's 500m, becoming the first triple crown champion of the Korean delegation in this competition.

Kim Jili, who won the women's 1500m race the day before, won the silver medal in the 1000m with a time of 1:29.739. In the men's 1000m, Jang Sung-woo surpassed national team predecessor Park Ji-won (1:28.829) to win the championship and won the second gold medal after the mixed relay.

However, the Korean short track speed skating team failed to win medals in the men's 5,000m relay and the women's 3,000m relay, which they were expecting to win at the same time. Among them, the South Korean men's team crossed the finish line in second place, but Park Ji-won was disqualified after being judged to have committed a foul during a physical altercation with China's Lin Hyo-jun, and the women's team also fell due to a clash between the last runner Kim Ji-ri and China's Gong Li, and only finished fourth.

On the 9th, in the men's 5,000-meter relay final of short track speed skating at the Asian Winter Games, South Korean athletes were judged to be disqualified and regretted that they could not win a medal.

Despite this, South Korea won six of the nine gold medals in the competition, equalling the record for the most gold medals at any Asian Winter Games, and signaling the prospects of Milan Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026.

The Korean ice team won two gold medals and one silver medal thanks to the outstanding performances of the women's sprint duo Kim Min-sun and Lee Na-hyun. Kim Min-sun won her first gold medal at the Asian Winter Games in the women's 500m in speed skating in 38.24 seconds, while Lee Na-hyun won silver in 38.33 seconds. In the women's sprint team pursuit, the duo teamed up with Kim Min-ji to finish the race in 1:28.62 and won the championship by 0.23 seconds ahead of the Chinese team (1:28.85). Kim Min-sun won two gold medals in just one day, and Lee Na-hyun also won the double title after the 100m the previous day.

On the 9th, Kim Min-ji, Kim Min-sun, and Lee Na-hyun, who participated in the women's sprint team pursuit at the Asian Winter Games, were galloping

In the men's 5,000m speed skating race, Lee Seung-hoon, who aims for three consecutive championships in the competition, finished fourth (6:32.43). South Korea's signature Alpine skier Chung Dong-hyun won the silver medal in second place behind Keiyuki Koyama (Japan, 1:28.12) in the men's slalom at Yabuli Ski Resort with a time of 1:29.09.

Jung Dong-hyun, the Sapporo 2017 Alpine skiing men's slalom champion, failed to retain his title, but increased his total medal count to four (two gold, one silver and one bronze) in Astana and Almaty 2011, including one gold and one bronze medal at the 2011 Asian Winter Games.

In the final match of the group stage against Kazakhstan, the Korean women's ice hockey team lost 0-1 to Kazakhstan after overtime (4 wins, 12 points) and entered the final round with the second place in the group (3 wins, 1 loss, 9 points). Women's ice hockey is determined by four countries: South Korea, Japan, China, and Kazakhstan.

On the 9th, in the Asian Winter Games curling women's round-robin match between the Korean team and the Japanese team, South Korean players Kim Eun-ji, Kim Min-ji, Kim so-ji, and Xue Ye-eun were talking

One of the favorites for the gold medal, the Korean women's curling team (consisting of Kim Eun-ji, Kim Min-ji, Kim so-ji, Xue Ye-eun, and Xue Yi-ji) defeated Chinese Taipei 11-0 and Japan 6-4 on the same day, happily starting the round-robin with two consecutive wins. The South Korean men's curling team (consisting of Lee Jae-beom, Kim Hyo-joon, Kim Eun-bin, Pyo Jong-min and Kim Jin-hoon) defeated the Philippines 6-1 in the first match of the round-robin tournament.

There are 6 major events, 11 sub-events and 64 sub-events in this Asian Winter Games, and 30 gold medals have been produced so far, accounting for nearly 47% of the total number of gold medals. In terms of medal tables, the top two teams in the rankings, China and South Korea, have left behind the other teams by a large margin, and the pattern of the medal table is becoming clearer. The Chinese team still holds many gold points in the five major events except ice hockey, and as long as it plays normally, it can firmly sit at the top of the medal table.

2025 Asian Winter Games Medal Table (as of 9th)

With the end of the gold medal in short track speed skating, the Korean team's subsequent gold medal momentum is expected to weaken, but it still has the strength to win the championship in snowboarding, freestyle skiing, speed skating, curling and other events. Yonhap News Agency said that the goal of the South Korean team in this Asian Winter Games is to follow the host China, and continue to rank second in the medal table after the last Asian Winter Games in Sapporo. Asia's traditional ice and snow powerhouses Kazakhstan and Japan won medals "sporadically" in the first two gold medal days, and then as their dominant events such as biathlon, ski mountaineering, figure skating, ice hockey and other events gradually produce gold medals, or will narrow the gold medal gap with the South Korean team.