On the 11th, when the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games enter the middle of the year, the figure skating competition will kick off. At 2 p.m., starting with the ice dance, the pairs skating and men's single short program will be held at the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center Complex in Harbin.

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South Korea has two men and two women in the singles skating competition. Men's singles skaters Cha Jun-hwan and Kim Hyun-khyun will perform the short program at 5 p.m. that day. Cha Junhuan, a men's singles player who participated in the 2018 Pyeongchang and Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, performed for the first time at the Asian Winter Games and attracted much attention. At the Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics, Cha Jun-hwan is aiming for South Korea's first Asian Winter Games medal in men's figure skating.

South Korea won the gold medal in women's singles skating at the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo (Choi Do-bin), the bronze medal in ice dance at the 1999 Asian Winter Games in Gangwon Province (Yang Tae-hwa-Lee Tianjun), and the bronze medal in women's singles at the 2011 Asian Winter Games in Astana-Almaty (Kwak Min-jung).

In the middle of last month, Cha Junhuan entered Harbin after winning a bronze medal at the 2025 Winter Universiade in Turin. In the short program, Cha Jun-hwan will perform with the rock group Natural. North Koreans, who fielded three people in figure skating alone, will also compete in the first competition on the same day. Roh will compete in the men's singles, while Sapporo 2017 Asian Winter Games pairs bronze medallists Lim Daeok-Han Kim Chul will also compete in the short program on the day.

The Korean speed skating team will compete in the final competition of the tournament. The oval field of the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center will hold the men's and women's 1,000m and men's team pursuit from 12 noon. In the women's 100m and 500m speed skating competitions, Kim Min-sun, the "queen of speed skating", and Lee Na-hyun, the "rising star", will compete in the women's 1000m. South Korea's ice legend Lee Seung-hoon participated in the men's team pursuit with Jung Jae-won and Park Sang-yan, which also attracted much attention.