In the snow events of the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games, a group of energetic teenagers in their teens took the lead in winning medals for the Korean delegation. Lee Seung-hoon, born in 2005, was the first to win the gold medal in the men's freestyle skiing halfpipe competition.

Lee Seung-hoon, born in 2005, was the first to win the gold medal in the men's freestyle skiing halfpipe competition

Freestyle skiing is a sport in which you can ski on a variety of courses and compete in aerial skills. The halfpipe technique is an event in which the judges score and rank the competitors based on their aerial performances such as spinning and jumping on a sloping semi-cylindrical slope.

Lee Seung-hoon is the first South Korean athlete to reach the podium in the Asian Winter Games freestyle skiing competition. He is determined to use the Asian Winter Games as a springboard for the first time for South Korea to compete in the freestyle skiing halfpipe final at Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026 a year later.

Kim Kun-hee (left), who won the gold medal in the men's snowboard halfpipe competition at the Asian Winter Games, and Lee Chao-eun took a group photo at Yabuli Ski Resort on the 13th

Born in 2006, the snowboarder Li Chaoen also launched his golden acting skills at this Asian Winter Games. Li Chaoen won the men's snowboard halfpipe at the 2023 International Ski Federation (FIS) World Championships with the youngest record (16 years and 10 months) in history. Li Chaoen, who only wanted to participate in the halfpipe competition, applied to participate in the men's slopestyle competition before the start of the Asian Winter Games, and finally showed a difficult technique and calmly won the championship.

On the 13th, Li Chaoen's dream of challenging the double title of this Asian Winter Games in the men's halfpipe venue skills final was blown away by a strong wind. Due to the sudden change in weather, the final was canceled, and the results of the preliminaries directly calculated the final ranking, and Li Chaoen, who ranked 6th in the preliminaries of the event, ended the journey of this Asian Winter Games with some regret. Born in 2008 and only 16 years old, Kim Kun-hee won the gold medal with 78 points in the preliminaries. So far, Kim Kun-hee has decorated his first medal in the international multi-sport competition with gold. Another 16-year-old South Korean youngster, Lee Ji-woo, who finished third in the qualifiers the day before, won the bronze medal in the event, and his peers born in 2008 both stood on the podium.

18-year-old snowboarding star Kang Dong-hoon

18-year-old snowboarding star Kang Dongxun won two bronze medals on the stage of the first Asian Winter Games. Kang Dong-hoon won the bronze medal in the snowboard men's slopestyle competition, and he was on the podium with Lee Chao-eun, and he also finished third in the snowboard men's big air competition on the 10th, winning multiple medals.

In the men's freestyle skiing big air, the South Korean duo Yoon Jong-hyun (19) and Shin Young-sub (19), born in 2005, won silver and bronze medals, respectively. Thanks to the outstanding performance of the athletes in their teens, South Korea won two of the six gold medals in snowboarding at this Asian Winter Games. China took 3 of them, and the remaining one went to Japan.

South Korea's women's biathlon team

Although not a "10-something" athlete, the medal parade of the Korean women's biathlon team, led by naturalized Russian athlete Avakumova, was also very eye-catching. In the women's 7.5km sprint, Avakumova won the first Asian Winter Games gold medal in the history of Korean biathlon, and then she helped the Korean team to a silver medal in the women's biathlon 4×6km relay.

Avakumova became the first South Korean athlete to win multiple medals in biathlon at the Asian Winter Games. In addition, this is the first time in 26 years that Korean biathlon has won two or more medals at the Asian Winter Games since the 1999 Asian Winter Games in Gangwon Province (two bronze medals).

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

South Korea curling ended with 1 gold and 2 silver, becoming the biggest winner in the curling field of this Asian Winter Games. The Korean women's curling team composed of Kim Eun-ji, Kim Min-ji, Kim so-ji, Xue Yi-eun and Xue Yi-ji won a wave of 10 games from the preliminaries to the finals, drawing a successful end to the gold medal.

The South Korean men's curling team lost to the Philippines, a naturalized Swiss team, in the final, leaving tears of regret. The curling mixed duo Kim Kyung-ae/Sung Ji-hoon won the precious silver medal despite losing to Japan in the final.

The Korean men's ice hockey team lost the semi-final against Japan on penalties, and although they failed to achieve their dream of the first gold medal in history, they made a thrilling comeback against China in the bronze medal match and reached the podium.