South Korea's women's figure skating champion Kim Chae-yeon showed the emotion of the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games in Seoul. On the 21st local time, Kim Chae-yeon showed her perfect acting skills in the women's single short program of the 2025 International Skating Union (ISU) Four Continents Figure Skating Championships held at the Mokdong Ice Rink in Seoul, and finally won a technical score (TES) of 40.15 points, an artistic score (PCS) of 33.87 points, and a total score of 74.02 points, ranking first.

Kim Chae-yeon raised her hand after performing in the women's single short program at the 2025 International Skating Union (ISU) Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on the 21st

She also set a new record for her personal short program high of 71.39 at the ISU Four Continents Championships in November 2023. At the same time, it also surpassed the short program score set when he won the gold medal at the Asian Winter Games in Harbin (71.88 points, not recognized).

According to the schedule, Kim Chae-yeon will challenge for the championship in the women's singles free skate competition held at the same venue on the 23rd. In second place in the short program was last year's Four Continents champion and Japan's Hyakin Chiba, who scored 71.20 points, 2.82 points lower than Kim Chae-yeon.

Kim Chae-yeon lost to Chiba to win silver at last year's Four Continents Championships, but is one step ahead of the tournament this time. Third in the short program was Sarah Everhart of the United States with 67.36 points.

Kim Chae-yeon performs in the women's single short program at the 2025 International Skating Union (ISU) Four Continents Figure Skating Championships held at the Mokdong Ice Skating Rink in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul on the 21st

Kim Chae-yeon, who ranked 20th out of 21 contestants, began the performance with the soundtrack (OST) of the short program film "Tron: A New Beginning". She calmly and cleanly completed the first project, a double half-jump that went around two and a half laps, and scored a base score of 3.30 and a GoE score of 0.99. Then, she neatly completed the triple jump-triple jump combination and continued the performance smoothly. The triple jump in the final jump was also very clean, and he received a GOE bonus of 1.59 points.

Kim Chae-yeon performs in the women's single short program at the 2025 International Skating Union (ISU) Four Continents Figure Skating Championships held at the Mokdong Ice Skating Rink in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul on the 21st.

Kim Chae-yeon, who finished the short program, looked a little nervous, and while waiting for her score, her personal high appeared on the screen, and she clenched her fists and stood up happily. The other two Korean women's players in the competition, Yoon Ah-sun ranked 6th with 65.57 points, and Lee Hae-in ranked 10th with 60.77 points.