The Korean national table tennis team coached by former table tennis stars Coach Oh Sang-yun and Coach Shi Eun-mi will officially quench the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships. The men's and women's teams led by Coach Oh Sang-yun and Coach Seok Eun-mi will enter the Chungbuk Jincheon National Players Village at 5 p.m. on the 26th to prepare for the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships (individual event) to be held in Doha, Qatar from May 17 to 25.

Head coach of the Korean table tennis men's and women's national teams, Oh Sang-yun (left) and Seok Eun-mi

The target of entering the village is 20 men and 20 women from each team, a total of 40 people. In January this year, the Korean Table Tennis Association selected 10 national representatives recognized by the Korean Sports Association and 10 national representatives operated by the Table Tennis Association after three national representative selection competitions. Three men and three women will be selected from the junior rankings, Ren Jong-hoon, who will enter the four-week military training for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games mixed doubles military service exception, and 32 people from Lee Do-eun, who was excluded from training due to injury, will start training at Jincheon Athletes' Village.

The Korean table tennis team's male and female signature players Jang Woo-jin and Shin Woo-bin will also re-enter the village after more than six months since last year's Paris Olympics. Zhang Yuzhen, Shin Yubin and the men's team Zhao Dacheng, Ahn Jae-hyun, Oh Jun-sung, and the women's team of Lee Eun-hye, Seo Hyo-won, Kim Na-young and other representative players participated in the Asian Cup, but because they were blocked by the Chinese wall, all of them did not cross the threshold of the top 16.

The first sister of the Korean table tennis team, Shin Yubin

In addition, Lee Seung-so, a 14-year-old men's hopeful, and Heo Ye-rim, a 15-year-old women's hopeful, who were selected as the national representatives for the operation of the Korea Table Tennis Association, will also train with their seniors at the players' village. The national team will improve its level through high-intensity training during the arrival in the village, and prepare for the Chinese team to challenge the Chinese team again at the World Championships in May. Wu Sang-yun, head coach of the South Korean table tennis men's team, told Korean media on the 25th: "With the goal of this year's World Championships, we will arrange a lot of training time and training volume while improving the physical strength and skills of the players." ”

The head coach of the women's team, Shi Eun-mi, also said: "Because many players enter the village at the same time, we run the team in order to achieve harmony between the old and the new and create a synergistic effect. ”

Lee Seung-so at the 2024 World Junior Championships

As a precursor to the World Championships, the South Korean national team will send players to the 2025 WTT Star Challenge Chennai in Chennai, India, from March 25 to 30. Subsequently, the national team will also participate in the Incheon leg of the 2025 WTT Championship to be held in Incheon from April 1 to 6.