South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Not to be confused with Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Flag of South Korea
IOC code	KOR
NOC	Korean Olympic Committee
Website	www.sports.or.kr  (in Korean)
in Pyeongchang, South Korea February 9–25, 2018
Competitors	122 [a] in 15 sports
Flag bearers	None (opening) [b] [1] and Lee Seung-hoon (closing) [2]
Medals Ranked 7th	Gold 5 Silver 8 Bronze 4 Total 17
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Korea (2018)

South Korea competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, from 9 to 25 February 2018, as the host nation. It was represented by 122 competitors ^[a] in all 15 disciplines (15 sports).

In January 2018, following inter-governmental talks, the teams representing South Korea and North Korea entered the Opening Ceremony marching under the Korean Unification Flag, while in women's ice hockey there was a single united Korean team. ^[3]

South Korea won a total of seventeen medals – five gold, eight silver and four bronze – making these Games the most successful in South Korea's history in terms of total medals won, and earning the country 7th place in the overall medal table. Thirteen of the medals were won in long-track and short-track speed skating events. For the first time in their history, South Korean athletes also won medals in sliding sports (bobsleigh and skeleton), in a team event (curling) and in a snow event (snowboarding).

Medalists

Further information: 2018 Winter Olympics medal table

The following South Korean competitors won medals at the Games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Lim Hyo-jun Short track speed skating Men's 1500 metres 10 February  Gold Yun Sung-bin Skeleton Men's 16 February  Gold Choi Min-jeong Short track speed skating Women's 1500 metres 17 February  Gold Choi Min-jeong Kim A-lang Kim Ye-jin Lee Yu-bin Shim Suk-hee Short track speed skating Women's 3000 metre relay 20 February  Gold Lee Seung-hoon Speed skating Men's mass start 24 February  Silver Lee Sang-hwa Speed skating Women's 500 metres 18 February  Silver Cha Min-kyu Speed skating Men's 500 metres 19 February  Silver Lee Seung-hoon Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok Speed skating Men's team pursuit 21 February  Silver Hwang Dae-heon Short track speed skating Men's 500 metres 22 February  Silver Lee Sang-ho Snowboarding Men's parallel giant slalom 24 February  Silver Kim Bo-reum Speed skating Women's mass start 24 February  Silver Kim Eun-jung Kim Kyeong-ae Kim Seon-yeong Kim Yeong-mi Kim Cho-hi Curling Women's tournament 25 February  Silver Jun Jung-lin Kim Dong-hyun Seo Young-woo Won Yun-jong Bobsleigh Four-man 25 February  Bronze Kim Min-seok Speed skating Men's 1500 metres 13 February  Bronze Seo Yi-ra Short track speed skating Men's 1000 metres 17 February  Bronze Lim Hyo-jun Short track speed skating Men's 500 metres 22 February  Bronze Kim Tae-yun Speed skating Men's 1000 metres 23 February

Medals by sport Sport Total Short track speed skating 3 1 2 6 Speed skating 1 4 2 7 Skeleton 1 0 0 1 Bobsleigh 0 1 0 1 Curling 0 1 0 1 Snowboarding 0 1 0 1 Total 5 8 4 17 Medals by date Day Date Total Day 1 10 February 1 0 0 1 Day 2 11 February 0 0 0 0 Day 3 12 February 0 0 0 0 Day 4 13 February 0 0 1 1 Day 5 14 February 0 0 0 0 Day 6 15 February 0 0 0 0 Day 7 16 February 1 0 0 1 Day 8 17 February 1 0 1 2 Day 9 18 February 0 1 0 1 Day 10 19 February 0 1 0 1 Day 11 20 February 1 0 0 1 Day 12 21 February 0 1 0 1 Day 13 22 February 0 1 1 2 Day 14 23 February 0 0 1 1 Day 15 24 February 1 2 0 3 Day 16 25 February 0 2 0 2 Total 5 8 4 17 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 3 5 4 12 Female 2 3 0 5 Total 5 8 4 17

Records

Sport	Event	Date	Round	Athlete	Time	Record	Ref
Short track speed skating	Men's 1500 metres	10 February	Final A	Lim Hyo-jun	2:10.485	OR	[4]
	Men's 5000 metre relay	13 February	Semifinal 2	Hwang Dae-heon Kim Do-kyoum Kwak Yoon-gy Lim Hyo-jun	6:34.510	OR	[5]
	Women's 500 metres	10 February	Heat 8	Choi Min-jeong	42.870	OR	[6]
		13 February	Semifinal 1	Choi Min-jeong	42.422	OR	[7]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline. ^[8]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	2	2	4
Biathlon	1	5	6
Bobsleigh	4	2	6
Cross-country skiing	2	2	4
Curling	6	6	12
Figure skating	3	4	7
Freestyle skiing	4	5	9
Ice hockey	25	0$	48
Luge	3	2	5
Nordic combined	1	0	1
Short track speed skating	5	5	10
Skeleton	2	1	3
Ski jumping	4	1	5
Snowboarding	7	3	10
Speed skating	9	7	16
Total	78	45	123

^$Additionally, 23 athletes of the women's ice hockey team formed part of a unified Korea women's team which competed under a different country code (COR). ^[9]

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics

South Korea qualified a total of two male and two female athletes for alpine skiing.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jung Dong-hyun	Men's giant slalom	DNF
	Men's slalom	51.79	31	53.28	28	1:45.07	27
Kim Dong-woo	Men's downhill	—				1:47.99	48
	Men's super-G	—				1:31.64	44
	Men's combined	1:24.02	56	53.02	31	2:17.04	33
	Men's giant slalom	1:14.49	43	1:15.56	41	2:30.05	39
	Men's slalom	DNF
Gim So-hui	Women's giant slalom	1:19.13	48	1:16.24	45	2:35.37	45
	Women's slalom	DNF
Kang Young-seo	Women's giant slalom	1:19.67	50	1:17.39	48	2:37.06	47
	Women's slalom	DNF

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jung Dong-hyun Kim Dong-woo Gim So-hui Kang Young-seo	Team	Austria  (AUT) L 0–4	did not advance

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Based on their Nations Cup ranking in the 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup, South Korea qualified five women and received one men spot. ^[10]

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Timofey Lapshin	Men's sprint	24:22.6	1 (0+1)	16
	Men's pursuit	35:50.7	4 (1+0+2+1)	22
	Men's individual	50:28.6	1 (0+1+0+0)	20
	Men's mass start	38:07.4	1 (0+1+0+0)	25
Ekaterina Avvakumova	Women's sprint	26:24.9	6 (3+3)	87
	Women's individual	44:25.3	1 (0+0+1+0)	16
Anna Frolina	Women's sprint	22:56.9	3 (2+1)	32
	Women's pursuit	36:14.2	8 (1+2+2+3)	50
	Women's individual	47:50.4	5 (1+0+1+3)	61
Jung Ju-mi	Women's individual	53:32.8	6 (2+2+0+2)	86
Ko Eun-jung	Women's sprint	25:12.1	2 (1+1)	78
Mun Ji-hee	Women's sprint	25:26.6	6 (2+4)	82
	Women's individual	50:21.5	7 (0+3+2+2)	78
Ekaterina Avvakumova Anna Frolina Ko Eun-jung Mun Ji-hee	Women's team relay	1:20:20.6	22 (5+17)	18

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Based on their rankings in the 2017–18 Bobsleigh World Cup, South Korea qualified three sleds. ^{[11] [12] [13]}

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Won Yun-jong* Seo Young-woo	Two-man	49.50	11	49.39	4	49.15	5	49.36	5	3:17.40	6
Jun Jung-lin Kim Dong-hyun Seo Young-woo Won Yun-jong *	Four-man	48.65	2	49.19	4	48.89	3	49.65	10	3:16.38
Kim Min-seong Kim Yoo-ran*	Two-woman	51.24	=15	51.20	12	51.32	13	51.55	17	3:25.31	15

* Denotes the driver of each sled

Cross-country skiing

Main article: cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics

South Korea qualified a total of two male and two female athletes for cross-country skiing.

Distance

Athlete	Event	Classical		Freestyle		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Deficit	Rank
Kim Eun-ho	Men's 15 km freestyle	—				39:07.9	+5:24.0	85
	Men's 30 km skiathlon	48:29.9	66	LAP
	Men's 50 km classical	—				LAP
Kim Magnus	Men's 15 km freestyle	—				36:39.0	+2:55.1	45
	Men's 50 km classical	—				2:24:14.0	+15:51.9	47
Ju Hye-ri	Women's 10 km freestyle	—				31:27.1	+6:26.6	79
Lee Chae-won	Women's 10 km freestyle	—				28:37.5	+3:37.0	51
	Women's 15 km skiathlon	25:05.5	59	21:06.8	42	46:44.5	+5:59.6	57

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Magnus	Men's sprint	3:22.36	49	did not advance
Kim Eun-ho Kim Magnus	Men's team sprint	—				17:56.71	13	did not advance
Ju Hye-ri	Women's sprint	4:11.92	67	did not advance
Ju Hye-ri Lee Chae-won	Women's team sprint	—				19:19.17	11	did not advance

Curling

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics

South Korea qualified their men's team (five athletes), their women's team (five athletes), and their mixed doubles team (two athletes). ^[14]

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage										Tiebreaker	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kim Chang-min Seong Se-hyeon Oh Eun-su Lee Ki-bok Kim Min-chan	Men's tournament	USA L 7–11	SWE L 2–7	NOR L 5–7	CAN L 6–7	GBR W 11–5	DEN L 8–9	ITA W 8–6	SUI W 8–7	JPN W 10–4	7	did not advance
Kim Eun-jung Kim Kyeong-ae Kim Seon-yeong Kim Yeong-mi Kim Cho-hi	Women's tournament	CAN W 8–6	JPN L 5–7	SUI W 7–5	GBR W 7–4	CHN W 12–5	SWE W 7–6	USA W 9–6	OAR W 11–2	DEN W 9–3	1 Q	BYE	JPN W 8–7	SWE L 3–8
Jang Hye-ji Lee Ki-jeong	Mixed doubles	FIN W 9-4	CHN L 7-8	NOR L 3-8	USA W 9-1	OAR L 5-6	SUI L 4-6	CAN L 3-7	—		5	did not advance

Men's tournament

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament

South Korea qualified a men's team as the host country.

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Sweden	Niklas Edin	9	7	2	62	43	34	28	13	8	87%	Playoffs
Canada	Kevin Koe	9	6	3	56	46	36	34	14	8	87%
United States	John Shuster	9	5	4	67	63	37	39	4	6	80%
Great Britain	Kyle Smith	9	5	4	55	60	40	37	8	7	82%	Tiebreaker
Switzerland	Peter de Cruz	9	5	4	60	55	39	37	10	6	83%
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	9	4	5	52	56	34	39	7	8	82%
South Korea	Kim Chang-min	9	4	5	65	63	39	39	8	8	82%
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	9	4	5	48	56	33	35	13	5	81%
Italy	Joël Retornaz	9	3	6	50	56	37	38	15	7	81%
Denmark	Rasmus Stjerne	9	2	7	53	70	36	39	12	5	83%

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Round-robin

South Korea had a bye in draws 3, 7 and 11.

Draw 1

Wednesday, 14 February, 09:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	X	7
United States (Shuster)	2	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	1	X	11

Draw 2

Wednesday, 14 February, 20:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	2
Sweden (Edin)	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	X	7

Draw 4

Friday, 16 February, 09:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	7
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	5

Draw 5

Friday, 16 February, 20:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Koe)	0	0	3	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	7
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	6

Draw 6

Saturday, 17 February, 14:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	1	0	2	2	0	3	1	X	11
Great Britain (Smith)	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	X	5

Draw 8

Sunday, 18 February, 20:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	9
South Korea (Kim)	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	2	0	8

Draw 9

Monday, 19 February, 14:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Retornaz)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	6
South Korea (Kim)	3	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	8

Draw 10

Tuesday, 20 February, 09:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	8
Switzerland (de Cruz)	1	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	7

Draw 12

Wednesday, 21 February, 14:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	2	0	0	4	0	3	X	X	10
Japan (Morozumi)	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	X	4

Women's tournament

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament

South Korea qualified a women's team as the host country.

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
South Korea	Kim Eun-jung	9	8	1	75	44	41	34	5	15	79%	Playoffs
Sweden	Anna Hasselborg	9	7	2	64	48	42	34	14	13	83%
Great Britain	Eve Muirhead	9	6	3	61	56	39	38	12	6	79%
Japan	Satsuki Fujisawa	9	5	4	59	55	38	36	10	13	75%
China	Wang Bingyu	9	4	5	57	65	35	38	12	5	78%
Canada	Rachel Homan	9	4	5	68	59	40	36	10	12	81%
Switzerland	Silvana Tirinzoni	9	4	5	60	55	34	37	12	7	78%
United States	Nina Roth	9	4	5	56	65	38	39	7	6	78%
Olympic Athletes from Russia	Victoria Moiseeva	9	2	7	45	76	34	40	8	6	76%
Denmark	Madeleine Dupont	9	1	8	50	72	32	41	10	6	73%

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Round-robin

South Korea had a bye in draws 1, 5 and 9.

Draw 2

Thursday, 15 February, 09:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Homan)	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	6
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	3	0	8

Draw 3

Thursday, 15 February, 20:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	5
Japan (Fujisawa)	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	7

Draw 4

Friday, 16 February, 14:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	7
Switzerland (Tirinzoni)	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	5

Draw 6

Saturday, 17 February, 20:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	1	7
Great Britain (Muirhead)	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	4

Draw 7

Sunday, 18 February, 14:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	X	X	5
South Korea (Kim)	3	0	3	0	4	0	0	2	X	X	12

Draw 8

Monday, 19 February, 09:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Hasselborg)	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	6
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	7

Draw 10

Tuesday, 20 February, 14:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Roth)	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	6
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	1	4	0	1	0	2	X	9

Draw 11

Wednesday, 21 February, 09:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	3	3	3	0	2	0	X	X	X	X	11
Olympic Athletes from Russia (Moiseeva)	0	0	0	1	0	1	X	X	X	X	2

Draw 12

Wednesday, 21 February, 20:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	3	2	0	3	X	X	X	9
Denmark (Dupont)	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	3

Semifinal

Friday, 23 February, 20:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
South Korea (Kim)	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	8
Japan (Fujisawa)	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	7

Gold Medal Game

Sunday, 25 February, 09:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	3
Sweden (Hasselborg)	0	0	2	1	1	0	3	0	1	X	8

Mixed doubles

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Mixed doubles tournament

South Korea qualified a mixed doubles team as the host country.

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Athletes	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Canada	Kaitlyn Lawes / John Morris	7	6	1	52	26	28	20	0	9	80%	Playoffs
Switzerland	Jenny Perret / Martin Rios	7	5	2	45	40	29	26	0	10	71%
Olympic Athletes from Russia	Anastasia Bryzgalova / Alexander Krushelnitskiy	7	4	3	36	44	26	27	1	7	67%
Norway	Kristin Skaslien / Magnus Nedregotten	7	4	3	39	43	26	25	1	8	74%	Tiebreaker
China	Wang Rui / Ba Dexin	7	4	3	47	42	27	27	1	6	72%
South Korea	Jang Hye-ji / Lee Ki-jeong	7	2	5	40	40	23	29	1	7	67%
United States	Rebecca Hamilton / Matt Hamilton	7	2	5	37	43	26	25	0	9	74%
Finland	Oona Kauste / Tomi Rantamäki	7	1	6	35	53	23	29	0	6	67%

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Draw 1

Thursday, February 8, 9:05

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
South Korea (Jang / Lee)	3	1	1	0	0	0	4	X	9
Finland (Kauste / Rantamäki)	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	X	4

Draw 2

Thursday, February 8, 20:04

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
South Korea (Jang / Lee)	0	1	0	0	4	0	2	0	0	7
China (Wang / Ba)	2	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	8

Draw 3

Friday, February 9, 8:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
South Korea (Jang / Lee)	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	3
Norway (Skaslien / Nedregotten)	1	3	1	0	1	0	2	X	8

Draw 4

Friday, February 9, 13:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States (R. Hamilton / M. Hamilton)	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	1
South Korea (Jang / Lee)	2	0	2	3	1	1	X	X	9

Draw 5

Saturday, February 10, 9:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
South Korea (Jang / Lee)	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	5
Olympic Athletes from Russia (Bryzgalova / Krushelnitskiy)	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	6

Draw 6

Saturday, February 10, 20:04

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Switzerland (Perret / Rios)	2	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	6
South Korea (Jang / Lee)	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	4

Draw 7

Sunday, February 11, 9:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Lawes / Morris)	1	1	0	2	1	0	2	X	7
South Korea (Jang / Lee)	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	3

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

South Korea qualified two female figure skaters, based on its placement at the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki, Finland. ^[15] They additionally qualified one male figure skater as well as an entry in ice dancing through the 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. As hosts, they were given a quota to compete in the pairs event. ^[16]

Athlete	Event	SP / SD		FS / FD		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Cha Jun-hwan	Men's singles	83.43	16 Q	165.16	14	248.59	15
Choi Da-bin	Ladies' singles	67.77	8 Q	131.49	8	199.26	7
Kim Ha-nul		54.33	21 Q	121.38	10	175.71	13
Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kang-chan Kam	Pairs	42.93	22	did not advance
Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin	Ice dancing	61.22	16 Q	86.52	19	147.74	18

Team event

Athlete	Event	Short program/Short dance						Free skate/Free dance
		Men's	Ladies'	Pairs	Ice dance	Total		Men's	Ladies'	Pairs	Ice dance	Total
		Points Team points	Points Team points	Points Team points	Points Team points	Points	Rank	Points Team points	Points Team points	Points Team points	Points Team points	Points	Rank
Cha Jun-hwan (M) Choi Da-bin (L) Kim Kyu-eun / Alex Kam (P) Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin (ID)	Team event	77.70 5	65.73 5	52.10 1	51.97 2	13	9	Did Not Advance

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Aerials

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Jump 1		Jump 2		Jump 1		Jump 2		Jump 3
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Kim Kyoung-eun	Women's aerials	35.67	25	44.20	19	did not advance

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Lee Kang-bok	Men's halfpipe	5.80	13.00	13.00	27	did not advance
Jang Yu-jin	Women's halfpipe	64.40	60.00	64.40	18	did not advance

Moguls

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Run 1				Run 2				Run 1				Run 2				Run 3
		Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank
Choi Jae-woo	Men's moguls	24.95	57.85	72.95	20	25.93	67.42	81.23	1 Q	24.86	63.04	78.26	10 Q	DNF				did not advance
Kim Ji-hyon		26.05	56.20	69.85	24	26.62	55.27	69.85	17	did not advance
Seo Myung-joon		25.02	53.44	68.45	26	25.41	65.02	69.51	18	did not advance
Seo Jee-won	Women's moguls	30.71	55.07	68.46	19	31.55	52.16	68.46	14	did not advance
Seo Jung-hwa		41.80	15.67	16.57	30	29.45	66.77	71.58	6 Q	29.77	67.86	72.31	14	did not advance

Slopestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Lee Mee-hyun	Women's slopestyle	46.80	72.80	72.80	13	did not advance

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Summary

Key:

• OT – Overtime
• GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout

Team	Event	Group Stage				Qualification playoff	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
South Korea men's	Men's tournament	Czech Republic L 1–2	Switzerland L 0–8	Canada L 0–4	4	Finland L 2–5	did not advance			12

Men's tournament

Main article: Ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament

South Korea men's national ice hockey team qualified as the host. ^[17]

Team roster

• Men's team event – 1 team of 25 players

Preliminary round

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	0	9	4	+5	8	Quarterfinals
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	0	11	4	+7	7
3	Switzerland	3	1	0	0	2	10	9	+1	3	Qualification playoffs
4	South Korea (H)	3	0	0	0	3	1	14	−13	0

Source: IIHF
(H) Host

15 February 2018 21:10

Czech Republic

2–1 (2–1, 0–0, 0–0)

South Korea

Gangneung Hockey Centre, Pyeongchang Attendance: 6,025

Game reference
	Pavel Francouz	Goalies	Matt Dalton	Referees: Mark Lemelin Linus Öhlund Linesmen: Henrik Pihlblad Sakari Suominen
	0–1 07:34 – Cho M. (Radunske, Swift) Kovář (Řepík, Sekáč) (PP) – 11:59 1–1 Řepík (Birner, Francouz) (SH) – 16:18 2–1
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	40	Shots	18

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17 February 2018 16:40

South Korea

0–8 (0–1, 0–2, 0–5)

Switzerland

Gangneung Hockey Centre, Pyeongchang Attendance: 6,568

Game reference
	Matt Dalton Park Sung-je	Goalies	Jonas Hiller	Referees: Jan Hribik Aleksi Rantala Linesmen: Miroslav Lhotský Fraser McIntyre
	0–1 10:23 – Hollenstein (Haas, Loeffel) 0–2 27:36 – Du Bois 0–3 35:55 – Suter (Herzog) 0–4 43:50 – Rüfenacht (Untersander, Almond) 0–5 45:17 – Suter (Ambühl, Moser) 0–6 46:45 – Schäppi (Almond, Geering) 0–7 51:24 – Suter (Geering, Ambühl) 0–8 55:10 – Corvi (Hofmann, Du Bois)
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	25	Shots	34

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18 February 2018 21:10

Canada

4–0 (1–0, 1–0, 2–0)

South Korea

Gangneung Hockey Centre, Gangneung Attendance: 6,038

Game reference
	Kevin Poulin	Goalies	Matt Dalton	Referees: Jozef Kubuš Daniel Stricker Linesmen: Nicolas Fluri Vít Lederer
	Thomas (Genoway, Wolski) – 07:36 1–0 O'Dell (Gragnani, Noreau) – 34:22 2–0 Lapierre (Roy) – 45:43 3–0 Brulé (Lee, Roy) (PP) – 58:02 4–0
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	49	Shots	19

Qualification playoff

20 February 2018 21:10

Finland

5–2 (1–0, 2–2, 2–0)

South Korea

Gangneung Hockey Centre, Pyeongchang Attendance: 5,409

Game reference
	Mikko Koskinen	Goalies	Matt Dalton	Referees: Roman Gofman Timothy Mayer Linesmen: Nicolas Fluri Gleb Lazarev
	Kontiola (Tolvanen, Kemppainen) (PP) – 04:42 1–0 Kontiola (Lepistö, Tolvanen) (PP) – 23:44 2–0 Heiskanen (Tolvanen) – 26:23 3–0 3–1 30:06 – Radunske (Regan, Kim S.) 3–2 32:09 – Ahn (Shin S-h) Hietanen (Osala, Savinainen) (PP) – 47:20 4–2 Manninen (Hietanen, Koskiranta) (ENG) – 59:53 5–2
	2 min	Penalties	8 min
	36	Shots	19

Women's tournament

Main articles: Ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament and Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics

South Korea women's national ice hockey team qualified as the host. In January 2018, it was announced that the South Korean team would be amalgamated with a group of North Korean players to form a single Korean team in the tournament. In this team, at least three North Korean players were selected for each game. ^[18]

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Based on the results from the World Cups during the 2017–18 Luge World Cup season, South Korea qualified four sleds. ^[19]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lim Nam-kyu	Men's singles	49.461	31	48.591	28	48.620	29	did not advance		2:26.672	30
Cho Jung-myung Park Jin-yong	Men's doubles	46.396	10	46.276	8	—				1:32.672	9
Aileen Frisch	Women's singles	46.350	5	46.456	9	46.751	13	46.843	11	3:06.400	8
Sung Eun-ryung		46.918	18	46.851	20	47.205	18	47.276	18	3:08.250	18

Mixed team relay

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Aileen Frisch Lim Nam-kyu Cho Jung-myung Park Jin-yong	Team relay	47.211	6	49.854	13	49.478	8	2:26.543	9

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping			Cross-country		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Park Je-un	Normal hill/10 km	86.0	73.3	42	27:07.5	47	30:56.5	46
	Large hill/10 km	104.5	60.4	48	26:14.8	45	31:28.8	47

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

According to the ISU Special Olympic Qualification Rankings, South Korea qualified a full squad of five men and five women each. ^[20]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hwang Dae-heon	500 m	40.758	1 Q	40.861	2 Q	40.108	1 FA	39.854
	1000 m	1:24.457	1 Q	PEN		did not advance
	1500 m	2:15.561	1 Q	—		2:11.469	2 FA	DNF	14
Lim Hyo-jun	500 m	40.418	1 Q	40.400	1 Q	40.132	2 FA	39.919
	1000 m	1:23.971	1 Q	1:24.095	1 Q	1:26.463	1 FA	1:33.312	4
	1500 m	2:13.891	1 Q	—		2:11.389	1 FA	2:10.485 OR
Seo Yi-ra	500 m	40.438	1 Q	1:17.779	4	did not advance
	1000 m	1:24.734	2 Q	1:24.053	1 Q	1:24.252	2 FA	1:31.619
	1500 m	2:18.750	1 Q	—		2:11.126	3 FB	2:26.346	9
Hwang Dae-heon Kim Do-kyoum Kwak Yoon-gy Lim Hyo-jun Seo Yi-ra	5000 m relay	—				6:34.510 OR	1 FA	6:42.118	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Choi Min-jeong	500 m	42.870 OR	1 Q	42.996	2 Q	42.442 OR	1 FA	PEN	6
	1000 m	1:31.190	1 Q	1:30.940	1 Q	1:31.131	3 AA	1:42.434	4
	1500 m	2:24.595	1 Q	—		2:22.295	1 FA	2:24.948
Kim A-lang	500 m	43.724	3	did not advance
	1000 m	1:30.459	1 Q	1:30.137	2 Q	1:29.212	3 FB	—	5
	1500 m	2:20.891	1 Q	—		2:22.691	1 FA	2:25.941	4
Shim Suk-hee	500 m	43.048	3	did not advance
	1000 m	1:34.940	1 Q	1:29.159	1 Q	1:30.974	2 FA	PEN	6
	1500 m	2:39.984	3	—		did not advance
Choi Min-jeong Kim A-lang Kim Ye-jin Lee Yu-bin Shim Suk-hee	3000 m relay	—				4:06.387 OR	1 FA	4:07.361

Key: AA – Advanced to medal round due to being impeded by another skater; ADV – Advanced due to being impeded by another skater; FA – Qualified to medal round; FB – Qualified to consolation round

Skeleton

Main article: Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Based on the world rankings, South Korea qualified three sleds. ^{[21] [22]}

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Ji-soo	Men's	50.80	4	50.86	6	50.51	4	50.81	6	3:22.98	6
Yun Sung-bin		50.28	1	50.07	1	50.18	1	50.02	1	3:20.55
Jeong Sophia	Women's	52.47	13	52.67	15	52.47	15	52.28	12	3:29.89	15

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Qualification			First round			Final			Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Choi Seo-u	Men's normal hill	89.0	94.7	39 Q	93.5	83.9	41	did not advance
	Men's large hill	114.5	73.5	46 Q	114.0	93.2	45	did not advance
Kim Hyun-ki	Men's normal hill	84.0	83.1	52	did not advance
	Men's large hill	101.5	46.4	55	did not advance
Kim Hyun-ki Park Je-un Choi Heung-chul Choi Seo-u	Men's team large hill	—			409.5	274.5	12	did not advance
Park Guy-lim	Women's normal hill	—			56.0	14.2	35	Did Not Advance

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Lee Min-sik	Men's big air	68.75	72.25	72.25	14	did not advance
	Men's slopestyle	DNS
Kim Ho-jun	Men's halfpipe	54.50	10.25	54.50	24	did not advance
Kweon Lee-jun		58.50	62.75	62.75	21	did not advance
Lee Kwang-ki		75.00	72.00	75.00	14	did not advance
Kwon Sun-oo	Women's halfpipe	19.25	35.00	35.00	20	did not advance

Parallel

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Choi Bo-gun	Men's giant slalom	1:26.78	26	did not advance
Kim Sang-kyum		1:25.88	15 Q	Košir  (SLO) L +1.14	did not advance
Lee Sang-ho		1:25.06	3 Q	Sarsembaev  (OAR) W –0.54	Karl  (AUT) W –0.94	Košir  (SLO) W –0.01	Galmarini  (SUI) L +0.43
Jeong Hae-rim	Women's giant slalom	1:34.11	20	did not advance
Shin Da-hae		1:36.04	25	did not advance

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
		Time	Rank
Cha Min-kyu	500 m	34.42
	1000 m	1:09.27	12
Chung Jae-woong	1000 m	1:09.43	13
Joo Hyong-jun	1500 m	1:46.65	17
Kim Jun-ho	500 m	35.01	12
Kim Min-seok	1500 m	1:44.93
Kim Tae-yun	1000 m	1:08.22
Lee Seung-hoon	5000 m	6:14.15	5
	10,000 m	12:55.54	4
Mo Tae-bum	500 m	35.154	16

Women

Athlete	Event	Race
		Time	Rank
Kim Bo-reum	3000 m	4:12.79	18
Kim Hyun-yung	500 m	38.251	12
	1000 m	1:16.366	18
Kim Min-sun	500 m	38.534	16
Lee Sang-hwa	500 m	37.33
Noh Seon-yeong	1500 m	1:58.75	14
Park Seung-hi	1000 m	1:16.11	16

Mass start

Athlete	Event	Semifinal			Final
		Points	Time	Rank	Points	Time	Rank
Chung Jae-won	Men's mass start	5	8:17.02	6 Q	1	8:32.71	8
Lee Seung-hoon		5	8:45.37	6 Q	60	7:43.97
Kim Bo-reum	Women's mass start	4	9:22.21	6 Q	40	8:32.99
Park Ji-woo		1	8:33.43	9	did not advance

Team pursuit

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Opposition Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok Lee Seung-hoon Joo Hyong-jun **	Men's team pursuit	Italy  (ITA) W 3:39.29	1 Q	New Zealand  (NZL) W 3:38.82	1 FA	Norway  (NOR) L 3:38.52
Kim Bo-reum Noh Seon-yeong Park Ji-woo Park Seung-hi **	Women's team pursuit	Netherlands  (NED) L 3:03.76	7 FD	did not advance		Poland  (POL) L 3:07.30	8

^**Did not play.

Notes

^a Park Je-un took part in two sports: nordic combined and ski jumping.

^bSouth Korea did not march at the Parade of Nations. Its delegates marched in the opening ceremony, together with North Korea's delegates, as a unified "Korea" team. South Korean bobsleigher Won Yun-jong along with North Korean ice hockey player Hwang Chung-gum were the flagbearers of this unified Korea team. ^[1]

See also

• South Korea at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
• North Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics
• Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics

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External links

• South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics