South Korean National Championships, 05–07 January 2018

-South Korean National Championships 2018


*Day1 Results, Protocols, and vids


*Day2 Results, Protocols, and vids


*Day3 Results, Protocols, and vids

-Day3 Broadcasted ver.


Olympic Representatives / Announcing vid


Victory ceremonies and gala exhibitions



-January 5th-7th
-Mokdong Ice Rink, Seoul, Korea
-Last rounds of three to select olympic representatives.
Link to first olympic trial threads is here, and the second one is here.
-Entries deadline was December 19th, and official practices are January 3-4th. (All official practices will be open to public.)

-There will be free cuts after short program,
1) if numbers of entered skaters are less than 49, then 24 skaters will be advanced in each segment.
2) if numbers of entered skaters are 49 and over, then 30 skaters will be advanced in each segment.

-Qualification for participation of this event: skaters should meets both age limits(born before 2005.07.01) and level limits(level 5~8/ level 5 is for skaters at least can do 2A, level 7 is for skaters who can do 4 kinds of different triple jumps)


-Segments: Ladies/Men/Pairs/Ice dance Group 1, 2
For Ladies and Men, Group 1 is skaters of level 7~8 and will perform Senior program. Group 2 is skaters of level 5~6 and will perform Junior program.
For Pairs and Ice dance, group 1 is Senior and 2 is Junior level.


-This event is for: selection for JWC, WC, and the last trial of olympic selection.
Number of entries: JWC(2 Men, 2 Ladies, 2 Pairs, 1 Ice dance team), WC(1 Men, 2 Ladies, 1 Pairs, 1 Ice dance team), Olympic Games 2018(1 Men, 2 Ladies, 1 Pairs, 1 Ice dance team)

-Skaters must satisfy minimum TES for those competition (in case the competition needs it) before this event.

-Combined scores of this event and 2017 Ranking competition(which was held in Dec, 2017), 8 ladies, 4 men will be selected as National team for next season.


-Knowned skaters in entries: So youn Park, Na hyun Kim, Dabin Choi, Yelim Kim, Eunsoo Lim, Young You and etc for ladies.
Jun hwan Cha, Jinseo Kim, June hyoung Lee, Si hyeong Lee and etc for men.
Min/Gamelin for ice dance, and Kim/Kam for pairs.


*Entries&Starting Orders up(22nd December) and I will post it seperately, so just scroll down to see the entries!



*Time Schedules (includes practice)
All Time is Korean time, GMT +09:00

3rd January - Official Practice Day
09:00-16:40 Group2(Junior) Ladies
16:25-21:25 Group1(Senior) Ladies
21:40-23:00 Group1(Senior) Men

4th January - Official Practice Day
07:25-08:05 Junior/Senior Ice Dance
08:05-08:45 Senior Pairs
09:00-16:00 Group2(Junior) Ladies
16:00-16:40 Group2(Junior) Men
16:55-21:30 Group1(Senior) Ladies
21:45-23:05 Group1(Senior) Men

5th January - Competition Day 1
06:00-08:15 Group2(Junior) Ladies Practice
08:30-08:50 Group2(Junior) Men Practice
08:50-09:10 Junior/Senior Ice Dance Practice
09:10-09:30 Senior Pairs Practice
10:00-16:50 Group2(Junior) Ladies Short program
16:50-17:26 Group2(Junior) Men Short program
17:40-17:55 Junior, Senior Ice Dance Short dance
17:55-18:10 Senior Pairs Short program
19:00-22:30 Group1(Senior) Ladies Practice
22:45-23:45 Group1(Senior) Men Practice

6th January - Competition Day 2
06:00-08:45 Group1(Senior) Ladies Practice
09:00-09:50 Group1(Senior) Men Practice
10:08-14:10 Group1(Senior) Ladies Short program
14:26-15:38 Group1(Senior) Men Short program
15:54-19:22 Group2(Junior) Ladies Free skating
19:22-20:00 Group2(Junior) Men Free skating
20:00-20:15 Junior Ice Dance Free dance
21:00-22:30 Group1(Senior) Ladies Practice
22:45-23:45 Group1(Senior) Men Practice

7th January - Competition Day 3
06:00-07:50 Group1(Senior) Ladies Practice
07:50-08:40 Group1(Senior) Men Practice
08:50-09:10 Senior Ice Dance Practice
09:10-09:30 Senior Pairs Practice
10:00-10:11 Senior Ice Dance Free dance
10:11-10:24 Senior Pairs Free skating
10:34-13:42 Group1(Senior) Ladies Free skating
13:52-15:08 Group1(Senior) Men Free skating

15:20-15:50 Award Ceremonies
15:50-16:10 Practices for Gala
16:10-17:10 Gala Exhibition ※Junior ladies&men 1st&2nd, Senior ladies&men 1st~3rd, Winners of Ice dance and Pairs category will be invited to gala.



*There could be livestream this time, becuz KSU mentioned about it while referring the time schedules which can be modified due to the tv broadcasts schedules.

Entries (SP&SD Starting Orders)

Released at 22nd December in KSU official webpage. http://www.skating.or.kr/download/download.do?fileName=figure_201712221104448551.xlsx&dir=game


Junior Ice Dance
1 Geun young Park/Geon woo Park
*I heard that they are siblings, and new team. The boy is also compete here at junior men category.


Senior Pairs
1 Kyueun Kim/Alex Kangchan Kam


Senior Ice Dance
1 Yura Min/Alexander Gamelin


Group1(Senior) Men
1 Jinseo Kim
2 Sung hoon Park
3 Jaeseok Kyung
4 Geon hyoung An

5 Se jong Byun
6 Young hyun Cha
7 Jun hwan Cha
8 Si hyeong Lee
9 June hyoung Lee


Group2(Junior) Men
1 Hyun woo Kim
2 Dong hyuk Lee
3 Geon woo Park
4 Hyun Kim
5 Hangil Kim


Group1(Senior) Ladies
1 Ji yun Lee
2 Eun bi Ko
3 Hyun su Jang
4 Yu bin Cho
5 Soo min Kang

6 Chae eun Noh
7 Yena Kwon
8 Ji won Lee
9 Yu rim Lee
10 Sena Kim

11 Nahyun Kim
12 Ye eun Seo
13 Haejin Kim
14 Mi seon Park
15 Suh hyun Son

16 Hyun soo Choi
17 Seung been Yu
18 Gyo hee Jeon
19 Seo young Lee
20 Bo young Kim
21 Su been Jeon

22 So eun Choi
23 Hyun soo Lee
24 Haein Lee
25 Sohyun An
26 So youn Park
27 Yu jin Choi

28 Ji hun To
29 Hanul Kim
30 Dabin Choi
31 Eunsoo Lim
32 Yelim Kim
33 Young You


Group2(Junior) Ladies
1 Yebin Yoon
2 Sebin Baek
3 Eunseo Seo
4 Damin Kim
5 Haeri Jeon
6 Jieun Shin

7 Ye won Moon
8 Ji hye Park
9 Kum kyung Baek
10 Chae ryung Kim
11 Sarang Park
12 Yun jeong Do

13 Minji Bae
14 Dain Woo
15 Hyun soo Kim
16 Yeon woo Kang
17 Inae Lee
18 Jinseo Kim

19 Jae hyun Baek
20 Seo hyun Kim
21 Miso Lee
22 Do yeon Kim(b)
23 Hyo jin Kim
24 Yeji Cho

25 Gyuri Kim
26 Min young Lee
27 Yi been Jeon
28 Seo young Yoon
29 Sera Hong
30 Eun sol Jang

31 Jimin Lee
32 Yi hwan Kwon
33 Su been Ji
34 Jeong eun Jeon
35 Li hyun Kim
36 Min ji Jeong

37 Min seung Kim
38 Soon jung Ko
39 Boin Moon
40 Hye seung Chi
41 Sung hyun Yoon
42 Seung yeon Cho

43 Si won Lee
44 Ji o Lee
45 Minji Ji
46 Do yeon Kim(a)
47 Suzi Sung
48 Yuna Song

49 Jee won Bang
50 Min kyeol Kim
51 Ji yun Jeong
52 Doeun Kim
53 Seo young Wi
54 Eun seo Lee

Standing Points for Olympic team

As you all know, Olympic team members will be decided right after Nationals, by combining total scores of three events(Summer event, Ranking Competition, and Nationals)

After two trials,
Standing Points for Olympic team till now is:
Ladies (2 tickets)
1 DABIN CHOI 350.16
2 HANUL KIM 333.35
3 SOHYUN AN 319.93
4 YUJIN CHOI 315.13
5 SOYOUN PARK 311.78
6 SUH HYUN SON 278.57
7 SEOYOUNG LEE 261.87
8 NAHYUN KIM 243.90
9 HAEJIN KIM 242.94
10 SENA KIM 165.20
11 HYUNSU JANG 141.64
12 KYOUNGYEON SHIM 98.61 - not participating after first event, so she's out.

Men (1 ticket)
1 JUNE HYOUNG LEE 459.12
2 JUNHWAN CHA 431.58
3 JINSEO KIM 410.78
4 SEJONG BYUN 347.00

Ice dance (1 ticket)
1 YURA MIN / GAMELIN ALEXANDER 287.69

Pairs (1 ticket)
1 KYUEUN KIM / KANGCHAN KAM 266.18
2 SU YEON KIM / HYUNGTAE KIM 145.70 - not participating after first event, so they're out. (I heard that they are dismissed)

Thanks Haley Shin! I was wondering when the Korean Nationals will take place

What happened to Minji Ji and Themistocles Leftheris? They split too?

Nirti said:

Thanks Haley Shin! I was wondering when the Korean Nationals will take place

What happened to Minji Ji and Themistocles Leftheris? They split too?

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Yes they were
btw Minji still competes as single skater in domestic competitions.
Here she competes in junior ladies. (starting order #45)
I adore her passion to skate

thanks Hailey for gathering all the info and organising them so well once again!! another competition with possible heartbreaks :sad21: good luck everyone!

For the ladies, I think Dabin is a lock; even though she URs, she’s still pretty consistent and doesn’t make big mistakes.

From the standings, it looks like the remaining spot will eventually go to Hanul. But I think both Sohyun and Soyoun still have a chance. I don’t think Yujin will be scoring as high as those two.

For the men, it’ll probably go to June Hyoung. While I do remember that he is very prone to meltdowns, he’s been looking solid so far this season so I think he could continue that momentum here. But Junhwan still has a tiny chance, if he’s clean and if June Hyoung makes many mistakes.

I feel like at this point Junehyoung really deserves it and I'm happy for him though of course he has to seal the deal. His Bohemian rhapsody program is one of my favorites with that rocking air guitar. My only hope is that Junhwan goes to Junior Worlds.

For the ladies, I hope Dabin worked out her boot issues and injuries to get those 3-3s back or else I'm kind of majorly worried for her performance at the Olympics.hwell: I really enjoy Sohyun and Soyoun so I'm kind of sad to see them possibly not go. Rooting for Eunsoo, Yelim, and YY to slaay (and for Jihun to get her jumps together because she is so lovely in everything else), but hoping for a Eunsoo and YY team for Junior Worlds to try to get 3 spots for next year. Also another million tears for seeing no Yunkyung on the list once again. Her injury must have been really serious?:sad21: Does anyone have any news on her?

lol almost forgot this was a thing... Good luck to all the skaters, may they be healthy, screw ksu, etc

Kara said:

I feel like at this point Junehyoung really deserves it and I'm happy for him though of course he has to seal the deal. His Bohemian rhapsody program is one of my favorites with that rocking air guitar. My only hope is that Junhwan goes to Junior Worlds.

For the ladies, I hope Dabin worked out her boot issues and injuries to get those 3-3s back or else I'm kind of majorly worried for her performance at the Olympics.hwell: I really enjoy Sohyun and Soyoun so I'm kind of sad to see them possibly not go. Rooting for Eunsoo, Yelim, and YY to slaay (and for Jihun to get her jumps together because she is so lovely in everything else), but hoping for a Eunsoo and YY team for Junior Worlds to try to get 3 spots for next year. Also another million tears for seeing no Yunkyung on the list once again. Her injury must have been really serious?:sad21: Does anyone have any news on her?

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Cmon Eunsoo! Defend your championship! :2thumbs:

There will be Rafella Locatelli(ITA) and Ricardo Olavarrieta(MEX) for technical panels for this event, as news said. Both are ISU judges. Maybe they're for tech controller and tech specialist?? Never heard of them, but quite new panels for domestic competition. We will see how it affects the results.

Did the KBS strike finally end or is this also not going to be televised

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Did the KBS strike finally end or is this also not going to be televised

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They are still on strike, we have to see if they decide to do live stream this event despite of lack of work forces, or other broadcast station decide to do it (and I hope for it), at least this is very important competition.:noshake:

Hailey Shin said:

There will be Rafella Locatelli(ITA) and Ricardo Olavarrieta(MEX) for technical panels for this event, as news said. Both are ISU judges. Maybe they're for tech controller and tech specialist?? Never heard of them, but quite new panels for domestic competition. We will see how it affects the results.

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Do you know who is the third person on the Tech Panel? By any chance Konstantin Kostin? There were rumours that Locatelli-Olavarrieta-Kostin was going to be one of the panels for the Olympics.

Andrea82 said:

Do you know who is the third person on the Tech Panel? By any chance Konstantin Kostin? There were rumours that Locatelli-Olavarrieta-Kostin was going to be one of the panels for the Olympics.

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hmmmm I donno about third person, the article only mentioned those two. :noshake: anyway if the rumor is true, then KSU sure prepared a lot for this event...

Hailey Shin I love your introduction to the competition

Live streaming by Naver Sports for senior competitions:

http://m.sports.naver.com/general/gamecenter/etc/index.nhn?tab=cheer&gameId=20180106FIGURE1 (phone)

or

http://sports.naver.com/tv/index.nhn?category=etc&gameId=20180106FIGURE1 (desktop)


ETD: Looks like they will start the streaming on January 6th, 13:00 KST.

This youtube channel are providing fanvids of official practice day1!
Now, junior ladies and junior men's are being uploaded.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBBM6I8aFFYHQ011WUsgoWw

Here's Seo young Wi's nice and clean run through, 12 years old girl who won the last ranking competition's junior title and here came to won junior national title.
https://youtu.be/PgF85whbzrY

And don't forget honorable mention to this girl, 13 years old Seung been Yu, very beautiful and emotional performer. Really hope she nailed it in competition, just like as she did at practice. :luv17:https://youtu.be/uykSNrqBbSQ

The fan from the live rink periscoped Eunsoo, Yelim and Young's first day official practice!

Seems like Eunsoo's back in pretty good shape, jumped well all over her free skating run through, and very very nice jumps they were! 3Lz-3T huge 2A-3T clean as a whistle!
Yelim changed her lalaland music ost cuts a little bit, and also nicely done with 3Lz(rippon)-3T and 2A-3T. She skipped few jumps intentionally though.
Young did short program run through, unlike others, and did great job with 3Lz-3T, 3F and 2A. Very nice.

Looks like it would be a hell competition towards junior worlds tickets.

Here's the rewind-url of live periscope of three! https://www.pscp.tv/w/bRtvUTFheWpWb...LWJ7crlBAlwCvx0dNoS9cirBV3Z61o3avdO0GgXekBAej