At the 9th Harbin Asian Winter Games, which opened on February 7, Choi Hong-hoon, 62, the new president of the Korean Skiing and Snowboarding Association, was appointed to lead the South Korean delegation.

Choi Hong-hoon, 62

On the 21st local time, according to the Korean Sports Association and the Korean Skiing and Snowboarding Association, Choi Hongxun, president of the Skiing and Snowboarding Association, will lead the team of athletes to the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games. Choi Hong-hoon, the head of the Korean Ski and Snowboard Association, recently participated in the election of the president of the 25th Korean Skiing and Snowboarding Association, and after being elected as the president of the association, he accepted the important responsibility of being the head of the Korean delegation to the Asian Winter Games.

In his inaugural speech as president of the association, Choi Hongxun made up his mind and said, "At the Harbin Asian Winter Games and the 2026 Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics, the national athletes will do their best to achieve good results. ”

South Korea's short track speed skating team's Choi Min-jeong will compete in the Harbin Asian Winter Games and try to defend her title

The South Korean delegation to the Harbin Asian Winter Games will hold a departure ceremony at 3 pm local time on the 24th at the Olympic Hall on the 1st floor of the Olympic Park Hotel in Songpa-gu, Seoul, and Yoo In-kun, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea will also attend.

The 9th Harbin Asian Winter Games will be held in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province from February 7 to 14. South Korea plans to send a delegation of more than 200 people to the Asian Winter Games to compete in six major sports: ice, skiing, biathlon, curling, ice hockey, and mountain skiing.

The first Asian Winter Games were held in Sapporo, Japan in 1986, and this Asian Winter Games will be held again for the first time in eight years since the 2017 Sapporo Asian Winter Games. South Korea won 16 golds, 18 silvers and 16 bronzes at the 2017 Sapporo Asian Winter Games, ranking second after Japan (27 golds, 21 silvers and 26 bronzes), and is expected to compete for medals with Japan and China at the Asian Winter Games.