Can the Korean men's and women's curling teams that will join hands in the 2025 Asian Winter Games win the championship for the first time in 18 years?

Can the Korean men's and women's curling teams win the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games for the first time in 18 years? On the 12th, the South Korean women's curling team composed of Kim Eun-ji, Kim Min-ji, Xue Ye-ji, Xue Ye-eun, and Kim so-ji defeated the Philippine team 11-3 in the 7th round of the women's qualifiers held at the Curling Arena in Pingfang District, Harbin. The Korean women's curling team, which is currently on a seven-game winning streak, even lost the final match against Qatar on the morning of the 13th, but locked up the first place in the qualifiers and reached the semifinals. Since the 2007 Asian Winter Games in Changchun, the Korean women's curling team has once again challenged for the Asian Winter Games championship after 18 years.

On the 9th, the Korean players who won the Korean team and the Japanese team in the women's curling round-robin match of the Asian Winter Games were very happy.

The South Korean women's curling team, currently ranked 9th in the world, is rated as the most champion of any team competing in the tournament, as they are ranked better than their main rivals China (19th) and Japan (47th).

The Korean women's curling team has set the goal of "winning the championship perfectly" in this Asian Winter Games, that is, they are ready to win all eight matches in the preliminary round, enter the knockout round as the first place, and then win two more games to win the championship. So far, the Korean women's curling team, which has won seven consecutive victories, is close to achieving its first goal.

In the women's curling group of the Asian Winter Games, there will be 9 countries (regions) in the round-robin tournament, and the top 1~4 teams will directly enter the semi-finals. Then the first and fourth places will compete for a ticket to the finals. According to the Korean media, any team is an opponent that can be "easily beaten", but in order to run the tournament more easily, it is better to go to the semi-finals as the first place and face the fourth place in the semi-finals, and they have done so in the first round at the moment.

On the 11th, the Asian Winter Games curling men's round-robin group A was played by the South Korean team against the Kazakhstan team

The South Korean men's curling team won the first place in Group A of the group stage of this Asian Winter Games and directly entered the semi-finals. South Korean media said that the most important thing is that since entering this competition, the South Korean men's curling team has shown its best competitive state with perfect curling for several days. In the first game of the group stage, they defeated the Philippines, who were formed by the Swiss national team and are considered the favorites to win the tournament, 6-1, and then won four consecutive victories to top the group.

The Korean men's curling team is aiming to win the championship again in 18 years since the 2007 Asian Winter Games. The Korean men's curling team, which is composed of players born in 2001~2003, will enjoy preferential policies for military service if they can win the championship. South Korea's men's curling team will face the winner between Hong Kong, the second place in Group B, and Kazakhstan, the third place in Group A, in the semi-finals.

The South Korean men's curling team is most likely to face the host Chinese team (ranked 19th in the world), who are evaluated as the most powerful teams in this tournament. The Korean men's and women's curling teams, which both reached the semi-finals, will challenge for a place in the final at the Curling Arena in Pingfang District on the evening of the 13th. If you can succeed, you will be able to sprint towards the goal of winning the Asian Winter Games championship again after 18 years in the curling men's and women's team finals on the morning of the 14th.